07-20-2010, 07:48 PM
(07-20-2010, 07:24 PM)--Pete Wrote: Kidding aside, she has done an excellent job of demonstrating both her ignorance and her stupidity. She might be able to get a political makeover and learn to fake sincerity. She might be tutored to the point where her ignorance is tolerable. But there's nothing to be done about her stupidity. Do we really want yet another moronic 'leader', or have we had enough of them in the past fifty years?This is an interesting example, of the other topic in this thread. Is she really moronic, or has she been portrayed that way by the same extreme biases shown in the JournOList? Before she got stupid, she did run Alaska, and people there seemed to like what she was doing. Where she has been unpopular has been with the established old guard of both Republican and Democratic parties. McCain chose her to win a portion of the conservative electorate he was losing, however, they didn't support her, or even defend her against the orchestrated continual campaign to impugn her, and her family. The Presidential election devolved into a Palin vs Obama battle, and whose upstart fire brand was more presidential. And in a battle between a strong right of center rural woman, and a strong black left of center urban man, the electorate deferred to the better credentials of Obama. Oh, yeah, McCain was running. Wasn't he? I don't know of any other recent Vice Presidential candidate who's had a tabloid journalist move into the home next door to grab into the sensationalist gold mine.