WEIRS BEACH, NH — Sarah Palin told a crowd gathered at this lake side resort that it is good to be in the Northwest because people in New Hampshire just get it. That would be everyone except Palin.
Perhaps Palin meant to say Northeast instead of Northwest. That would still be wrong as this part of the country has been called New England for more than 300 years. I guess that Palin missed that while reading ALL of her newspapers.
Sure there are some similarities between New Hampshire and the Pacific Northwest, but far more differences. The fact that the vice presidential running mate of a major party was so ignorant that she thought she was on the other side of the country speaks volumes about who Sarah Palin is and her total absence of even rudimentary intellectual curiousity. Even George W. Bush has a greater zest for learning than she does.
Then again why would a card-carrying member of the AIP care about the lower 48. She and the First Stalkerwant Alaska to succeed from the Union. Still she should have a better understanding of geography than Miss South Carolina.
Is that too much to ask?