Sarah Palin has many faults, from not being able to name a single newspaper that she’d read during her vice-presidential bid for the Republicans in 2008, to using cheat notes written on her hand at a public appearance attacking Barack Obama in recent weeks. She is also a crude, right-wing populist who appears to be attempting to use her particular kind of all-American, yummy-mummy wholesome “simplicity” (to quote my colleague Jon Bernstein) to seduce America into adopting her as the stupidest US president of all time.
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