In Washington the pundits believe the college degree you hold, and from which school, determines your fitness for office.  This includes the supposedly conservative know-it-all commentators such as GEORGE WILL and DAVID BROOKS who routinely savage Sarah Palin.  In doing so, they sacrifice personal integrity for acceptance by their ever so clever colleagues and cocktail party goers in New York and Washington.

A recent column by George Will, in which he quoted the always laughable ABC/WASHINGTON POST polls, suggested Sarah Palin would bomb as a candidate.  Of course, this is the same crew who told us she’d bomb in the debates, her book would not sell and that she was finished as political entity when she left office in Alaska.  In response, some very thoughtful readers of the NEW YORK POST rose to her defense and we present these wonderful letters below.  It is a welcome reminder that the American people understand that all the supposed know-it-alls in Washington have bankrupted our country and drowned us in bureaucracy.  It’s time someone with the common sense of Sarah Palin took over.

Supporters of Sarah Palin rose to he defense in these wonderful Letters to the Editor of the NEW YORK POST.

Will, as always, has his facts straight, but the conclusions he derives from those facts are, however politely couched, missing the point.  Having a president from the academic culture was never a requirement for high public office. What Palin has in spades, as even Will acknowledges, is an authentic voice.  What she doesn’t know, she can learn, and what Americans revere more than anything else is someone who can learn. Honesty in representation is a valued commodity. Arrogance, the opposite, doesn’t fare so well.  — Steven, Manhattan

Will trivializes Palin’s term as Alaska’s governor, but she achieved more for her people in that relatively short time frame than many politicians have in an entire career.  Upon taking office after beating a tough, deeply entrenched Republican incumbent and his cronies, Palin constructed and enacted a system of splitting oil profits for the benefit of all Alaskans.  She also eliminated the pork from 85 percent of federal-project requests and put together a means of getting a natural-gas pipeline built, which will be the largest private construction project in North America.  “Seasoning” has produced the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and a host of long- term, over-privileged underachievers. — John, Galloway, NJ

Tiresome Washington elitist, commentator and know-it-all, George Will.

Will apparently has changed his mind about the virtues of experience.  When Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were competing for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Will wrote that experience is overrated. After all, Abraham Lincoln had served only one term in Congress before his election to the presidency, while his predecessor, James Buchanan, was the most experienced man in politics at the time. Buchanan is generally regarded as one of our worst presidents  Will apparently regards Palin as an intellectual lightweight. But she has never committed a gaffe as great as our current vice president who once said that when the stock market crashed in 1929, Franklin Roosevelt went on television to explain what happened.  — Sarah, Brooklyn

I am saving Will’s column, “Why Populist Palin Will Never Be Prez,” so I can mail it back to him in 2012 when he can enjoy chewing on it, along with the crow he will have to eat.  — Carl, The Bronx

I don’t think Will read Palin’s book, “Going Rogue,” because he would be able to see how determined this woman is. Palin left her job as governor because she saw a need to be more involved in our country’s welfare.  Now she is getting recognized as a prominent person in politics with common sense and a brain. People know of her ability and fear her, and the attention she is getting by being in the public eye.  Palin tells it like it is, and more and more Americans are seeing the real Sarah Palin. I don’t know where Will has been, but he is definitely in left field regarding this.  — Bob, Yonkers