The attacks against Palin have been disgusting, her acceptance speech was astonishing, her answer in the clip below is gibberish.
Cafferty’s disgust is understandable. This exposes an important question. Palin has been compared to Reagan and Thatcher, but both these were intelligent people with good understandings of the economic principles of Liberalism. Thatcher had Keith Joseph behind her, Reagan was deeply influenced by Friedman.
When asked about economic questions, Palin just puts a pile of stock phrases into a bag, jumbles them up and then pulls them out in a random order. That technique produced some striking lyrics for David Bowie but it’s unconvincing in the political context. It’s the kind of thing a very stupid but carefully rehearsed person might do when completely out of their depth.
Even without these interview problems, Palin’s history of bathing in religious snake oil makes it hard to take her brain seriously. Her involvement with a Kenyan witch-hunter reveals plain, unadorned stupidity – not a lack of judgement, just plain stupidity. The preacher involved is a brutal buffoon, ludicrous and malevolent, a Capo in clown trousers. If Palin buys into that sort of religion, she’s an idiot.
The important question, though, is this: So what? Obama is an economic cretin with a history of involvement with religious lunatics, and he’s standing to be the next President, not the next VP.
UPDATE: Damian Mann points out in the comments that Palin’s acceptance speech was a teleprompter triumph. That’s true. I wonder what Obama’s teleprompter thought about it.
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