More Rendell Hot Mic Comments!!! Palin ‘Not A Genius’ But Has ‘Very Good Political Instincts’

Hey Jake, and you keep referring to Governor Palin as the former “Major of Wasilla.” Don’t forget that she is the current Governor of Alaska.
Geez, anyone can see how biased you are!
Go Sarah!

Rendell is a nice guy but he like Biden like to talk and talk and sometimes they put the foot in their mouth!

MSNBC? who Olbermann or Rachel? He is a punk and she is weird!!
They have not credibility at all. They are not journalist, they are just well paid pundits.

Geez, Mary,
That same paragraph also refers to Gov. Rendell as former “Mayor of Philadelphia”.
So….they both are identified in the story as current Governors, and also as former Mayors.
Stop whining (and yes, I voted for McCain/Palin, AND I’m female, so don’t even try to pull the “biased” labeling with me)

Palin who? Oh, wait. THAT Palin.
YAWN. Her 15 minutes were up a month ago!

I’m biased. I like intelligence. Kind of partial to it.
“Not a genius” is a kind phrase. A very kind phrase.

I wonder if Palin heard those open-mike remarks from her seat in the last row, in the back of the room…
Nevermind, she knows about them now.

Heh – good political instincts is right, she gave Saxby Chambliss a 10-point boost at the polls in Georgia last Monday, just by showing up and endorsing him in front of thousands of people who came to see her.
Oh, and you do know that Elaine Lafferty, the former editor of Ms. magazine (and a Democrat) has said that Palin is a brainiac with a photographic memory? And that Camille Paglia has said similar things?
The “Sarah Palin is stupid” meme is laughable. Stupid people don’t rise from nothing to become Governor of their state, with no support from the political establishment. I remember the “Reagan is stupid” campaign by the press, too.

I believe her IQ is a fabrication by the MSM, and it worked.
MSM did a really good job destroying Sarah Palin – I am sure they will be greatly rewarded by Obama.
I still cannot watch CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, or CNN. I deploy their unethical behaviors during the election. Until Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, and Brian Williams are replaced I will not be watching any evening news. I will get all of my news online.

The lack of respect was the one shown to the American people by nominating this woman to the VPOTUS

The forthcoming apology should be funny. Didn’t he have to apologize to Napolitano already? Now he’ll be forced to say “Of course Governor Palin is an intelligent woman – I am the one who is ‘not a genius’.”
And then the Palin supporters will always be able to say “Even Democratic Governor Ed Rendell thinks Palin is smart!” LOL – I love it!

Another Pennsylvania Politician putting his foot in it. Remember Murtha and his redneck comments. Sounds to me like Rendell is no genius himself.

I like Ed Rendell just fine, he did not say anything too awful. I remember how helpful he was campaigning with Hillary, she grew so much as a candidate during the run up to the Pennsylvania primary. Gov. Rendell is terrific as is Gov. Palin. Can we ignore some of this minor bs?

This is sort of a pot calling the kettle kind of situation isn’t it?

Actually, if you listem to the comments the part you report as “not a genius” is inaudible.
CNN has confirmed that in their report.

“People, you have to remember that Alaska is famous for electing stupid, corrupt politicians,”
And Sarah Palin has put an awful lot of those corrupt politicians in jail.
But isn’t Chicago also famous for a corrupt political machine? Did Obama ever stand up to them? Uhhh…no.

The MSM already know who the real Sarah Palin is. And they are just teasing us about this wretch. As long as we keep going for the bait, they’ll have us exactly where they want us: at their beck and call.

Gotta love how threatened Dems are by Sarah Palin, as shown by both Rendell and some of the commenters below.
Smart Dems know Sarah is a threat, and smear her with lies by calling her dumb. Stupid Dems believe the lies.

Why do people cluelessly make comments about Sarah’s intelligence? Do you actually know ANYTHING about how smart she is?
She gracefully handled Charlie Gibson’s dowdification of something she had said. Obama terminated relations with one news organization over lesser things.
Diplomacy take a rare combination of brains and patience. Sarah has more of both than you know-nothings realize.

Funny. Ed Rendell talking smack about one of the nation’s Governors that is not asking for federal bailout. Rendell being one of the 38 Governor’s begging for a federal bailout talking smack about one of the 12 Governor’s who have their budget under control and not asking for federal money. Maybe Palin and the other 11 should be giving classes on fiscal responsibility at this Governor’s Conference.

