With All Due Respect: I Disagree It Is Possible to Underestimate Sarah Palin

[Mike 03]

This notion that she is secretly brilliant defies the evidence we have seen for years.

Look at what happened over the last week: She still is not aware that you can't "remove" things from a website, and in two successive incidents, attempted to scrub things that she had posted and which millions of people captured and cached.

Second, listen to her use and abuse of the English language. Either she has no speech-writers, or she has dumped her PR advisers and is relying on family members to give her advice that is not worth following. Where and who are her speechwriters? Did she let them go because she could do better just "speaking from the heart"? Look a the result this morning.

Lastly, who does she believe she is appealing to? If Palin were intelligent, she would have viewed today as an opportunity to regain rather than sabotage her credibility.

Am I wrong? I'm open to being convinced that I'm "naive", "gullible" and underestimating Sarah Palin. And I am well aware there are smart Republicans who strategize and have brilliant advisers--I simply disagree that Sarah Palin is one of them. After her massive self-obliteration today, I have many concerns and worries, but Sarah Palin is not one of them.

Sorry for the rant, but I am sick of people saying Sarah Palin is brilliant. It ain't so.