>>>>If it's Palin vs. Obama in 2012 just give her a cigarette and a blindfold. He is about a thousand times smarter than her.
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>>>Since you are the arbiter of bad writing you know it should be "smarter than she".
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>>Really? I will take your word for it but "smarter than she" sounds a little arch.
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>Just substitue the implied verb and see which sounds better..... smarter than she is ... or smarter than her is...

I am getting the snot knocked out of me over this. I never said or implied "smarter than her is." If I was grammatically incorrect then I profoundly apologize. I still have an opinion about which way of putting it sounds better. "Smarter than she" sounds like a correction an 80 year old Englishwoman would make.