Palin is rambling like a fool...

[CoffeeCat]

Man, please--just give me a time machine. Fast forward 2 weeks--when Barack Obama
is the President, and ignorant fools like Palin are relics of the past.

One minute, she's calling Barack Obama "a socialist"--the next she's being rolled
out as some kind of energy expert.

This woman is a flake. A flake that the McCain campaign dresses up in $2,000 suits--and
wants us to believe is "an energy expert." I wouldn't take advice from her about which kind of
margarine to purchase.

Yet, she's on my television--blabbering on about "energy."

Stop the carousel of insanity. I want off the ride. Watching Palin--a person who is
impossible to take seriously--being marketed as a serious vp candidate in our country---it's just mind blowing.

Palin represents how low our country has sunk.

[sfam]

1. Its funny how tinny her voice and cadence sound when she tries to talk "serious"

It just doesn't work all that well. And yeah, she is definitely rambling.

[CoffeeCat]

6. She's rambling, and speaking too fast...

She seems nervous.

I'm just so done with this nonsense.

[ladjf]

31. No matter what the topic, she still has that "high school" sound.nt

[Sulawesi]

2. "like a fool"...well, that fits

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. lol! Is she talking about the gas pipeline that there are no promises to build???

:rofl:

[Lakerstan]

4. I was just about to post: "WHAT THE "F" IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?"

BLAH BLAH BLAH

[H2O Man]

5. She is having

some trouble delivering this speech.

[sfam]

9. Probably because McCain's speechwriters think she's a Wack Job...

I bet she was stuck on her own with this...

[H2O Man]

12. The conflicts within

the McCain-Palin campaign are surely the cause for her obvious discomfort.

[CoffeeCat]

15. I'm sure that last night was interesting...

After she heard that the McCain camp called her "a whack job", I'm sure some
extraordinary words were exchanged.

Holy buckets.

Can you imagine this happening with any other campaign?

Can anyone imagine Bush's team, telling the press that Cheney "is a whack job"?

This is totally insane.

I'm listening to her now, and it seems like she's just struggling to get through this
speech--hurrying, just so she can get the hell off the stage.

Maybe Nicole Wallace roughed her up a bit, before she went on stage. ;)

[H2O Man]

16. Whenever such

internal conflicts become public before an election, it is a sure sign of defeat.

I agree that she is hurrying now, and wants to get off stage. I expect more evidence of a breakdown in the campaign within the next 36 hours.

[CoffeeCat]

24. Joe Trippi was on CSPAN last night...

talking about how the McCain camp's current rhetoric signifies that they know they've lost the race.

Trippi said that they are solely playing to the base now. All of the nasty red meat they're throwing
out--is an attempt to at least get the base to the polls. They aren't even trying for the Independents,
undecideds or any Democrats that they might be able to snag.

Trippi said, that at this point--they are trying to avoid a landslide--and they're only hope of that is
if their base voters get to the polls.

I thought that made a great deal of sense.

[H2O Man]

27. Right.

McCain knows that he lost. His goal in campaigning is to try to keep their party from losing a large number of seats in the House and Senate, as well as in state and local elections. If the democrats win the number of elections that are now within reach, McCain's 2008 campaign will tie his political career's "highlight" to a historic, humiliating defeat for their party. McCain wants Bush & Cheney to be the most closely associated "cause" of the historic, humiliating defeat, not him.

[CoffeeCat]

14. She seems nervous....

She's given good speeches. We've all seen that.

This isn't one of them.

Hopefully, she's finally realizing that she's totally out of her league.

Life is like a banquet at Tavern on the Green--and Palin is an out of place Twinkie.

I'm so tired of her being paraded around as a serious person.

[H2O Man]

19. Yep.

The self-confidence isn't there today. I suspect that there were some internal conflicts in their campaign that are more severe than what the media reports (and their reports are documenting serious problems).

In the past week, Palin has -- to quote Chris Matthews -- "divorced McCain and started dating Ronald Reagan," with her eyes on 2012. Maybe she has been contacted by the republican family court.

[Clio the Leo]

7. She's giving me a headache.....

... and it's SOOO obvious she's not comfortable speaking unless she is taking jabs at "her opponent." I fully expect her to leave the script and burst out with "He's gonna raise your taxes! Joe the Plumber told me so!" at any moment.

[Virginia Dare]

8. She gets loonier as time goes on...

all those hypnotized crazies who hang on her every vapid word just feed into her psychotic delusions. It's one of the scariest things I've ever seen.

[terrya]

10. They say that anyone can aspire to higher office.

That doesn't necessarily mean that anyone is QUALIFIED. There are people clearly unqualified to be Vice President or President. Sarah Palin is absolutely one of those people. And I certainly wouldn't presume to think I'm qualified for either office.

[Lakerstan]

11. She's seeing Russia again!

[No Elephants]

36. I suspect meth fumes.

[onehandle]

13. Bush will still be President in 2 weeks.

Obama will be President in 83 days.

Palin's 15 minutes is just about up, but her type of crazy will live on. The GOP will fracture and the crazy will take over. And they will be out of Power for a generation.

"Permanent Republican Majority"

[QueenOfCalifornia]

17. She wants to

DRILL

She's a go getter... :rofl:

She is calling Biden the "6 term senator." Like it's a bad thing.... Her GOP Alaskan senator is such a swell guy.

I hope she gets used to saying Vice President Biden.