Frederick Michael,
Smart? Please. This woman says at the interview how Israel and America are the good guys, while lumping all the Palestinians and Arabs as bad guys! What was scary was the overly-religious overtones she appeared to view the conflict as!
Hello, with all the garbage and lies Fox news had been spewing about Obama, I shouldn’t be surprised. But in the end, Obama did 5 interviews with Fox news, you know. He also went on O’Reilly.
What brains does she has, brains that think she can question a fellow American’s patriotism and play on fears and Islamophobia because he had a Muslim father and his middle name is of Arabic origins? At the VP debate all she did was restate her talking points. She clearly could memorize, but obviously did not understand what she was talking about. She is also intellectually incurious, she couldn’t even name a single newspaper/magazine she read. Surely she read her daily newspaper in Wasilla, even if she did not read TIME or Newsweek?
Diplomacy? Don’t make me laugh. This woman will FAIL at diplomacy. Look how she lumps people as good or bad guys. She talks about Russia as though we are in the Cold War. Russia certainly isn’t on its best behaviour lately, but neither do you try to bring us back to the Cold War period with all that saber-rattling. She believes we should not second guess Israel- even if they carry out questionable airstrikes- because she assumes the Israelis are 100% good and the Palestinians are bad.
She thinks she can let the government decide for me what I do with my body.
RIGHT.
She’s definitely not a genius. She had a worse school record then McCain- and her behaviour as we saw during the election doesn’t seem to show that she has changed or improved.

Thank you, grey matter. Not only are you going on at the keyboard about how Sarah Palin isn’t a genius and if a woman wants to have the hubris, the unmitigated gall to dare to be president when there are idiotic men like Barak Obama spouting off about 57 states and ventilators for asthmatic children and paying college students $40/hour for volunteer work (now THAT is Orwellian) then the little lady needs to step aside. Step aside, I say, until all the idiotic men have had their chance.
We don’t need you little ladies with your silly ideas about energy independence and cutting taxes and getting government out of the way. After all, where will we get the money to run these 57 states if we don’t tax the rich and give college students $40/hour for volunteer work?
Obama. The moron democrats deserve.

“How many brains she has?” There is such a sense of snobbery among intelligentsia. These nitwits that couldn’t survive outside of the university environment all sit back and tut-tut anybody that can. Perhaps this is why I burnt my leather elbow patches in my twenties.

The deepest pondering I’ve had about Palin recently is whether she’ll be on Oprah.

Well, Palin isn’t a genius according to IQ testing sites on the web. Some put her at 118, the same for OJ, but 2 points lower than Paris Hilton at 120. Since IQ tests lean heavily on the verbal, 118 looks pretty inflated.

Sarah Palin will hold her own. I’m a proud member of Team Sarah and we will continue to grow and make our voices heard.
I have 2 degrees from an Ivy League School and believe me – the majority of students are over-educated idiots that I wouldn’t hire.
Keep under estimating Sarah Palin – it will make our future Victory that much more satisfying.
And Ed Rendell should talk – actually he talks all the time. He shows up at every free dinner anywhere – any time – he’s packing on pounds. And while he did a good job as Mayor of Philly, it’s still up in the air as to his success as GOV of PA and his public speaking is pretty darn rough.
Go SARAH.

Billy -Her popularity in Alaska has dropped precipitously. Maybe that’s because of factors like Troopergate, the incendiary manner of her campaigning for MCcain, and other factors which have brought down her popularity in the lower 48. Besides that, popularity or charisma and IQ scores aren’t correlated. I’d recommend that you try to sharpen your debate skills with the factual, rather than going off on angry tangents in an ideologue fashion.

Grey Matter- I cold swear the anti-intellectualism is as authentic as her ruthlessness. No, I don’t want her anywhere near DC either, though I actually don’t find her formidable. If you take away the celebrity enhancement, she’s smaller than life. Her scariness lies in the societal forces she harnesses.

kat,
I agree, she is an anti-intellectual. It’s just that she actually isn’t all that “folksy”, as how she tried to portray with her “doggonits” and “betchas” and winks. She didn’t know Africa was a continent. JOY.
Yes, she can play on people’s fears and the whole “real” America crap, and you know, the POTUS is Barack HUSSEIN(!) Obama. Whatever. Millions of people of Arab descent have the name Hussein, it’s just that one of them happened to become a vicious dictator.
Enough. Somebody needs to tell Sarah that she lost. Alaskans are getting annoyed- she has yet to step back in her office and go back to her job instead of parading around the lower 48.

