There is no burden of intellectual superficiality to her, as there is with Barack Obama, a man who has shown remarkable poise and oratory talents when he is properly handled, but wobbles when put in the hot seat without his notes.
These are two of the things we like about her the most. We're tired of intellectual superficiality, which leads to things like "creative ambiguity" -- which solves nothing. She may wobble in the hotseat without notes -- Obama will stutter with "uh... uh..." and throw out platitudes and "creative ambiguity" -- sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Obama is the culmination -- the end result of that kind of politics. It leads to government being all things to all people and we've seen where that road goes.
Palin's values are grounded in the founding values of this nation, and at least half of us hope she or someone like her will lead the country back to those roots.
Remember the movie "Dave", where Kevin Kline's character is an impersonator (Dave Kovic) who looks just like the President Bill Mitchell. Dave ends up "playing" the role of the president when Mitchell goes into a coma. Dave brings in his accountant friend (Murray) to help find money in the federal budget to fund a program to help the homeless, and in the end, Dave does a pretty decent job at being a president.
Sarah Palin is kind of a female "Dave" of sorts. Jimmy Carter was a nuclear scientist, yet he felt he had to personally review all requests to use the White House tennis court. Bill Clinton won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, yet he thought that people would believe him when he said he didn't inhale marijuana smoke, or have sex with a lowly intern in the White House. And just look at all of the "smart" people who got the world's financial house in such a mess with Collateralized debt obligations (CDO's) and credit default swaps.
Sarah Palin might not be "educated" smart, but I believe she is "common sense" smart.
I am ready to vote for Sarah Palin for President. She can do it.
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she will never be president though, so the comparison is moot.
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