Palin is, additionally, costing McCain newspaper endorsements. As I mentioned earlier, Obama is leading McCain by 3:1 (66:18) so far. Many of the endorsements cited Palin as a factor in their rejection of McCain. The Salt Lake Tribune, which supported George W. Bush in 2004, commented that "out of nowhere, and without proper vetting, the impetuous McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. She quickly proved grievously under-equipped to step into the presidency should McCain, at 72 and with a history of health problems, die in office. More than any single factor, McCain's bad judgment in choosing the inarticulate, insular and ethically challenged Palin disqualifies him for the presidency." The Kansas City Star, in turn, described Palin as "unqualified."
Brookings Senior Fellow Thomas Mann said "[After the initial euphoria] Within weeks, she became a liability, primarily as a highly visible indicator of McCain's impulsiveness and recklessness in picking someone who is patently unqualified to serve as president and commander-in-chief."
The reason why she's costing McCain is of course, that Palin is a moron, from everything that we've been allowed to see. This article takes a closer look.
"Sarah Palin and the Know-Nothings" by Meg White
Here's a thought: John McCain didn't pick Sarah Palin to be his VP because she's a woman. He didn't pick her because of her adeptness at winking onstage, or her folksiness, or her so-called "family values."
He picked her because she appeals to the Know Nothing wing of the GOP.
Meg White goes on to quote Paul Krugman, who just won the Nobel Prize:
In today's political parlance, the phrase "know nothing" has taken on two meanings: nativism and ignorance. Which is why Palin is a perfect spokesperson."Know-nothingism -- the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant -- gratification answers to every problem, and that there's something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise -- has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party's de facto slogan has become: 'Real men don't think things through.'"
Palin has expressed ignorance on a range of issues so wide, that it's hardly worth giving the scope of, but here goes:
- Who attacked us on 9/11
- The origin of the Pledge of Allegiance
- The goings on in Iraq
- The Bush Doctrine
- What a VP does
- How much energy her state produces
- What Hamas is
- What being a member of NATO entails
- What causes global warming
- How to fill out a tax return correctly
- Any Supreme Court rulings she disagrees with, besides that one about abortion
- The name of any major newspaper or magazine she reads
I'm sure there's more (feel free to remind me of what I've forgotten below), but I'm getting a little worn out just thinking about it. Maybe I should take a page out of Palin's book and just stop thinking so darn much.
Sarah Palin has taken lack of knowledge to a whole new level and embraced ignorance. She's said herself that she doesn't think, er blink, when she has to make a life-changing decision.
I'm sure if you asked Palin in a friendly room if she were anti-intellectual, she'd say yes. She asked a Wasilla librarian what it would take to remove books she found offensive from the local library. She's against comprehensive sex-education. She wants schools to teach children creationism. She's anti-science.
Long story short: Palin is not satisfied with simply stemming the tide of her own informational intake. She wants to remove educational opportunities for America's children as well. And the way she drags her school-aged children around the campaign trail doesn't inspire much confidence in her educational values either.
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