Okay. Disclosure: I went to law school. Big whoop. I’ve got kids who are in or have been through middle school – and that is where you first learn about Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda and even in the supplements they get from Newsweek or TIME, Bush v. Gore.
And yet Alaska Governor and GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin could not even mention summarily issues that SCOTUS has written about that matter to conservatives such as the death penalty, the gun law from DC that got panned this past term, school prayer or school vouchers. There were hundreds of ways she could have responded without having to name or even know the name of a single court case. But she is so over-confident in being told that she is in fact qualified to be VP when she isn’t that she is in too deep to ever say when she doesn’t know something. That is her single biggest flaw. Sarah Palin is a walking example of why students should take proficiency exams because either no one taught her, she wasn’t listening, she doesn’t remember or she doesn’t care.
None of those reasons suffice for the person we’re expected to consider as eligible and qualified to be vice president or president of our country.