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Let them get meaner! It just makes Sarah leaner!

Radical Reductionist, Cutting through the BS!

Let's try it this way.

(1) This is still broadly off-topic. I understand that for some people, Mrs. Palin is a dog-whistle; the mere mention of her name is enough to send them hauling tail. Kindly keep your peeing outdoors.

(2) Joe Biden, super genius. (The first is a reminder to click the links in the piece you didn't read. The latter is a reminder to read.)

(3) If you read, well, anything that isn't a left-wing blog, but is something groundbreaking like any of the links in the piece above, you'll find out about that whole “I can see Russia from my house” thing. I don't actually expect that to happen, but by-golly, I'm so generous, I like to help the mentally enfeebled, like Ron Paul fans and lefty trolls who don't bother to read pieces before they comment on them.

The remainder of — well, if we're honest, all of, but like I said, generous — your comment does not merit a response.

2. I wasn't referring specifically to Mr. Sullivan, although he is one; the Christian Science Monitor, Dan Bartlett of CBS, Atlantic Online, and others concur that Ms. Palin misunderstands cap & trade. Either you understand something (meaning you can explain it without contradiction) or you don't, and she evidently doesn't.

3. If you have a factual argument to make, make it and refrain from whining about people with whom you happen to disagree.

On the only two points worth addressing:

(1) The rich irony of knocking someone for “really addressing the serious issues we face relying instead on very general talking points” while in a debate with Joe Freaking Biden may be too much for ordinary mortals to bear.

(2) I don't think the random utterances of Andrew Sullivan count as “editorials.”

Now, I apply that to Sarah Palin this way.

She went through a debate with Joe Biden without really addressing the serious issues we face relying instead on very general talking points. To me that indicated a serious lack of knowledge of the issues.

She can't name a newspaper or book she's read, and unless that's just nervous forgetfulness, she is not educated enough to hold public office, at least not for me. I like my leaders to be smarter than Joe the Plumber, and certainly to have read extensively the viewpoints of others.

Quitting in the middle of the job with only a rambling list of sports analogies for a reason cannot be considered positive experience.

She wrote an OpEd in the Washington Post this morning wherein she completely misframes the issue of cap & trade energy policy. When you misunderstand an issue, you necessarily misinterpret its effect and outcomes, and you get it wrong, and that's exactly what she did. Don't believe me? Read the editorials which sprang from her misguided article.

In short, Sarah Palin is an interesting person with some attractive features, a strong personality, and it turns out, few qualifications for the positions to which she seems to aspire.