This is the latest from Sarah Palin:
BLITZER: Does that mean you want to come up with a new Sarah Palin initiative that you want to release right now.
PALIN: Gah! Nothing specific right now. Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.
Does she know what a sentence is? Here's another one, this time from Maureen Dowd's column today:
“My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”
And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”
These words make little or no sense. I'm in the middle of the second big grading binge of the semester and none--none--of my undergraduates write or sound like Sarah Palin. She literally could not earn an undergraduate degree from Corn U., if these two instances are representative. From what I've seen of her current media barrage, they are.
So, the party of Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley, Richard Weaver, and even Lynn Cheney and Diane Ravitch thinks Sarah Palin is their Moses? Really. And they were perfectly willing to place her a 72 year old cancer survivor's heartbeat away from the presidency. Really.
If there's better evidence that the Republican Party is not now fit to govern (like the British Labor and U.S. Democratic Parties of the mid-eighties) and needs time in the wilderness, I don't know what that evidence could be--apart, of course, from the last eight years. But she makes Bush look like an intellectual giant. He is literate. Is she? Seriously. Is she?
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