Palin incompetence

My day job is with top ten department in a good but not super elite university.  Every year we get thousands of applications from bright young people who want to earn graduate degrees in our department.  We accept about 10% of them, making us selective but not super elite.  There is a category of rejects I call "delusional".  These are the ones with mediocre records who are confident that if they are motivated enough they can overcome the challenge of a top graduate program.  Experience, however, shows that they will be even more mediocre in graduate school than they were in their easier undergraduate classes. 

Which brings up the quote from Sarah Palin:

I believe that I am [qualified to be president] 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,...

This is delusional.  Palin clearly doesn't know much about the actual issues facing the country.  Maybe this OK when she was governor of Alsaka.  But she has not improved since she entered national politics.  "Values" alone do not make a President. We need somebody "elite".  In a country of 350 million people, surely there is someone with the right values who also knows that Russia will not impose sanctions on Iran just because we ask nicely, (or rudely in the case of Bush).