Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I think Dan's stupidity was greatly exaggerated. He said dumb stuff sure, but do you think you could graduate from college, law school and pass the Indiana bar if you were actually as dumb as some of his quotes made him seem?

Maybe, but it seems more likely to me that he just didn't think as much as he should have as he was speaking.

I mean, we have a couple of Biden comments that would place him in the running for this kind of stupid too, but I doubt that most people who think that Palin and Quayle are really this stupid would accept that Biden is.

I think I know more lawyers than you, and therefore I am going to say YES. Also, Quayle was from an prominent wealthy family in the area. I think every attorney on GC is going to remember someone from their law school class who perhaps shouldn't have been there. Here's an interesting article on his legal career: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...973683,00.html

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

I think I know more lawyers than you, and therefore I am going to say YES. Also, Quayle was from an prominent wealthy family in the area. I think every attorney on GC is going to remember someone from their law school class who perhaps shouldn't have been there. Here's an interesting article on his legal career: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...973683,00.html

I think think we're talking about a different level of stupid in Quayle's publicly repeated comments and any lack of academic or legal achievement.

While I don't assume you have to be really smart to be a lawyer, I don't think if a person were actually as stupid as one would have be if Dan Quayle's quotes were indicative of his or her general intelligence, that he or she could pass the bar, even if he or she got through school based on family influence.

I'm not really making a case that Quayle is some sort of genius; I just don't think the worst of his quotes are indicative of his intelligence generally.