Of course it is. Palin’s devotees love her precisely because, as they repeatedly say, she’s like them: not polished, lacking shiny academic credentials, much more likely to be found at a snow mobile race than at a performance of Manon Lescaut. You’ve never seen anyone wearing an “I Am Mitt Romney” t-shirt. You WILL see people wearing an “I Am Sarah Palin” t-shirt.

Mencken famously said “No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
I guess we should now append “or unelected” after “broke”. I just sat through the most ridiculous GOP primary in this state’s history (Florida) and a complete and utter obvious scumbag likely prevailed because he ranted about a frigging mosque in NYC.

http://floridaindependent.com/6644/scott-staff-says-opposition-to-new-york-muslim-community-center-probably-saved-campaign

People deserve the government they get, I suppose.

I’m still not quite sure of what to think of Palin or Romney. I do think that Palin has done a good job of picking candidates. She seems to be a genuine movement conservative, who is perfectly willing to go against the establishment to pick the candidate she prefers, and people respect her for it. I’m not sure if I’d want her as chief executive, especially after she quit the governorship, but I do have to admit that if she endorsed a candidate that I didn’t know about in a race that I got to vote in, I would give the candidate a second look.

I liked Romney better then McCain or Huckabee in 2008, but that is because I loathe both McCain and Huckabee. Romney has said some good things in the past couple of years, and gone to some movement conservative events, but I’m still not quite sure what he’d be like as president. Competent? Sure. Conservative? Maybe. In general, I’ll take a 115 IQ conservative over a 145 IQ RINO anyday.

I can’t really get upset with her pushing for a change in Alaska’s senate seat. The seat was literally bequeathed on Murkowski by her father. In a republic, that sort of dynasticism should be rejected.

As for Romney’s I.Q., McClellan was far more intelligent and knowledgeable than Grant. If you wan’t fight, though, all the brainpower in the world won’t help. Romney just hasn’t been very active at the grassroots, as far as I can see. He has to prove hi mettle by taking some risks. Fortune favors the brave.

…his problem is that he thought the plan was a good idea in the first place.

Yes, I am well-aware that Romney was the chief architect of the Massachusetts health care plan.

I think you are mistaking good hair and height for intelligence. I see that all the time in business.