The former editor in chief of Ms. magazine comes to Sarah Palin’s defense.
Palin, says Elaine Lafferty, is very smart.
Here’s how Lafferty, a Democrat, starts her article on The Daily Beast.

“It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s intelligence, coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes—God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes—suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.

You can read the rest “here.”:http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/1/

She may be as smart as Lafferty says she is. But she doesn’t seem to know much about issues that matter in a race for the White House—at least judging from her own interviews.

PHOTO: Sarah Palin and Cindy McCain listen as McCain addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Hershey, Pa. on Oct. 28. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)