[LiberalFighter]

18. Is it really smart to let her talk as long as she is talking?

She apparently started at 9:45 and it is now 10:14

Finally over!! 30 minutes of rambling.

[H2O Man]

20. No.

Definitely not.

[nc4bo]

23. ..and now M$M is giving validity to this "speech". wtf.

[nc4bo]

21. Who ever wrote this garbage should be fired. I wonder if she wrote it? nt

[hisownpetard]

22. Sarah - Can you see Armageddon from your window?

[Critters2]

25. I kept thinking "Doesn't she have a speech writer"?

And a speaking coach?

[ITsec]

26. American Idol...

...and stupid shows like that are a part of the reason we have what is being offered by the RepubliPukes today. They play to the lowest denominator of society who are hypnotized by shiny stuff.

It's not about serious and potentially deadly issues facing this country anymore like the tragedy of health care, or an economy that is on the precipice of a depression, or the shredding of the Constitution and foundation of this country, or the preemptive and illegal occupation of foreign sovereign nations.

For the RepubliPukes, it's become a campaign of winks, lip smacks, designer clothes, hair-doos, and lipstick. It's a campaign of "anybody can become president", even you Joe six pack, or you Joe the plumber, or you the MILF hockey mom from Alaska. You don't need an edumacashun, we can train you in 6 easy months for the highest office in the land. Visa and MC accepted, slightly higher west of the rockies, member FDIC, penalty for early withdrawal, apply only to affected area, may cause itching, vertigo, dizziness, tingling in extremities, loss of balance or coordination, slurred speech, temporary blindness, profuse sweating, or heart palpitations, use only as directed, limited time offer, call now, 1-800-BR-549 and we'll throw in your own personal tanning bed in the oval office.

Pathetic.

I used to say, "I want my country back". The good news is we WILL wake up in 7 days to that dream, and the beginning of a new era where the weak are cared for, the economy rebounding, jobs brought back to THIS country, and a new respect for us by the rest of the planet.

[CrispyQ]

37. Did you catch this article on Common Dreams yesterday?

Highly recommended!!

How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington
The degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics results from a series of interlocking tragedies

by George Monbiot

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/28

snip...

How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind's closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and other such gibbering numbskulls get to where they are? How could Republican rallies in 2008 be drowned out by screaming ignoramuses insisting that Barack Obama was a Muslim and a terrorist?

more...

It wasn't always like this. The founding fathers of the republic - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and others - were among the greatest thinkers of their age. They felt no need to make a secret of it. How did the project they launched degenerate into George W Bush and Sarah Palin?

On one level, this is easy to answer. Ignorant politicians are elected by ignorant people. US education, like the US health system, is notorious for its failures. In the most powerful nation on earth, one adult in five believes the sun revolves round the earth; only 26% accept that evolution takes place by means of natural selection; two-thirds of young adults are unable to find Iraq on a map; two-thirds of US voters cannot name the three branches of government; the maths skills of 15-year-olds in the US are ranked 24th out of the 29 countries of the OECD. But this merely extends the mystery: how did so many US citizens become so stupid, and so suspicious of intelligence? Susan Jacoby's book The Age of American Unreason provides the fullest explanation I have read so far. She shows that the degradation of US politics results from a series of interlocking tragedies.

[ITsec]

39. Thank you...

I did not see that article. That pretty much nails the whole mess we're facing today.

[NewJeffCT]

40. The demonization of intellectuals started way before Bush

While liberal compared to today's Republicans, Eisenhower ran against the pointy-headed intellectual Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson famously told a woman who said that he had the vote of every thinking person, "that's not enough ma'am, I need a majority!"

and, it was decades before that where the famous satirist complained that America is going to be granted its wish of being headed by an idiot. (drawing a blank on the name right now...?)

[hadrons]

41. I have to read that Susan Jacoby's book

good find on the article

[Batgirl]

38. This piece in Salon from the other day expands on your premise

about Palin:

"Sarah Palin, ultimate reality TV star

Overconfident, smug, convinced of her superiority -- the vice-presidential candidate
doesn't belong in the White House; she belongs on basic cable."

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/10/27/palin_confidence/

[hatrack]

28. If you're wondering why no one is applauding, she's speaking at a solar energy company

http://wnwo.com/News/story.aspx?id=213583

Gee, I wonder why they're not getting all excited about more pipelines, more drilling, more Noo-Kyoo-Ler.

Unbelievable.

[CoffeeCat]

32. Are you kidding me?

She just spent more than a half hour--talking about oil, gas and coal to an audience
at a solar-energy company?

Did the McCain camp set that one up for her?

"Sure honey...Just get in there and start talking about how great coal, oil and gas are. They'll love
it! These people love fossil fuels! Really stress that pipeline too. Have fun! Tomorrow, we'll have
you discuss your wolf-and-helicopter hunting strategies at a PETA national conference."

Oh my... :wow:

[Marrah_G]

35. ~blink~ can they really be that stupid?

~palm-forehead~

Idiots

[ROh70]

29. Her speech was one long run-on sentence.

Didn't her coaches tell her about the benefits of pausing now and then?

[CoffeeCat]

34. or taking a breath...

...every few minutes?

I agree with H2O Man. She's stressed.

If they're deliberately telling the press that she's a "whack job", can
you imagine what's going on behind closed doors?

[bluedawg12]

30. whack job selected by a nut job n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

33. According to John Sidney McCain the Third of Washington DC,

Sarah Palin knows more about energy that anyone else in the country. Dig that. Says she is an expert on energy.