Hey, we KNOW Palin is stupid right? So facts that indicate she is not stupid are an anomoly and facts that indicate she IS stupid are valid. In this way, you never have to revise your point of view.
Years ago, a friend brought his very liberal girlfriend to our house. We got involved in a discussion. She asserted that my wife and I, based on the kind of house we live in, could never understand the plight of people who weren't born with all the advantages.
When I pointed out that my wife was the daughter of a career military enlisted man, and she put herself through college and graduate school, and I pointed out that I was the first person on my father's side to graduate from college and that I had put myself through school and also that I had lived my first 12 years in a trailer - not a double wide, either, none of that mattered to her.
She said, "Well obviously you guys are exceptional, so you still can't understand people who came from unpriveleged backgrounds who are not so exceptional."
So, Palin is stupid, and when she's smart she's still stupid, just lucky.
George W. Bush wasn't smart either, as I recall. He was just lucky to graduate from Yale, get an MBA from Harvard, and learn how to fly a fighter jet. Those things are really, really hard to do when you're as stupid as he is.
The "Media" said that GW's daddy was the reason he got through Yale and Harvard, yet, when someone on the Right makes inquiries into Obama's education, they are "racists"..
As for Obama's gaffes, I love the excuse that he was "tired from his hectic schedule and mis-spoke"