Sarah Palin's a Brainiac

[Tex]

Signed, a feminist Democrat editor.

It's difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin's “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS's Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I'm agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...-a-brainiac/1/

[TripletDaddy]

Congrats. One week before the election and we have finally come to a consensus....the Republican VP nominee is, in fact, NOT an idiot.

Great pick!

[YOhio]

That's a pretty cool site. This article was a good read.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...so-long-obama/

[RedHeadGal]

Just before I saw this, I had read Richard Cohen's column from the paper today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1

wherein he opines about why conservatives have gotten behind Palin when they didn't get behind Harriet Miers. (His main point being that Miers had questionable ideology whereas Palin seems more unquestionably right-wing).

But your point seems to be to point out, as others have stated, that she's not an idiot. I add my congrats to that. But I don't think that's whats bothering people. It's more--as Cohen and others have expressed it--that she's out of her depth. After 8 years with Dubya and entering more troubled times, we are keenly concerned with competence (as we should be).

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by RedHeadGal

Just before I saw this, I had read Richard Cohen's column from the paper today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1

wherein he opines about why conservatives have gotten behind Palin when they didn't get behind Harriet Miers. (His main point being that Miers had questionable ideology whereas Palin seems more unquestionably right-wing).

But your point seems to be to point out, as others have stated, that she's not an idiot. I add my congrats to that. But I don't think that's whats bothering people. It's more--as Cohen and others have expressed it--that she's out of her depth. After 8 years with Dubya and entering more troubled times, we are keenly concerned with competence (as we should be).

See, this is the argument I just don't get. If Palin and Bush are out of their depth, how can Obama not be so also? He just makes people feel soooooo good?

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

See, this is the argument I just don't get. If Palin and Bush are out of their depth, how can Obama not be so also? He just makes people feel soooooo good?

Politics is all about perception, not reality.

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

Politics is all about perception, not reality.

Well, at least you are honest.

Apparently French President Sarkozy's perception isn't as lauditory as MSNBC's and CNN's and The New York Times' and the Los Angeles Times' and . . . . .

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

Well, at least you are honest.

I try.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by RedHeadGal

Just before I saw this, I had read Richard Cohen's column from the paper today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...d=opinionsbox1

wherein he opines about why conservatives have gotten behind Palin when they didn't get behind Harriet Miers. (His main point being that Miers had questionable ideology whereas Palin seems more unquestionably right-wing).

But your point seems to be to point out, as others have stated, that she's not an idiot. I add my congrats to that. But I don't think that's whats bothering people. It's more--as Cohen and others have expressed it--that she's out of her depth. After 8 years with Dubya and entering more troubled times, we are keenly concerned with competence (as we should be).

And further, that she's so very far in over her head; and what that implies about McCain's judgment.


Redhead, if you don't mind, help me with a political discussion from elsewhere: Do you think the PUMA phenomenon is a myth?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

See, this is the argument I just don't get. If Palin and Bush are out of their depth, how can Obama not be so also? He just makes people feel soooooo good?

The thought with Palin and Bush is that they are simpletons.....or, to use a recent descriptive...bubbleheads.

Nobody thinks Obama is intellectually devoid, only that he is inexperienced.

I think that is the difference. just my opinion.