Posted on 02/14/2010 4:44:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin may very well be the worst presidential candidate in the history of U.S. elections. It’s not because she’s a Conservative and I’m a Liberal. It’s because she’s plain unqualified to manage a game of “Civilization IV,” much less the political affairs of the office of the president.
It is a mystery to me, to be honest, why she has so many supporters, because anyone with a vocabulary larger than the words “you” and “betcha” understands she rivals former President George W. Bush in literacy.
For those of us that don’t watch Fox News, this was illustrated perfectly at the National Tea Party last week. The Associated Press story printed across the nation started with the following line: “Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama ...”
Therein lies the problem. Enthusiasm will get absolutely nothing done in international politics nowadays. Palin would make an absolutely terrible president. She has a lot of enthusiasm, I’ll give her that. She knows how to get all folksy and talk to an audience like my mother. The problem with this is that my mother would probably make a terrible president.
For some reason, there has been an intellectual backlash against Obama. The term intellectual was bounced around during the 2008 campaign in a derogatory fashion.
Personally, I would love to be called an intellect, but it seems to play directly into the conservative movement of anger and hate. The conservative movement, ever since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has considered the Democratic Party elitist and for the intellectuals.
The backlash could be attributed to the lower education standards in conservative states. In 2006, the Census Bureau released a report detailing the percent of people in each state with a bachelor’s degree or more. A key statistic behind the highest 15 states: each one of them Obama won in 2008.
I don’t think that’s a coincidence. The most intellectual states want an intellectual president. But the question begs, why doesn’t everyone? Shouldn’t we elect the smartest capable person to the most powerful office in the land?
Typically, it’s hard to judge people based on their educational alma maters. However, every president since Lyndon B. Johnson has been to a very prestigious university, ignoring the brief period an actor with terrible leadership qualities led the country between 1981 and 1989. It shows having a good education is necessary to even become the president, much less become a good president. Bush was actually a Harvard grad, if you can believe that.
Since her brief stint in the world of academia, it seems unlikely that her political prowess has sharpened her understanding of the world. Her most recent gaffes are far more embarrassing, as they show her distinct lack of understanding of the nation’s political system.
Four days after her resignation as Alaska governor, she famously referred to the non-existent Department of Law in Washington in an interview with ABC News. Mere weeks before the election, she completely melted down in a CBS interview with Katie Couric, insisting she reads all of the newspapers. In that same interview, she could not name a Supreme Court ruling other than Roe v. Wade.
Perhaps her most famous quote from that interview was her response to a Couric question regarding the $700-billion bailout. “But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy.” A 4-year-old playing Mad Libs can construct a more competent sentence.
This week alone featured her using her hand as a notepad at a Tea Party convention and incorrectly characterizing fellow right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard” as satire on Fox News Sunday.
It’s fairly obvious she is far too unqualified to become leader of the once-free world. Not only is she about as politically savvy as the lipstick she puts on a pig, her credentials just don’t stack up. Obama was again targeted by the Conservatives for being unqualified and not prepared for the job. He served in the Illinois Senate for seven years, followed by a term as the junior Illinois senator in Washington.
Palin, meanwhile, hasn’t had a position of national prominence. Her highest office was the position of Alaska governor, and she resigned that position after two-and-a-half years. Her previous international political experience involved looking at Russia from her house. She cannot, and should not, be expected to deliver a speech to the United Nations without even knowing Kenya’s location. She could start a war with the country of Africa without even knowing it is more impossible to win that war than our two current wars.
I only get one column a week, and I’ll be going well over my word count again this week. I can’t even discuss half of the stuff that makes her a terrible candidate. However, presented with the aforementioned proof, I have to ask her supporters one question. Why, exactly, do you support this woman?
Yup... Sarah ran a state, Obama just runs his mouth.
We can all think of 2-3 others who are probably worse candidates but we never hear about them. Either “they” fear her the most or they have chosen to poison her well first and will get around to the others later.
That’s what primaries are for - to see which ones actually have appeal to the voters and not which ones PR campaigns can choose for us.
What exactly has he ever done do be considered an intellectual?
I’m a Liberal. ........................ That’s all folks, nothing new here.
Satire ping ?
What an effing Rahm Emanuel.
It’s fairly obvious she is far too unqualified to become leader of the once-free world.
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She has a birth certificate, and both her parents were US citizens AND married. To eachother even.
Resigning from governorship does bother me some, though.
Perhaps a Freudian slip?
Boy is this guy an ARSE. Must be tough to be perfect, like him.
“What a dumb - F**K, there ARE NO presidential candidates as yet.”
That’s where I stopped reading. What an idiot.
The once-free world. That pretty much says it all.
We're not a total dictatorship yet and by golly, by gum, we're going to do our darn'dest to keep it from becoming one.
You betcha.
“It’s not because she’s a Conservative and I’m a Liberal.”
Somehow, I don’t believe it’s because she’s a conservative and the writer is a liberal. Somehow, I believe the writer is lying through his or her teeth.
“She has far more experience than BO.”
LOL. I don’t think this is really what you meant to say.
Ha haaaa!!! Good catch.
And she probably knows that people in Austria speak German, not Austrian.
“LOL. I don’t think this is really what you meant to say.”
Prior to last January the biggest thing he had done was run a campaign. In reality he didn’t even run that, just showed up and read the TOTUS.
“No kidding!! I am sure this MORON thinks Carter was the MOST Supercalafragilistic president that EVER lived.”
You have to remember, this stupid kid had not even been born
when RR, and Peanut Brain served as POTUS.
Your OPINION that you present as proof is a bunch of BS!!!
We are not frothing at the mouth, wishing we were psuedo-intellectuals like Tony Cardone - the liberal Obama lover & Katie Couric - the cheerleader. Don't flatter yourself with that notion.
Sarah Palin is a common sense conservative who has real values, just like the rest of us! We did not attend Harvard or the other 'prestigious universities' in order to be brain-washed with the liberal tripe that you value so highly!
He says her “recent” gaffes, and then gives examples from her first national televised interview, which certainly wasn’t a crowning acheivement for her, but was almost 2 years ago.
His only other example was from last summer. Although he seems to think writing on her hand was a “gaffe”.
Also, he gets her mixed up with Tina Fey.
Just who sets the educational standards? Why I think its the teachers unions and socialists.
Same Left Wing talking Points and all Refuted.
If Sarah Palin is a bad choice, not smart, yada yada,
why does the Left wing keep posting this BS if she is
no threat.
But Sarah is a threat to Obama and the person who can win
in 2012.
Mitt, Huck, Pawlenty, and that ilk are the back benchers
and no threat to Obama thus get a free ride from the Left.
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