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I just arrived home after driving my sons to school. Usually we listen to music as we drive, but today I insisted that we listen to talk radio. I like to flip around between the liberal and conservative radio stations as I drive to hear what the talk show hosts and my fellow americans are chatting about.
When I switched to Jay Marvins show on AM 760 here in Boulder, he was talking about Sarah Palin having the intelligence of a 16 year old. Then a woman called in and righteously claimed that his analogy was “insulting to sixteen year old girls”..ha ha ha, aren’t we so smarmy smart?
I suppose the female caller and talker Jay do not understand that by insulting Sarah Palins intelligence, they are also insulting the intellect of those of us who love her and her politics. Perhaps they don’t care if contempt for her translates into insult to us and our ability to weigh the issues, think, and vote for a ticket that is more in line with our values than some yuk yuk on The Daily Show or Saturday Night Live.
It is a truism in politics that as soon as a republican throws his or her hat into the ring, the talking heads all assume a loss of fifty or more IQ points.
In attempting to brush Sarah Palin with the broad strokes of the Dan Quayle school of “Duh” journalism, the Media is also sending a message to those of us who have been energized by her willingness to run on the presidential ticket, “Listen up you blockheads, boobies, cretins, dimwits, dolts, dopes, dorks, dullards, dunces, fools, imbeciles, morons, nitwits, and stupid twits: YOU American Voters don’t get to decide who the next president is. We do! And we will tell you who is intelligent, smart, and ready to lead, even if all evidence points to our guy being a know nothing, immoral crack head, brainwashed in cradle to grave marxism by his earliest mentors to his days in the Ivy League.”
Mark Goldblat at National Review Online had some choice words for Gwen Ifill from a fictitious Sarah Palin in his most recent column:

“Ever since Senator McCain made that selection, by the way, I’ve been working hard to get up to speed on foreign policy and global issues. The reason I wasn’t up to speed beforehand is that, curiously enough, I’d been focusing all my energy on doing the jobs I’d been elected to do. When I was elected mayor of Wasilla, I tried to be a good mayor. When I was elected governor of the Alaska, I tried to be a good governor. I didn’t regard either position as a stepping stone to anything else. I saw no need to go on fact-finding tours, at taxpayers’ expense, to foreign countries in an effort to bolster my geopolitical credentials for higher office.

By the time John McCain and I take office in January, rest assured I will be up to speed on geopolitics. I will be altogether qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency. And I’ll surround myself with altogether qualified advisers and staff, not yes-men and yes-women. Because I know from experience — the very experience my opponent, Sen. Biden, lacks — what it is like to make an executive decision. I know what it is like, after the legislative wrangling is done, after the wheeling and dealing by party hacks who are determined to maintain political cover and plausible deniability, to have the buck stop at my desk, to enact a law by my signature, to put my name on the bottom line.

So no, Ms. Ifill, I think I’ll keep my seat. You can take down your blank map. I came here tonight to discuss, to the best of my abilities, the international and domestic issues that confront the United States and to provide the American people with an insight into my governing philosophy. I didn’t come to convince voters that I could be a Jeopardy champion. If that’s the main qualification for the vice presidency, then I’d suggest both Sen. Biden and I step aside for Ken Jennings.

I plan to vote for John McCain because I would like to see Sarah Palin as our first female president. I believe she has the strength and the courage to take on the difficult task of busting up the special interests and financial waste that defines our national government. I see her willing, based on her past executive experience, to make the diffcult choices in all areas of Executive Government.
Don’t try to convince me that she is stupid and that I am dumb to want someone like her as my Commander in Chief.

Jenny Hatch