Viggo Mortensen on President Palin's presidential prospects

Viggo Mortensen was recently quoted in The Daily Beast on Ex-Governor Palin's political prospects. He picks the right candidate for the wrong reason. She is far smarter and more astute than old Aragorn could ever know. But when even a Hollywood bleeding heart liberal gives her credence, you know something is happening!

“Do not underestimate her ability,” Viggo Mortensen said of Sarah Palin. “She’s not going away.”

“I think it would be unwise to dismiss her because she is foolish and misinformed,” the ruggedly handsome movie hero told me. “People say there’s no way she will hold any significant office, in Congress, or as president. Don’t be so sure. I notice she’s starting to sound relatively eloquent in that superficial way she has: ‘We gotta cut taxes and we can’t keep penalizing small business’—that same old litany.

"She’s not saying anything significant but she’s stringing the words together and she’s not just saying, ‘Aw shucks, I just killed a moose in Alaska.’ She’s stringing the words together as well as George W. Bush did in the beginning.”

"The actor elaborated: 'George W. Bush got the knack of sounding a certain way. They realized they couldn’t make him sound like somebody who actually read books and cared about how he sounded—even though he had the benefits of the best possible education. It just wasn’t interesting to him to sound like he made sense and to speak English anywhere near well. But what they did, very cleverly, is say, OK, he’s just like us. He makes mistakes when he says stuff; he’s a regular guy. And I can see the same thing happening with Palin. So do not underestimate her ability. She’s not going away.' ”