Why is the left sooo frightened of lil’ old Sara? Perhaps they have seen the energy she beings as she works the large crowds that come to see her speak? I can assure you that she is well aware of all things Africa.
Biden is a total dunce. The Obama campaign stuffed him into a bunker for part of September and all of October in fear that he would have opened his mouth for more than one syllable. Personally, I would like to see him debate Cheney. If you want to talk debating skills, remember how our current Vice President handed the little John Edwards his hat in 04. Even Edwards could dance circles around that dunce Biden.
You all know that if it hadn’t been for Sara, McCain would have only gotten 40%. What kind of budget had “the former mayor’ successfully managed compared to our president elect? Get ready pseudo intellectuals. The actual smart folk are gonna come after you hard. With Nancy ‘Private Jet’ Pelosi and Harry “Don’t Like the Smell of the Common Folk” Reid to run against in 2010, you know where it will go. 2012 will be a cakewalk.

Grey Matter,
In reference to your use of the word, “disseminate,” you disseminate lies about Sarah Palin when you repeat the myth that she was not aware Africa is a continent.
Sarah Palin is not an utter moron.
What is true here is that in order to diminish her, you lie about her and call her a moron and ridicule her. But you excuse utterly moronic statements by Biden which demonstrate him to be a greasy salesman who says anything just to appear like he knows something. The FDR statement is one example. His bloviating on the middle east in the VP debates are another. His words to supporters about the world testing Obama within 6 months is another. The list goes on and on. The man is not only ill-informed, he can’t keep his mouth shut.
As Mark Twain said, “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
You and Joe Biden and even Obama with his Orwellian definition of volunteerism could meditate on the meaning of that awhile.

Grey,
Your question answers itself if you understand the meaning of words. “How is it Orwellian to pay college students for volunteer work.”
Well, gee, because “volunteer work” is uncompensated.
So if you pay someone to do work it is not longer “volunteer work.” It is employment. And what will happen to all the work that needs to be done which does not compensate at a ridiculously over-inflated level of $40/hour? Do you think a college student is going to take a $12-15/hour job working around campus if he can work 100 hours at ACORN and earn $4,000?
Grey, since you value intelligence perhaps you should start taking a critical look at some of the policies Obama supports without being so emotional. When you support policies like paying $40/hour to college students for political action with arguments like, “do you know how many people can’t afford college????????” you are removing the intellect and inserting emotional propaganda into the debate.
I’m not sure if you realize how ironic you’re being by stating that you oppose someone because you believe her to be a moron and yet you argue in support of Obama’s $40/hour plan using pure emotion.
Funny, but sad at the same time.

wamplerg wrote, “Has any other governor sent rebates or has the approval rate that she has?”
Yes and yes. Alaskans have been receiving those rebates under other Alaskan governors since 1982. And Bobby Jindal has a higher approval rating than Sarah Palin.

“Why is the left sooo frightened of lil’ old Sara?”
Because she’s about an inch deep. She may have done fine in Alaska, but America needs some intelligent, thoughtful leadership for a change and Sarah doesn’t meet either of those requirements any more than my teenager would.
In case you hadn’t noticed what a disaster Bush has been, the last thing we need is another 5-watt bulb in Washington. Please run her for the GOP nomination in 2012, though!!

‘Libs are afraid of Sarah because she’s only an inch deep’.
Didn’t ya’ll just elect Barack Obama, 1st-Term US Senator, as President? Tell me his policy on… ANYTHING. And I can show you at least twice when he’s ‘nuanced’ it to suit a different audience.
And they talk about the incredible speeches Big-O gives. Or rather, reads. Yes, he’s got a great voice, but the contents of most of his speeches are pretty shallow. 2 parts change + 1 part hope + 1 part whatever the current audience wants to hear.

Sarah Palin is so much more than the press and libs see through their biased political smokescreen. I’m middle of the road but try to see both sides so I can form an honest opinion for myself. The libs I love and have worked with for the most part live by their preconceived ideas of liberal bias. They watch the same tv, listen to the same politicians, read the same newspapers and usually don’t step out of their comfort zone to try to understand “the other side.” I honestly think the rest of us out there who are politically aware, do try to see both sides. Wish there were more of us.
Sarah Palin has potential, we’ll see how far she goes with it over time. But she is NOT stupid.

APPOLOGIES TO W3bgrrl -
Hey – Grey Matter – do YOU have a job? Or is your only talent spewing crap?
No wonder your name is Grey Matter! It’s pretty DIM up top!

Palin will be a political leader in the national scene, and she has shown to be a smart and likable popular leader rather than a fraud like BHO. Media knows it and that is why they are after her.

