You are far too generous in your assessment of the American populace.

A good education is a wonderful thing, but its not the only thing in the real world outside the ivory towers on academia.

Not everyone can drive two or three businesses into the ground and walk away with money and more willing investors.

Is there anything that Shrub has ever touched that has not turned into sh*t?

Bush didn't graduate cum laude by any stretch, and probably got into Harvard as a legacy admission.
It wouldn't surprise me if Poppy Bush paid some elitist to take W's exams for him.:-)

I'm no fan of Palin (or Franken either for that matter) but your comparison smacks of liberal elitism: Lets try that excercise with a different example.

George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard Business school, the only President to ever have an MBA. Do you think he was smarter about running the economy that you would have been. Now I don't know you, and maybe you have an MBA or better in the area, and I'd need another example, but making the assumption your not for the sake of argument, do you think he did a better job with the US economy that you could have had you been president?

A good education is a wonderful thing, but its not the only thing in the real world outside the ivory towers on academia.

Also there was a time…. say a year and a half ago that no one thought American would elect Obama to be president.

Fortunately the people making the most noise about healthcare / insurance reform are a minority of Americans. They unfortunately may have an outsized influence in the debate, but fortunately when it comes to electing people their vote counts just as much as everyone else's. Thus we can be thankful they are in the minority.

Going forward I would expect that the American people as a group have learned what the Republican Party is about these days and would not elect another national leader unless his (or her) hands are clean of the Bush/Cheney influence.

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell you…

Beautiful stone work, view of Manhattan & Brooklyn.

I don't particularly blame the American people who voted for Bush – Cheney in either 2000 or 2004. Bush and Cheney lied to the country. Even though time proved that the majority of Americans were taken in by their lies, at the time of the votes many Americans trusted the president and voted how they thought best.

I do blame Bush, Cheney and the Republicans (and some Democrats) in congress for the debacle of the eight years under Bush.

Going forward I would expect that the American people as a group have learned what the Republican Party is about these days and would not elect another national leader unless his (or her) hands are clean of the Bush/Cheney influence.

Can he govern?

That would send shivers up any alien's spine.

The perfect Republican slate in 2012: Palin for President, Hannity for Vice-President. Whooppee!!

I'm a Democrat.