Why is it that people are always complaining about the Washington Insiders, but now we have a VP Candidate who is NOT an insider, and she gets slammed.
Bonnie, that’s an excellent point. People bitch about Washington, eColi is more popular than Congress and yet the only person in the race who is not a Senator gets slammed for her lack of foreign policy experience. I’m wondering what foreign policy directives Clinton and Carter developed when they ran Arkansas and Georgia. I don’t recall ever hearing about them at the time – and they were running at the top of the ticket.
And the whole “stupid” business – right, she ran successfully against an entrenched imcumbent of her own party, was elected governor, and has maintained an 80% approval rating just because she’s cute.
Palin has proved she can run a state. Obama’s only executive experience has been on the board of the Annenburg Challenge, and all he did was succeed in wasting money. He couldn’t handle $100 million – great, let’s give him trillions to play with!
Many intellectuals are pleasant, charming people. They have an tendency to mistake verbal glibness for wisdom. I doubt most of them could run a car wash without making a complete hash of it.
