Palin on Fox News
It’s interesting that when I estimated Sarah Palin’s IQ to be 108 nobody really objected and the other day when Auster asked if there were any Palin defenders left reading his site not one came forward. I remember a year ago whenever her name came up at Sailer or Sigma she had an army of defenders. Not any more. While she may still be popular in proleistan has the more cognitively gifted HBDosphere given up on her?
Maybe when she was picked out of nowhere to be McCain’s VP we could cut her some slack. But now after having all this time to learn history and get her positions and talking points straight there are no more excuses.
I want to shoot myself whenever she says “common sense conservative solutions.” There’s nothing common sensical about conservative economics. It’s complicated. I doubt Palin understands it. The common sense of most people asks why can’t government just give everybody everything or “create job” by hiring people. John Derbyshire in his last book said he knew an economics writer who always got asked by people “Why doesn’t government just print enough money to make everybody wealthy?”
Commentator sg wrote the following on a different thread dealing with Sarah Palin,
Have to go with Forest Gump on this one. Stupid is as stupid does. I don’t really disagree with what Palin did as governor, so to me that makes her fit for office. Whereas I don’t give a damn how carefully Obama considers any issue because his decisions and actions are wrong. Therefore, he is unfit. Who cares what, or even if, a politician thinks. What matters is what actual laws are passed and how they affect the country.
I agree up to a point. I’d of course rather have a conservative with an IQ of 120 than a liberal with an IQ of 150. But I want any conservative I support to at least be smart enough not to be an embarrassment every time he opens his mouth.
Anyway, here’s part 1 of Palin on FoxNews Sunday. I must say I’m impressed she crossed Bill Kristol by endorsing Rand Paul. (2:06) But then she goes and starts saying that she supports his father Ron. (2:56) Does she even know which one is running? Perhaps some anti-Kristol who is close to her (Todd?) told her to make the endorsement.
She’s keeping her options open on running for president. Could she win the Republican nomination? Well, McCain pulled it off in 2008 because of name recognition and his not being a Mormon. In 2012 Palin will be the best known of the candidates and Christian. So it seems possible. Romney is the nice beta for the Republicans that nobody wants to accept. And then when the general comes and it’s her vs. Obama we’ll have a societal soap opera unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
She quotes Pat Buchanan at 3:26 in the video below and wonders whether Obama will play the war card. Wallace asks her if she thinks he would bomb Iran just to win the election. No, she’s not saying that, but that he could. What a bizarre exchange. I don’t think she’s intelligent enough to talk and think ahead at the same time. Words come out of her mouth and she doesn’t know which direction she’s going to take with them until it’s too late. Maybe one day she’ll slip up and mention one of the Buchanan articles on the demographic decline of the white race.
UPDATE: Palin apparently wrote “energy, budget cuts (with ‘budget’ crossed out), Tax, Lift American Spirits” on her hand for the Tea Party Q&A section. She couldn’t remember the three or four talking points she’s been repeating for the last six months! Half Sigma thinks her IQ is only 100 but I’m starting to think that even he is overestimating her.
