Sarah Palin is an Idiot

I'm not the smartest man in the world, but I get by. Watching video though, I cannot figure out what the heck Sarah Palin is trying to say. Seriously, how was this woman elected to any office? She can barely string a sentence together.
As Keith Olbermann pointed out, Hannity has said she was a great speaker and very smart at the convention and when she accepted the nomination, but those were not her words, and they were off a teleprompter. Besides, the majority of those speeches had already been written before Palin was even chosen. That was her reading off somebody else's words like a trained parrot. And then, because the republicans know full well that she can't be relied upon to come up with her own viewpoints (such as her view on creationism or her gaff of supporting Obama's plans for Pakistan), they feed her talking points, but she can't even get those right.
Fareed Zakaria is almost too gracious. He suggests that Palin drop out of the race. As scared as I am of her actually getting a national office, I'd almost rather she stay in the race just to destroy John McCain. At least, she needs to stay in for the vice presidential debate, where Biden will no doubt wipe the floor with her.
What's worrisome though, is that she actually is appealing to some people. These poll numbers make me glad I live in London. Sure, slightly less than 50% of young evangelical women approve of her, but 46% is still far too much for a country that used to pride itself on education and the intelligence of its youth.
This woman isn't a pig in lipstick, she's a 2nd grader on stilts.