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Notes from The Sarahdigm: My latest at Conservatives4Palin...

Posted on Monday, October 5, 2009 at 01:10PM by Registered CommenterC. Brooks Kurtz Bookmark and Share

Allow myself to quote myself:

This is nothing against Miller or other conservative pundits who’ve qualified their admiration of Palin with a knock against her smarts. Like various urban legends, you hear enough conservatives you respect say “..but she needs to do her homework…” and suddenly you being to believe it and repeat it. Even though technically true of any person wanting to pursue the Presidency, it has no bearing on why or why not people support Gov. Palin and whatever future ambitions she has. Not only would I take Gov. Palin in a game of H-O-R-S-E with Pres. Obama, I’d also put money on her in a game of Scrabble or Trivial Pursuit matched up against the Ivy-educated, worldly President who thought “Austrian” was a language while adding 7 stars to American flag.

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read your post on C4P, excellent.

I saw the Miller segment on BOR. Both were semi-supportive, but Miller was reserved way too much. The woman is a genius, and God threw in good looks for laughs . . .
October 5, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBill in Baltimore
Thanks Bill - I rarely watch O'Reilly anymore and I've grown tired of his constant baiting of Palin trying to get her on The Factor. His show is still extremely popular, but it is a shell of its former self.
October 5, 2009 | Registered CommenterC. Brooks Kurtz
I'm not as convinced as you that Palin poseses anything much beyond an avergage intellect, but the truth of the matter is that the modern conservative sales pitch relies a lot more on common sense than on intellectual prowess, and Palin has got that locked down tight. One thing I will say is that I think Palin purposefully downplays her intellect, like Bush before her (she also likes to say 'nucular'), in order to appear more folksy and also to get her opponents to underestimate her. So that is to say she's probably more intelligent than she appears to be, but just the same I'd give Obama 10-to-1 odds over Palin in a game of Scrabble. I just think she's a lot more likely than he to know how to change a tire.

So do I think she'd be a better President than Obama? Surely, but then again so would a tree stump. I'm not as convinced as you that she is at all electable. Without knowing much more about his take on cold-hard policy than Palin's (and we know very little about either), my money is on Tim Pawlenty in 2012.


I remember during the 2008 GOP Primaries, when I (like you) was a big supporter of Fred Thompson, and I just didn't understand why all the other conservatives didn't see it. That's what I feel like today with Palin, except I 'm on the other side of the equation.
October 6, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEric

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