Editor,
I just watched the ABC interview with Gov. Sarah Palin. She seems scarily ignorant and yet scarily certain in her views. Perhaps she is too ignorant to know she is ignorant, much like Condoleezza Rice, who has the brains but is always impeccably confident and must always be right in interviews while defending her boss.
With a Palin interview on Sept. 11, timing seems to be tacitly more important in this campaign than openness. The Grand Old Party has become astoundingly cynical in its pick but brilliantly shrewd in knowing that a likable, loyal candidate who looks great on TV is more important to voters and the party than is knowledge or intelligence. I guess our president is more evidence of that.
It's style and form over substance on television. Ever since President Reagan hired Everett Koop, who was loyal to science rather than the party line, the party has been reluctant to hire anyone with brains and who brings the risk of acting independently. Palin is the latest in line, using the best marketing strategy for average conservative and independent voters who just want change from someone outside the beltway. Our democracy is in deep trouble as long as Madison Avenue expertise and ever-increasing lobbyist money is in the driver's seat.
Bill Niendorff
UNM student
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