Palin not progressive enough for either party

Rush Limbaugh responds to the "Palin is not well read enough" elitists with this:

RUSH: Okay, and I hear this from a lot of people on our side, too. Primarily women, primarily women. And I think many of them have been in Washington too long. "Lord knows she's attractive." That's the rub. That's the rub. Well, it's not the whole rub, but it's part of what grates on 'em. Trust me, my friends. Trust me. When your poster chick is Barbara Mikulski, you get the drift. When your poster chick is Nancy Pelosi. I don't care, pick one. But this whole notion of... I'm sure Obama's well read, too, right? And Obama's running around apologizing for the United States every chance he gets. What's the point of being well read...? This is an effort to say she's unsophisticated. She's not properly refined. She's not from the schools of thought that everybody in Washington considers to be important.

Now, I have no clue what she's going to do. I don't know anybody who does besides her. We got a Washington Post story that says she's going to go out and campaign for conservative Democrats. When I watched her speech when she announced she was going to leave the governorship of Alaska, I didn't hear the word Republican mentioned once. If I'm Sarah Palin and I'm conservative, the Republican Party's been just as mean-spirited to her as the Democrats have. A lot of them have. A lot of Republican Party, a lot of the so-called conservative media have been. I don't know if she's going to campaign for conservative Democrats but if she believes that conservatism is the way to go... But one thing that does slightly worry me about this is this whole third-party business. Yeah, it's remote but it's still a possibility out there, and there are a lot of people pushing a third party, and that's...

Third parties, they lose. They just lose. Third parties never end up with a congressional or Senate candidate winning. It's not the way to go but we'll save that for later if that actually begins to transpire, or we see it beginning to transpire. The bottom line is she and her political... You ought to read Willie Brown in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Willie Brown says she's just outsmarting everyone. Her instincts are good. American Thinker, I think Thomas Lifson wrote about it, too, Willie Brown analysis of this. That she's just steps ahead of everybody strategically and doesn't fit any cookie-cutter mold, which is exactly what's necessary.

Comments

[Braden]

Well read generally means smart.

Sarah Palin claimed the Department of Law provides legal protection for the President.

She claimed she had knowledge of Russia based on its geographical proximity to Alaska.

She couldn't name the countries in NAFTA.

She thought South Africa was simply a region of the continent of Africa.

She didn't know who Hamas was.

She fell for a prank phone call from someone pretending to be Nicolas Sarkozy.

She could't name a Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade.

Your title should say, "Sarah Palin not smart enough for either party."

[Steve Sibson]

Braden,

Thanks for backing up my "elitists" point.