>>>>>>>>Not sure how responsible it is to put such an idiot on a national TV news show though....
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>>>>>>>Al Gore seemed to do well with his extra publicity, and he's a pretty big idiot.
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>>>>>>Al Gore is Nobel Laureate and also a Harvard Grad - so I think I'd trust his intelligence a tad more than Palin's.
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>>>>>We weren't talking about book smarts. We were talking about being an idiot.
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>>>>Fine. Gore has said some dumb things. Plain IS dumb....huge difference.
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>>>Dumb enought to be elected a Mayor and a Governor... not toooooo shabby !!! (and almost Vice-President too)..... and now working for FoxNews.... so not tooooooooooooooo dumb.. I'd say!
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>>>And a major best-seller, too ???
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>>Mayor of a town of what, a few thousand? And governor of a state of a million? That's not the big leagues.
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>>And if she wrote that book herself, I'm a monkey's uncle.
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>Here is something you might want to check out. John Mark Reynolds was a huge Palin defender. He still has hopes for her, but they are now tempered since her book came out.
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>This is a quote from a story in the Toronto Star actually about "The Tea Party", a recent addition to American Politics, but in it he talks a bit about her book and what it meant for him as regards Palin. You can get his entire chapter by chapter critique here:
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>http://firstthings.com/blogs/evangel/2009/11/rogue-thoughts-chapter-by-chapter-on-sarah-palin/
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>Anyway, here's the quote from the Star:
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>Grassroots and populist, the amorphous Tea protesters comprise a hydra-headed amalgam of sensibilities, some undeniably ugly. But some, despite Brooks' assessment, are actually extremely well schooled – and deeply offended by the notion that all opposition to Washington rests on ignorance.
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>"You do have people in the Tea movement who are – let's face it – insane. People who think Obama is the anti-Christ," said John Mark Reynolds, a philosophy professor at Biola University and an active voice for thoughtful conservatism.
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>"But the Tea Party is not a coherent ideological rage machine. And a huge number of people are drawn to it because they are mad as hell about government spending and bailouts. To parody them as ignorant buffoons is to completely misunderstand and underestimate them."
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>Most agree the movement is the wild card of American politics today – one that could evolve toward third-party status, but more likely will flex its muscle within Republican circles by pressing for the nomination of "core-value" conservative candidates over moderates. Several such battles are already underway, with Tea Party supporters rallying behind upstarts Marco Rubio of Florida and Gary Johnson of New Mexico.
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>But what the Tea movement lacks most is an actual leader. For a long time, Reynolds held out hope that Palin might be the one. But his disappointment was palpable in the scathing chapter-by-chapter review of Palin's Going Rogue he penned for firstthings.com.
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>Reynolds, an expert in Greek philosophy, was shocked to discover the book laden with misquoted citations of Plato and Aristotle – the result, he is almost certain, of a lazy attempt by the author (or ghostwriter) to quote-mine Google, to make Palin sound smart.
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>"It is just inexcusable. I'd like to be a Palinista but I want a president with a thoughtful world view – that is just a bare minimum requirement," Reynolds told the Star.
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>"Unlike David Brooks of the New York Times, I believe good ideas can come from people outside the box. Populism can be just as thoughtful and intellectually engaged and it is dangerous to suggest otherwise.
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>"But in writing a book full of spurious misquotations, Palin demonstrates she is not serious. She has charisma in droves, she lights up a room. But if she is too lazy to sit down, read books, develop her political philosophy, we can't just set the bar lower and lower for her until she passes it."
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>Political watchers anticipate a Democratic slide in November mid-term elections. But with Tea Party's future so amorphous and mainstream Republican strategy built around little more than obstructing Team Obama, an electoral reversal now might merely "contribute to the air of cynicism in which our citizens marinate," conservative columnist Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
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>"Republican political professionals in Washington assume a coming victory. They do not see that 2010 could be a catastrophic victory for them if they seize back power without clear purpose," Noonan wrote.
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>But the real battle will be in 2012, when the country takes the full measure of whether the Obama administration has put enough Americans back to work.
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>"It's not fair to dismiss the Tea Party people as rubes," said political blogger Scher.

Marking someone down because they misquote Plato sounds like intellectual snobbery to me. God forbid maybe she uses the wrong knife and forkf when eating fish. Whats important is wether she could run the US economy in any rational way.