Palin the next Thomas Eagleton?

**Rochardrik** · 10-02-2008, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by TRAP

You mean the next Thomas Jefferson.

WOW!!! Talk about blind faith!!!. You don't need to read any thing about her. Just listen to her! She is as dumb as a post, and just as savvy! Whew! And the GOP is still happy about McCain's choice?

**Rochardrik** · 10-02-2008, 09:01 AM

Look, we don't need a prez, or veep who is a "nice guy" or "someone who you would like to have a beer with". We've had that for eight years. We have a president with a lower IQ than your school janitor, and it shows. Sarah Palin is just about the least intellectual person I have ever seen in a public position. We need someone who is smarter than we are, to fix the complete mess this current "good ol' boy" has lowered us into!
If you would be truthful, you would agree that YOU (I include myself as well!)are not smart enough to fix this mess!. And neither is Palin... or McCain for that matter!

**Galen Sevinne** · 10-02-2008, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by Rochardrik

Look, we don't need a prez, or veep who is a "nice guy" or "someone who you would like to have a beer with". We've had that for eight years. We have a president with a lower IQ than your school janitor, and it shows. Sarah Palin is just about the least intellectual person I have ever seen in a public position. We need someone who is smarter than we are, to fix the complete mess this current "good ol' boy" has lowered us into!
If you would be truthful, you would agree that YOU (I include myself as well!)are not smart enough to fix this mess!. And neither is Palin... or McCain for that matter!

The truth is, and I don't know why, conservative politics doesn't seem to attract intellectuals. Look at the last 20 years. Clinton - Rhodes Scholar, Gore - Nobel Prize, John Kerry - Yale Grad (yeah I know "W" went there too but really???) and Obama - Columbia, Harvard Law, Taught constitutional law for ten years. Those are some impressive resumes.

Republicans can't match this. Bush - won't even debate any intellectual merit about him, Cheney failed out of Yale, McCain - barely made it through USNA with the help of his father, and Palin - went to half a dozen community colleges before finally graduating with a BA from somewhere.

Because of this the repubs try to push this "six pack" mentality on americans. You know, my friends drink six packs wirth the best of them and I don't want any of those knuckleheads running for office let alone VP or President. I mean really, c'mon is it that hard? If I ever meet a president I hope I am completely intimidated and so far out of my league that suggesting we sit down a drink a six pack is the last thought that comes to mind.

I believe the republican mentality is what drives their constituents to vote for them based on blibilical fears, amygdala-based archetypal shadow fears and finally tax and spend fears. These are all illusions. Read Plato and his analogy of the cave - he had it right.

I hope for the day when I am impressed with the intellect of an american president again and not just stoked on the idea that i could drink a beer with the idiot.