JamesJ wrote “No one knows Obamas College, Law school grades, his SATs, etc. But everyone assumes he’s soooo intelligent because he reads a teleprompter well and spews warmed over Marxism”
Yeah James, Obama only graduated from Harvard magna cum laude. If he were truly intelligent he would have graduated summa cum laude. What a dope.

Other than a vague apprehension that we’ll look up and see her aiming at us from a helicoptor, I don’t know of any Liberals who are “afraid” of Sarah Palin.
What election results have you folks been looking at? She was so polarizing and inept that she scared the bejesus out of Independents and Moderate Republicans and helped Obama carry the suburbs.
Liberals would love to see Sarah Palin be the 2012 nominee.

The more extreme conservatives like to lay the hyperbole thick on Sarah Palin because she validates the vision of their own power structure. Being an ideologue for an extremist agenda doesn’t make a strong woman, but a token one. Palin, as a woman empowered by regressive forces, reminds me of the character,Serena Joy, from the Handmaid’s Tale.

To Rendell spouting off into a hot mic: way to go, genius!

WWW- I can fault him, because he’s no genius either.
(And just because she doesn’t pronounce certain words the way you would, doesn’t make her stupid – it’s a regional thing).

ellsbells930 wrote, “And just because she doesn’t pronounce certain words the way you would, doesn’t make her stupid – it’s a regional thing”
Dropping G’s and saying “you betcha” could be considered a regional thing, but the only region in which you would hear “pundint” and “heeneeus” is in Stupidville. Stop making excuses for Sarah Palin’s unadulterated ignorance of her native tongue.

WWW – I suppose you have NEVER mis-pronounced any word in your entire life? It must be nice to be perfect. But I still say that mispronouncing words is not a sign of how intelligent people are. So a person who has a lisp is stupid? Or stutters? Or has problems with certain letters? My daughter can’t pronounce words correctly that have both an ‘r’ and and ‘s’ in them because of the shape of palate- but she is VERY smart. I’m just sick of the arrogance of people who act like they are so perfect & that any little error by someone they have decided not to like is caused by stupidity. Mr. Obama has his share of speech issues too. I’ve noticed he has a habit of dropping the ends off of words too. But it IS a habit, not a sign of his intelligence or lack thereof.

ellsbells930,
Now you dare to compare people with lisps, stutters and physical impairments to a woman who mispronounces her words out of sheer ignorance.
These are not “little errors” that Sarah Palin makes. A high-level politician needs superior communication skills. Imagine a foreign leader trying to sift through this pile of Palinese slop:
“Any of the chants of ‘Sarah’ or anything that maybe would look like maybe anything was Sarah-centric, is, on my part, I know that it is not me personally, that the cheers were for. It’s for, ‘Cool, we’ve got a woman on the ticket, we’ve got this manifestation of progress and change in America.’… But not me, personally, were those cheers for, but it was just for the representation of a woman on the ticket, a mom, somebody who loves this country so much, somebody very, very committed to policies that, I believe, will progress this country in the right direction.”

WWW – I didn’t compare them, I was asking YOU if you did. Oh- but I forgot, you’re perfect.

You can tell when someone is good,,thats when the left tries to tear them down

More of Sarah Palin’s high fashion campaign bills are coming to light. The total is now up to $338,000. That’s $173,000 for clothes and accessories and $165,000 for the three stylists who pomped and circumstanced her. (I can “progress” the English language too.)
Palin, who once denied the $150,000 figure now says she “had no idea taxpayer money was being spent in this way.” Whadda genius.

I am a moderate whom basically votes democrat. I don’t fear Sarah Palin or any candidate. bush finally woke up the population to this I’m not very intelligent but we could share a beer together & ignore reality type. Face it, Sarah’s no braniac. She charms people & has the salesmanship to sell ice to Eskimos (no offense Eskimos). It’s gotten her a long way but leading the USA & representing us to the world is a bad movie we’ve all just watched. If the hard right want her to represent them & believe she’s their most qualified candidate, then I say “Go For It”. Also, if you want to compare gaffes or embarrasing moments. Lets bring up Sarahs’ interviews, her expense sheet, her scandals, McCains’ senior slips, THEIR pastors, & don’t get me started on bush, etc. etc. etc. Dwelling on the 57 state slip is very desperate. Graduated from Harvard (with honors) ends any doubt about Obamas’ record or intelligence level. Weigh out the pros & cons & that’s why she’s back in Wasilla. Oh & to maybe work on the values, in her own home, that she would like to impose on everybody else, whether she lives by them or not.