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I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about schools. I think there's a major difference between institutions and what it takes to get into and succeed at them. I don't see someone who wanders around a bunch of JCs as someone who values her education and values being informed about the world. I think she backed this up by being largely clueless about this country and other countries. I think she backed it up when she couldn't name a single publication that she read on a regular basis as a source of news. I think she backed this up by sticking to the precise talking points she was fed until the last week or so when she went off script and talked about who knows what. At no point did she project or attempt to be an image of educated and informed, and I don't have any reason to believe that she is.
As for her family, here's my point: Sarah Palin represents and self-identifies as a member of our society whose primary political agenda is to regulate how people live their lives. She's interested in abortion, gay marriage, religion in education, "Family Values" and all the rest. If she were in a position of power, she would regulate those things to impose her values on everyone else, because she really truly believes that they're the only way to live. My problem is that she failed, obviously and spectacularly to impart (as opposed to impose) those values to her own children in her own family. If she lacks the wherewithal as a parent to impart values to her own children, I think it seriously undermines her claims about who is she and where she's coming from and what she stands for.
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