I’m sick and tired of Palin-bashing. So much of it, left AND right (J Rubin being the latest conservative example), all based on an incorrect assessment of her ‘intellect’.
She doesn’t talk like a Harvard graduate.
SO WHAT?!?!
I didn’t even finish college, but just reading on my own I’ve come up with a fairly deep understanding of the world’s problems and what the best solutions might be. I’d debate with anyone, anytime, in front of anyone and everyone, on those topics and on domestic economic policy too. I understand how the world works, owned a multimillion dollar business with 25 employees, achieved national notoriety in my field including nominations for national awards (no, I”m not telling you what my field is 
) and was a public speaker as a part of my job.
Now, during the debate I’m beggin’ for, I might not sound like a college graduate myself. I might drop the G from lots of words, like beggin’. I might resort to redneck metaphors. And I might need an occasional clarifying boost before I”m up to speed on some arcane element of the impenetrable fog of American wonkage…
But I know, because I can do it, that it does NOT take a postgraduate degree from an Ivy League school to understand this stuff. It’s just like Journalism– they try to make it seem complex and mysterious, only to build themselves up in the public eye as some sort of experts. BUT THEY”RE NOT. Journalism is ‘see it, write it down, who, what, when, where, why.” NOT COMPLICATED.
Policy isn’t either, when you approach it with PRINCIPLES IN PLACE. Follow your principles and you won’t get into any deep deep muddy places.
It’s the principl-free ‘expertise’ that I have come to DEPLORE, because it isn’t transparent. IT CANNOT BE, because if it were, the public would know these people are all morons. So they conceal their mediocrity behind a screen of ‘shades of grey’, levels of complexity.
Gawd that makes me mad.
Sarah Palin is ready for anything. She’s smart, tough, principled and unafraid. That’s OVERQUALIFIED, in my book.
