[Tallguy]

For her detractors, both conservative and liberal, she is uncouth, unschooled, a hick, anti-science and anti-intellectual, an upstart, and a religious fanatic.

There's the key right there. With the extra premium that elites tend to put on education -- particulary professional education -- the reaction to Palin becomes understandable. Combine this with a generalized suspicion of practicing-Christians, and you have your answer.

[hinckley buzzard]

No, that's just a rationalization. Given that lefties hate Palin just as they hate anyone with healthy values, they will highlight anything to denigrate her. The left doesn't care at all about education. They would have supported obama if he had a high school education from Kenya. Made him into a populist hero and a turd world miracle, displaying how Socialist Man doesn't need bourgeois credentials.

[rexgrossmansonlyfan]

What’s funny about it is I don’t consider her outly religious. Yes she does talk about her faith but she doesn’t do it all the time.

She is more schooled for being a leader than Obama is.