The person I supported during the election was McCain, far more than Palin. I criticized Palin for her creationist views, while taking at face value her pledge that she wouldn’t try to push it into schools — with the caveat that she would just be vice president, and couldn’t do much harm anyway.

Not exactly full-throated support.

None of that has anything to do with her intelligence or lack thereof. The more I saw of her, the clearer and more obvious her dim-wittedness became.