I Think Palin is Putting on an Act

[redstate_democrat]

She can't really be this dumb. No one can be this dumb and get this far, right? Maybe she is just putting on an act and then will come to the debate and sound less dumb and then appear to be "clever" for acting more dumb. Then she will win by default because it would appear she could string together words that mean something in relation to each other. What do you think? I think this dumb-bimbo act that she's been playing with Couric is a set-up for the debate.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. She could be a Method Failer.

[JuniperLea]

2. HULLLLLOOOOO!

We have a high functioning moron in the White House right now!

Your theory is toast, my friend:)

[Kittycat]

4. High functioning is going a bit far, don't you think?

Probably better to leave it at just functioning.

[JuniperLea]

29. You're right... I was being far too kind... eom

[redstate_democrat]

24. Palin makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar

If he is a high-functioning moron, Palin is brain dead.

[Danieljay]

3. look out, its a trap.... !!!!!!!!! n;/t

[tblue]

5. Wow. If that's true, she's REALLY brilliant!

[Tallison]

6. Then she's miscalculated

I think the Couric interviews have attained cultural notoriety that she'll never live down and a decent debate performance cannot erase. They have defined her.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

18. Yeah, first impressions are the most important.

Mooseburger now has an uphill battle to change perceptions.

[Tallison]

36. Exactly

In tonight's Couric interview, Palin was relatively coherent for her, but we're not hearing much about that. It's still, Jesus Christ, did you hear her last week?

Wow: Rod Dreher, the Republican columnist for the Republican National Review, is on Larry King right now talking about how no longer supports Palin, after initially supporting her. Wow. Just wow. I've never seen people distance themselves like this from their own candidate this close to an election.

[RichGirl]

26. You are exactly right.

We have heard her claim to foreign policy...the "I see Russia", Putin flying into her airspace, etc. At the debate she can memorize an intelligent statement about foreign policy and say it perfectly but that isn't going to change the fact that she has no real understanding. What we will learn about her is that she's capable of memorizing.

[torbird]

39. Exactly. It's too late.

There is no "4th quarter comeback" in presidential politics. As another, very clever DU poster said earlier today, bubbles don't un-burst.

[Tallison]

41. The Couric interview is now the White Bronco Chase of presidential politics

that'll haunt her the rest of her life.

[BlooInBloo]

7. Obviously we're doomed.

[redstate_democrat]

25. lol

:evilgrin:

[JuniperLea]

30. Obliviously we are doomed too:) eom

[liberal N proud]

8. You are telling me that a month of stupid is all a hustle?

Just so she can suddenly display this brilliant brain for 90 minutes. What does she do after the debate, return to being stupid again?

[AlCzervik]

9. No this is how low the gop has set the bar, next time they'll pick "Pet Rock"

and they'll love it.

[redstate_democrat]

28. "next time they'll pick pet rock and they'll love it"

:rofl:

[jpertello]

10. Oh....So she's actually a genius?

They say Marilyn Monroe was actually quite bright.

But Sarah Palin? No..she really IS going "full retard". I think the opinion of "letting Sarah be Sarah" is great advice! Let her show the world how truly dim she is. I can't wait for the last part of the interview where she just sits like a dead stuffed moose when asked about Supreme Court decisions.

[CrispyQ]

11. If she were sharp & actually able to answer questions without sounding like a dimwit,

they would have her in front of the cameras 24x7, trust me.

She is not an act.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Originally I thought so too...

But now, I believe she really is clueless - at least when it comes to anything outside her faux universe.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. No, she can be this dumb

I've known folks this dumb. Only they aren't running for political office.

[AlCzervik]

14. She's willfully ignorant, just like Bush.

[knowbody0]

23. I'm thinkin these willfully ignorant folks

sure seem alot happier than most. kinda like the mind is locked to not let in the negative or something

[renie408]

15. I have to think that winning the debate is secondary to winning the election

And 'acting' stupid for the past month has contributed to McCain losing any hope of winning this election.

[Geek_Girl]

16. It could be they're setting her up for low debate expectations

But even if she does ok in the debates, I think the damage has been done.

[rgbecker]

17. I think we are just not used to her and her way speaking.

In just a short time we will think this manner of speaking is perfectly normal and we will actually be able to figure out what she is saying. This is like listening to the "valley girl" speak of the 80's and the present hip hop language of today. (Neither of which I can figure out). But I am sure as we get to know Sarah and her ways we will come to realize that John McCain is a total Idiot for picking her as his running mate.

