“Palin just doesn’t have (or at least hasn’t shown yet)the intellectual horsepower to compete for the mother of all political prizes. Period”
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Utter nonsense, on several levels.
Let’s start with the fact that the bereft of intellect Obama, just won the White House.
Obama is the proof that intellect is not required
Obama might be a complete moron - in fact let’s start there - he is a complete moron. But, we don’t administer IQ tests to the presidential candidates. Palin might be a genious. Maybe she scored 1600 on her SAT’s - it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t come off when she speaks.
To the middle 2/3 of the electorate it doesn’t matter what the candidate says. All that matters is how well he articulates it says it and how good he looks when he delivers it.
Millions of used cars are sold every year to people that either didn’t need a used car or didn’t want the car they ended up buying. But they still bought it. 18 months from now were all going to paying for a car nobody will remember wanting. That’s politics in America today, yesterday and tomorrow.