The Tragic Reality of Drill Baby Drill

The shallowness of Sarah Palin’s intellectual development does not allow the tragic consequences of greed or ignorance to tarnish her self-indulgent worldview. That she could have been one heart beat from the Oval Office illustrates how widespread is the fallacy that home-spun grit is always superior to the brilliance of the educated mind. Mediocrity means never having to say you’re sorry.