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I've found it hard to decide whether Palin's abdicating governorship is more good than bad or bad than good. On one hand, and this is a big hand for me, it doesn't show much for her leadership or her reliability. Cutting and running doesn't paint a good picture of her durability, regardless of whether she held her own against her detractors or not.
On the other hand, there were minor legal clogs trying to be lodged into the Alaskan government from the number of attempted investigations/lawsuits/other against her. Some may have been legitimate; most seemed frivolous. Leaving office might have been a good thing for the government of Alaska, not just necessarily for her.
As far as basic intelligence is concerned, she doesn't seem worse than your average house wife, though that just means normalcy. She gets a bonus in that she is/was at least smart enough to know how to get elected. If I wouldn't trust myself with such a position for that reason, I mean ...
Also, good call: you never did say anything about writing on hands being stupid. Bringing it up was my fault. I still hold that your remark, not using a teleprompter makes her stupid, or that a teleprompter requires intelligence to use, is nonsensical.