Alex Koppelman at Salon gets it right in regards to Sarah Palin: First, let’s stipulate that Palin is not the dummy people are portraying her to be. She’s clever in the way George W. Bush is: She likes to be underestimated; she chooses to play the Rick Perlstein underdog “Franklin” card to undermine you and your “Orthogonian” elite chums; she opts to employ charm to get her way and deflect criticisms. Whatever one thinks of these behaviors, they take skill to deploy as political weapons, either offensively or defensively. Koppelman calls what Palin has “mad skillz,” and I think he’s … Continue reading Not Stupid, But…