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Palin: One of My Greatest Credentials is the Lack of Credentials

Sarah Palin is the gift that continues to keep on giving. In her recent appearance on O’Reilly, Palin was asked the “intelligence question,” to wit, the lack of presumed intelligence to be president. Palin responded by explaining that in today’s politics the lack of an impressive education or resume is actually the credential that Americans want in a candidate.

Here is the transcript:

O’REILLY: Let me be very bold and fresh again. Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the the kind of spineless… a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that has to be me.

Putting aside the uncertain meaning of having “values that are reflective of so many other American values,” Palin actually suggests that a successful background is a liability — what really matters is personality and the lack of such impressive resumes.

This part of the interview occurs around the 7:45 marker on the interview below:

In the parallel world of Palin, educated means spineless and success means elitism. She was able to avoid both liabilities, here.

It seems to be a winning combination of little resume credentials and no impressive educational background:

57 thoughts on “Palin: One of My Greatest Credentials is the Lack of Credentials”

  3. wildmom251–

    “Sarah Palin has education, common sense and off the scale intelligence.”

    ***************

    Her intelligence certainly is “off the scale.” She doesn’t have enough gray matter to register more than an ounce or so anyway. She probably thinks “neurons” are subatomic particles. In addition, she has a superficial knowledge of most “weighty” subjects.

  4. I have to agree with you on that one Buddah. Unfortunately the creditials Sara Palin has are that of a Liar, Quiter and not a very educated person if she thinks she could past vetting to become the president of theses united states. Now if Texas suscedes from this union; then maybe.

  5. Sarah Palin is a full-flushing moron. If she runs for President, she’ll waste a lot of money and then she’ll quit.

    Just like the last job she held.

  7. Education without experience creates a nebbish who thinks he knows it all, unable to even understand the failure of his remedies much less acknowledge them. This is Obama. Sarah Palin has education, common sense and off the scale intelligence. If she decides to run for president, Obama won’t know what hit him.

  9. “How about a side winding bullet that hit him when it was meant for JFK? And LBJ was behind it all along…..”

    AY,
    Hard to disagree with that and by the way I love your icon.

  10. “…people who have Ivy League educations running our government, they have the intellectual arrogance to believe that they can control an economy the size of ours through central planning and computer models…”

    Citations, please: who are these people who are urging we “control” the economy through “central planning” and “computer models”?

  13. Doesn’t anyone remember Anne Richards or Molly Ivins? They were two Texas women who were not conservative.

  14. Mike Spindell,

    Texas is also the home of Brown and Root, which became Haliburton and was a chief Rayburn and LBJ supporter.

    Now don’t forget Hughes Tool, Electronics etc.
    _________________________________________________________
    “I have wondered why John Connally switched parties?”

    Southern Strategy perhaps? Crookedness, probably.

    How about a side winding bullet that hit him when it was meant for JFK? And LBJ was behind it all along…..

  15. Mespo,
    Huxley quote perfect. amen.

    “Ms. Palin epitomizes the era when people like her tried to made others believe that it was *not* ‘cool’ to be smart,”

    FFLEO,
    Nailed it!

    AY,
    Texas is also the home of Brown and Root, which became Haliburton and was a chief Rayburn and LBJ supporter.

    “I have wondered why John Connally switched parties?”

    Southern Strategy perhaps? Crookedness, probably.

    Buddha,

    “cough cough cough Glass-Stegall cough cough cough”

    Part of why I despised Mr. C and it had nothing to do with sex.
    How about DADT, Welfare Reform, NAFTA & CAFTA? As far as Kansas goes Bill James comes from Lawrence, so it has to have merit.

  16. “Not alot of people with impressive backrounds in this administration, they just aren’t there.”

    Nick,
    Do you mean private sector backgrounds like Wall Street, Investment Banks, Automobile Corporations, etc.? Perhaps you mean someone who successfully launched NASDAQ like Bernie Madoff? Then too there are those people with private sector experience in energy corporations like ENRON, or LILCO, perhaps you mean them?
    The assumption that making money in the private sector makes someone intelligent, competent or honest is a false one. The report you cite as evidence is silly and your premise is ridiculous.

  17. Buddha,

    The problem with Eisenhower is that he was too honest. There was no such thing as a presidential retirement/pension until after Harry S. Truman. If memory serves correctly, he went back to his Mother-In-Laws house to live. She reminded him that he would never amount to much.

    If memory again does not fail me, a private foundation was going provide about 25k a year as a pension. Although Ike was in Office it was first proposed in 55 but not totally passed until 58. Maybe nal can check me on this.

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