[blogslut]

19. Some people are very good at concealing their weaknesses

One can "baffle them with bullshit" easily. You'd be surprised at how far you can go, armed with a confidant attitude and moderate good looks.

[PerfectSage]

20. It's blatantly obvious Todd Palin married her for her brains and not her body.

:sarcasm:

[GoesTo11]

21. Dyslexic & ADD

How much you wanna bet?

[seabeyond]

22. well she is destroying the mccain run, so would be really stupid. oh look, stupid

again

has mccain yet to make a good choice. husband cam in and told me something today mccain did, another fucked up choice. forgot.... hm.

[pkz]

27. An act? no way...women would hate her for it

she would be hated forever....they'd change all the dumb blonde jokes and brunettes would never stand for it.

[LiberalFighter]

31. Palin didn't have to fool as many of the voters in Alaska to become Governor.

670,053 residents in 2006
488,469 are 18 or older
75,224 are Alaskan natives and low percentage not likely to have voted

413,245

211,935 Total votes in 2006 (51%)

114,697 Palin (27.7% of probable eligible less Alaskan native voters)
97,238 Knowles

Only 51.28% of voting age Alaskans voted
Only 43.38% of voting age Alaskans including natives voted.

Almost 57% of voting age did not vote.

MUST NOT HAD BEEN THAT ENTHUSED TO VOTE FOR HER IN 2006.

[quaker bill]

32. I don't think so

and further, I surmise that you haven't met or worked with many politicians, particularly Republican politicians (although the Dems have some too). I have worked with many, generally at their request.

I had the distinct displeasure of working with one former US House(r) member who arose from the ranks of a large local Fundamentalist Baptist Church. His personal history included three failed house painting businesses, a failed marriage, and then a conversion to true believer, and a bit later, Member of the US House of Representatives. I have propped doors open with inanimate objects that possessed more IQ points.

After a couple of terms in the God squad, the right honorable and "God fearing" gentleman was arrested in the parking lot of a local bar in the process of obtaining the professional services of a woman in the sexual trade.

After more than a dozen years of dealing directly with elected officials, I can say that finding a bright one is a true blessing, regardless of party.

The notion that "no one can be this dumb and get this far" is all but precisely wrong. In my experience, being that dumb is for all practical purposes a qualification in and of itself. As George Carlin was known to say "sometimes a little brain damage helps", in this case, it could well help alot.

[Canuckistanian]

33. She's a walking caricature

But I can't pin down WHO she's caricaturing.

I can't help wondering if she's REAL.

These fuckers are smart. I could imagine them grooming her since she became Mayor of Wasilla.

The fact that she's become a sensation chills me to the bone.

[City of Mills]

34. Karl Rove set us up from the get-go

24 years ago, Karl Rove hand-picked a young, aspiring girl to run in a beauty contest, which he rigged to have her win as runner-up. This set the wheels of the manchurian candidate plan into action. He later guided her campaign to win a small-town mayor's seat in far away Alaska where nobody would notice his cunning political shenanigans. After bribing, threatening and manipulating every politician inthe Alaskan political system, he had her installed as the state governer, knowing in advance that the Republican party would require a diversion for the 2008 Presidential campaign - the first to take place after his two-election coup in which he engineered the election of another politial neophyte, George W. Bush. Originally, Palin was to be the mysterious VP pick of Romney, but even Rove himself could not predict the ascension of the maverick POW candidate, John McCain. Undeterred, he went ahead with the manchurian plan, which he will complete in just a few weeks by rigging electronic vote machines to favor his party's candidate. So basically, Karl Rove has once again outflanked and outsmarted the democratic party. We're doomed. And if you read this far and took any part of this post seriously, I sincerely apologize.

[Generator]

35. Hahhadehaaha! (she really IS that dumb)

I thought that was going to be your line of thinking before before I opened the thread. Too funnay.

[Bucky]

37. No, she's not dumb. Maybe she just gets all jittery -- like when on TV or in a crisis

But no, not dumb.

[anonymous171]

38. Palin is way out of her league but doesn't know it.

Bush may have been dumb, but he was very good at absorbing information and repeating it ad nauseum. Palin lacks the Bush's talent for information absorption, which is why she comes off looking even dumber than the chimp.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. She's the ventriloquist dummy who wants to replace the aging ventriloquist in the act

like in that old Twilight Zone episode.