The Irrefutable Stupidity of Sarah Palin (Cenk @ Huffington Post, Includes 4 Videos)

[ihavenobias]

Big News:

By Cenk Uygur

From time to time, I'll get into a about whether Sarah Palin is actually stupid or if liberals are just hopelessly biased against her. They claim this bias comes from the fact that liberals are scared of her electability, her charm, her looks, her femininity, her Christianity, her ability connect to the common man and her overall wonderfulness. So, the theory is that we have all collectively decided that she is the best Republican candidate in some secret liberal meeting and are conspiring against her because we are afraid of how brilliant and electable she really is.

Now, there are a couple of problems with this theory. There are no opinion leaders on the left with Rush Limbaugh-like authority who can command all other progressives to think the same thing and use the same arguments against one person. In other words, we all think she is stupid because she is in fact stupid, not because some liberal cabal told us to think that.

How come we don't call Newt Gingrich stupid? Or Dick Cheney or Kay Bailey Hutchinson or Elizabeth Dole or Dennis Hastert? And the list goes on and on of heinous and deplorable right-wingers who are not stupid. We don't make those charges against those people, because as much as we might not agree with them or like them, we know that they are not dullards. They're all clever in their own way. Mitt Romney is greasy, Michael Steele is a clown and Tom DeLay is dirty, but we don't go after their mental acuity like we do with Sarah Palin because they're not as dumb as her (not even Steele).

So, finally we get to the evidence. I thought I'd just do it here and be done with it. Then I can just point people to this post from now on and end this senseless argument.

Now, there are a million examples of this, but I thought I'd go with three knockout punches here. In the first video, we have the classic Bush Doctrine answer, where she does not know the basic foreign policy of the Republican president at the time. How could she possibly be running for vice president and not know this? The only thing more unconscionable is the sad excuses her supporters make for this terribly botched answer...

which includes the 3 Video Examples that show Palin's irrefutable stupidity.

[napi21]

1. I don't blame Sarah for running for VP. I blaame the idiots in the McNut campaign

for picking such a person. I dont know that she's overall stupid, but I find it hard to believe she ever got elected Gov. She is so completely unaware of political facts, Fed. problems that are going to have to be resolved in the foreseeable future, and seems averse to anything that requires actual hard work! I'/m positive there were people who tried to imerse her into all the top current events and at the very least, what the Pub positions were on all of them, but she didn't want to do all that work! I'm catorizing her as lazy! Lazy unless it directly benefits her personally! Money, power, status, etc.

[nykym]

2. Which is the classic example of a

Griffter, con woman, liar, cheat, fraud, crook, fixer, scammer, swindler, hypocrite, wheeler-Dealer, lowest of the low, politician, need I go on.

[jgraz]

10. I blame her. She's too clueless to know how clueless she is.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. I am, indeed, scared of her ...

"...electability, ... her Christianity, her ability connect to the common man..."

It means we might soon be ruled by a deranged wingnut who enjoys high popularity.

It means that the 'common man' in the United States is stupid, mean, and greedy enough to be a threat to the continuation of Democracy.

It means that the US is probably too stupid to live.

Just had to add a bit from the link:

Bill O'Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again, do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership, I'm not saying that that has to be me.

[JohnWxy]

13. yeah, she's a hard worker. Bailed a year and half early from her previous job.

[vinylsolution]

4. If Texas or Dixie ever does secede....

.... she'll be on the ballot for President of Glennbeckistan.

The rest of us deserve better, as do those rational folks in red states.

[TrogL]

5. I'm going to try and parse this.

boldface Actually answers the question
strikeout filler
italics non-sequiter

Here's the important snippet from the original question - "smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough"

I believe that I am because I have common sense ...

Fair enough, even if you can't get two people to agree on what "sense" is or declare what commonality there might be. Most people parse "common sense" as the exact opposite of "intellectual".

...and I have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other American values,

...without bothering to state what any of those values are and ignoring her blinding hypocrisy in implementing those values. There's enough weasel words and modifiers in there to choke a horse. How about a nice, incisive "My values are American values"? Anyway...

...and I believe that what Americans are seeking is

(time for the liberal insults, drag out the sound bites)

not the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but

(back on topic)

...hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles.

Americans are could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership,

The question was about mental ability.

I'm not saying that that has to be me.

That's "incisive"??? :shrug:

[pleah]

6. K&R The first time Satan Sara opened her mouth I knew she was

a complete idiot. I have never understood how any woman with a brain could even consider voting for her for anything.

[TrogL]

7. That's not her base

Her base are authoritarian types looking for a no-think, do-what-i-say leader. All she has to do is look pretty and put out the right coded sound-bytes.

[pauldg0]

16. I cringed the first time I heard her...

I knew something was wrong after hearing her first statements...I wondered how McCain could have possibly risked our national security with such a moron. I've since wondered how people get so geeked about her. They too must be lacking normal reasoning, possibly due to a wrinkle in one of their brain lobes.

I am a converted Republican who can reason appropriately; thank God!! She is about as dumb as a kite!!!

[ihavenobias]

20. Exactly. Cringe-worthy is the perfect way to describe it. n/t

[clear eye]

8. Unfortunately as GWB showed, stupidity doesn't disqualify for POTUS n/t

[20score]

9. K&R!

[Wetzelbill]

11. K and R.

[Kajsa]

12. She is ignorant beyond words.

K&R!

[burning rain]

14. Cenk in the trunk k&r!

:-)

[Turborama]

15. K&R Their feeble attempts at fielding off any criticisms by saying we are "scared" misses the point

I am (along with probably every other intelligent person on this planet) "scared" but not in the way they think...

Scared that there are so many idiotic nut jobs who, even after listening to multiple examples of her mind numbing stupidity, think that she's actually smart enough to hold any political position and scared at the thought of her http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=278196&mesg_id=278498">trying to actuate the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x278196">easily debunked Rapture myth if she were ever to get her hands on the Nuclear Football.

[matthewf]

17. k&r

[Dr.Phool]

18. In what respect, Cenkie?

[CherylK]

19. LOL!

:spray:

[ehrnst]

21. Translation of her answer to O'Reilly:

"I believe {for lack of evidence} that I am {qualified to be President} because I have common sense {and nobody else does}, and I have -- I believe -- the {conservative} values that I think are reflective of so many other {uneducated} American values {and so imply that Democrats do not}; and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism {that I associate with intelligence} ... a kind of spineless spinelessness {courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department} that perhaps {since I've lost my train of thought} is made up for ... with some kind of elite, Ivy League education {which I assure you, I will never qualify for} and a fat resume {which again, I will never qualify for} that is based on anything but hard work {because I don't understand state government nor community organization nor teaching law, and therefore do not associate it with 'hard work'} and private sector {which I understand perfectly, being a mayor and first-term governor seeking federal office}, free enterprise principles {which I'm told are good, even though deregulation has crushed the economy}. Americans ... could be {since I really don't know} seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership {although Dubyeah Bush could never have been accused of being intellectually elite, and despite the number of "values" he and I share} ... I'm not saying this has to be me {especially since I'm radically unqualified for any federal position}."

Courtesy of my friend Tom...who I believe has a Palin translator app on his iphone.

[madamesilverspurs]

22. Try to imagine Palin

explaining what "irrefutable" is. Ow.


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[Moostache]

23. Not that Obama's performance has thrilled me....but, oh how I want to see a Palin-Obama debate!

If for no other reason than to watch the dim-wit try to word salad her way through 90 minutes of questions without a script again. I don't think you can go back to the winking well Baracuda!

[ihavenobias]

24. It would be entertaining but the Republican primaries/debates would be even more entertaining. n/t