Palin will do nothing to break the glass ceiling.

[ColbertWatcher]

Ah, meritocracy! Not so long ago, conservatives had a lock on it: no affirmative action, no A's for effort and no competitions where everyone gets a prize. People who complained that racism or sexism or any other -ism was holding them back were whiners looking for excuses. They either didn't want to work hard or, as Charles Murray claimed in The Bell Curve, they weren't smart enough to make the grade.

Well, never mind. Sarah Palin has done for meritocracy what she's done for those other conservative obsessions: working mothers (you go, girl!), teen pregnancy (a challenge!), masculine authority (the first dude?) – to say nothing of gravitas, statesmanship, wisdom and all those other weighty abstract nouns George Will likes to talk about. "I'm in love. Truly and deeply in love," Murray told the New York Times' Deborah Solomon. "The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government."

Palin is new, young, attractive, charismatic, a natural speaker. She's a fascinating combination of opposites – relatable (horrible word) and down to earth but also intense and weirdly thrilling – half Rachael Ray, half Boudicca, a warrior mom. Feminist triumph or feminist nightmare? Maybe both! She's hot in all senses of the word. If she wasn't a big reactionary, she'd make a fantastic community organiser.

But let's be real: There is just no way Sarah Palin is equipped to be vice-president, much less president. She doesn't know enough; she lacks the necessary grasp of, and curiosity about, our complex world; her political philosophy could fit on a bumper sticker: Us versus Them. The lack of stamps in her recently acquired passport has been much noted (yes, I know, Bill Kristol, Lincoln was not a big traveler, either); it isn't even clear she's well acquainted with the Lower 48. She's prepping for her debate with Joe Biden like a student jock cramming for a test.

(more)

--The GUardian

[Catch22Dem]

1. Are you kidding? She's steel reinforcing it!!!! (n/t)

[livetohike]

2. A "natural speaker" ?

:wtf: does that mean? Also, she is no Boudicca.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. "Also, she is no Boudicca." No, that she definitely is not.

As far as being a speaker, I think that's a GOP meme to confuse their sheeple with a person who can convey messages via the spoken word and Nancy Pelosi who is Speaker of the House.

[Dr.Phool]

4. For Palin, "breaking the glass" is sitting on the copy machine.

[EFerrari]

8. And trying not to break a nail.

[Warpy]

5. Sure she will

She'll make it bulletproof.

[leeroysphitz]

6. She might leave a smudge...

[Dukkha]

7. Charles Murray epitomizes everything wrong with Americans

in his one sentence "The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government." If an election was between Steven Hawking and "Mountain Dew" Camacho from Idiocracy, guess who'd win in a landslide?

[ColbertWatcher]

9. Voting's got electrolytes! n/t

[Javaman]

10. failin palin is just replacing the one Hillary broke. nt