Sarah Palin was on The O’Reilly Factor Friday night for the second part of a multi-part interview (see our highlight reel of Part 1 here, and stay tuned for the Part 2 highlight reel coming later this afternoon).
When Bill O’Reilly asked the “very bold and fresh” question of whether she believed she was “smart enough, incisive enough, and intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world,” Palin gave a confusing if not entirely unpredictable answer.
To aid in the deciphering of Palin’s response, here is the transcript:
O’REILLY: Let me be very bold and fresh again. Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?
PALIN: I believe that I am because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the the kind of spineless… a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I’m not saying that has to be me.
