Republican Staffer Paid to Publish Essay Defending Palin’s Intelligence

Over at Hot Air, Allah’s got this under the headline “Quote of the Day”:

Now by ’smart,’ I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a ‘quick study’; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her ‘confidence’ is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.

That’s Elaine Lafferty arguing in the Daily Beast that “Sarah Palin is very smart.” To add credibility to the claim, Lafferty points out that she’s a Democrat.  Of course, she’s also a Palin “consultant” and she doesn’t mention that she’s paid by the McCain campaign for her time. 

It makes sense, really. Most people who can put a sentence together would have to be paid to argue in public that Sarah Palin is anywhere near “smart,” much less “very smart.”

And by the way, if Sarah Palin is so smart, why doesn’t she hold a press conference? Why is the campaign preventing her from answering questions? Why when she gives interviews to local reporters does the campaign require the reporter to clear the topics of the interview with the campaign ahead of time?

Oh, that’s right. Because people like Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric are mean to her, making her get “annoyed” and in her annoyance she purposefully gives answers that make her look like a complete moron. That’s not because she is a complete moron, of course. Damn elite media.