> What impresses liberal elitists is a pedigree. What conservatives like is a plain talking results driven common person. What impresses liberal elitists is a pedigree. What conservatives like is a plain talking results driven common person. What impresses liberal elitists is a pedigree. What conservatives like is a plain talking results driven common person.

On this, you may have a point. I would ask, however, what is it in her record that has been so successful? Was it the debt she added to Wasilla? Was it her shady handling of staff re-organtizations? Was it her record of unqualified appointees?

In the case of Obama, you also cannot point to any serious executiv "results" aside from running what has been a reasonably strong campaign. However, the academic results that form his pedigree are hardly something to sniffle at. He's a guy who has been successful at just about everything he's ever tried to do.

Palin can't make that claim.