# Is Sarah Palin dumber than Ronald Reagan? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 21, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453 "2010-11-21T17:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/221 "2010-11-23T03:14:28Z")
You Are There? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/222 "2010-11-23T03:32:22Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > You Are There? Is who where? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/223 "2010-11-23T03:40:27Z")
[“You Are There”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_(series)). [70’s revival.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljs7rR3s60) ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/224 "2010-11-23T03:51:04Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > [“You Are There”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_(series)). > > [70’s revival.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljs7rR3s60) 😃 I read **Scumpup** ’s post as “are you there?” Oh well. Yes, that’s the show. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/225 "2010-11-23T08:59:04Z")
Palin made some typically choice comments when she talked to Sean Hannity yesterday. She said that she wouldn’t allow Katie Couric to interview her if she (Palin) were to run for president: > [@](#): > > “As for doing an interview, though, with a reporter who already has such a bias against whatever it is that I would come out and say? Why waste my time? No,” Palin told Hannity of Couric, according to excerpts obtained by Time’s Mark Halperin. > > “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree. I studied journalism, who, what, where, when, and why of reporting,” Palin continued. “I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us.” “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism”? That’s a sentence from someone with a Communications degree? Admittedly, it does seem that some Communications degrees these days are designed mainly to train people to look good and read a teleprompter, but jeez. She sounds like some of my least capable undergraduates. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/226 "2010-11-23T12:24:57Z")
> [@Susanann](#): > > Originally Posted by Susanann > Chris Matthews says it is obama who gives him “a tingle up his leg”…NOT Sarah. > > What are you asking “me” for? > > Ask Chris Matthews. He is the one who said it. When I heard it I didn’t get homosexual vibes from it. Nor did I instantly think of Sarah Palin. All I got from it was hyperpartisanship. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/227 "2010-11-23T12:32:13Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Palin made some typically choice comments when she talked to Sean Hannity yesterday. She said that she wouldn’t allow Katie Couric to interview her if she (Palin) were to run for president:“I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism”? That’s a sentence from someone with a Communications degree? Admittedly, it does seem that some Communications degrees these days are designed mainly to train people to look good and read a teleprompter, but jeez. She sounds like some of my least capable undergraduates. Listen pal, grammar am for people who can’t think for myself. Understanded me? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/228 "2010-11-23T12:57:04Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > You left off a couple things: > > Reagan\>Palin\> **StarvingArtist** \>fencepost\> **Susanann** > > I regret any offense that this list may cause to the fencepost I still think we need to be fair: Reagan\>Palin\> **StarvingArtist** \>fencepost\> **Susanann** \>YouTube commenter. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/229 "2010-11-23T13:52:35Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Actually, real liberals are easy to recognize - they are the ones who deny that the MSM is largely biased in their favor. > > Regards, > Shodan So are you conceding that the MSM is biased in your favor, or outing yourself as a real liberal? ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/230 "2010-11-23T13:52:44Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Listen pal, grammar am for people who can’t think for myself. Understanded me? You have to follow the rightard logic here. “Regular Average American Sarah” makes millions of dollars a year speaking. If you don’t get paid at least as much for speaking, you should clearly shut the fuck up. The woman can do no wrong, which we be hilarious (were the likes of our resident teabaggers not immune to hypocrisy and irony) of they were to recognize that’s what they used to accuse Obama supporters of doing. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/231 "2010-11-23T14:04:41Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > You Are There? I read your post wrong. Yes, _Are You There_ is the program I remember. :smack: Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/232 "2010-11-23T14:07:11Z")
“I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.” I should have known this would get picked up by my fellow Dopers. I read this on CNN this morning and just cackled with glee. If Tina Fey had written that into a skit, it would have been rejected as sounding _too_ retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/233 "2010-11-23T14:16:41Z")
In all seriousness, can a Palin supporter tell me what was unfair in the Couric interview? I admit I have not seen the whole thing, only excerpts. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/234 "2010-11-23T14:16:56Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > “I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.” That sounds vaguely threatening and my reaction is to ask Palin “Meaning what, exactly?” I feel the same way about the OP’s: > [@pkbites](#): > > IMHO, she could actually become President and push this country back to the right where it belongs. Meaning what, exactly? It’s letting people get away with bullshit that hurts the debate. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/235 "2010-11-23T14:24:46Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Listen pal, grammar am for people who can’t think for myself. Understanded me? Yo, grammar’s for chumps, bro. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/236 "2010-11-23T14:37:13Z")
> [@](#): > > I will speak to reporters who still understand that cornerstone of our democracy, that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported. And then we get to decide our own opinion based on the facts reported to us. And those were the last words Sean Hannity would ever hear from her as she abruptly hung up on him. (In the parallel universe where Palin actually means what she says.) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/237 "2010-11-23T14:49:39Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Whoa, hold on. You think she’s better known than Dwight Eisenhower or Ulysses S. Grant were? And Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson and FDR for terms 2,3 and 4 and both JFK and RFK (she said RAN not WON) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/238 "2010-11-23T15:05:51Z")
Heck, even if we only count non-incumbents, Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and Thomas Dewey in 1948 were well-known to voters, simply by virtue of having been their party’s _previous_ candidate. It’s not like the 22 million Americans who voted for Dewey in 1944 (representing 46% of the popular vote) forgot who he was when he ran again (to similar popular-vote totals, though he picked up more Electoral votes) in 1948. Stevenson picked up over 25 million votes in each of his unsuccessful bids, so one can hardly say he was an unknown during his second run in 1956. Susanann has the political memory and knowledge of a goldfish, and a particularly clueless goldfish at that. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/239 "2010-11-23T15:17:53Z")
First, Ronald Reagan was anything but dumb. And secondly, I’m on the right but if Palin got the nomination in 2012 and she was running against the pig that the Yippies put up for President in '68 then I’d vote for the pig. ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-sarah-palin-dumber-than-ronald-reagan/561453/240 "2010-11-23T15:22:24Z")
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