Do you think Palin is too dumb to realize she's making a fool out of herself?

[marmar]

I honestly have never seen anything quite as pathetic as that Katie Couric interview. The "What a dumbass!" look on Couric's face said it all.

[nradisic]

1. Yes....just like W

She has no clue.

[Gato Moteado]

2. she knows she's not qualified for the position.......

....but she might not know how dumb she really looked.

remember, she doesn't have to fool you and me....she just needs to fool the exact same idiots that voted for bush in 2000 and 2004. they're dumber than palin.

[BanzaiBonnie]

18. She thinks being pretty and flirty

will get her somewhere. And it may. My hope is that perhaps even Elizabeth Hassel-whatever, from The View will see through the act. But I won't hold my breath.

[Virginia Dare]

27. Did you see the pics of her with the President of India?

she was actually doing her little dick tease number on him, and he looked mortified. She's like the Jessica Simpson of the political world.

[Sequoia]

42. What does that mean?

[jakem]

3. She may know- but she can't very well get out of it now!

[liberal N proud]

4. Oh yeah

She is an egomaniac who can't see past her own nose to know what others think of her.

[LaurenG]

5. Yep - I think they are keeping her out of the loop on how bad she is

or at least they were. This should get really good; the debate with Biden - if they even go on with it.

[snappyturtle]

6. Yes, she is stupid.... but,but,but.....she's a quick study! nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. She's george with lipstick.

:silly:

[ixion]

8. watching a young turks clip, I noted that Couric gave an

exasperated "What?" during one of Palin's answers. I think that says it all.

And to piss off a status quo cheerleader like Couric, you've got to be very close to the town idiot.

Palin, apparently, is Queen of the Idiots.

[leftchick]

9. she is a narcissist

and does not recognize her failings. Much like the chimp.

[godai]

14. Yes, she's thrilled to have gotten so far n/t

[Javaman]

38. Bingo!!! We have a winner!!

you hit it on the head. For sometime now I have been trying to figure out what it was about her that just inherently pissed me off about her.

And there it is, she has a deep massive ego induced unwavering love of herself.

[Overseas]

61. The Lord has chosen Her to Lead and she is doing His Will. //n

[dipsydoodle]

10. She is an embarrassment

which the USA has yet to realise overall - present company excepted. She is making a fool of the USA to the whole world.

edit spelling.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. No, her voice and body language shows she knows she

is way over her head. She doesn't even believe the lines she is saying,
but sees no way out.

[BobRossi]

12. No question, however.

Just how dumb are those that support her?

[shadowknows69]

13. I'm considering moving to Alaska to run for Governor

I'm mean how fucking hard could it be?

[Cleita]

54. Hey move to California and you too can be Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Just make sure you have Darryl Issa paving the way for you with his millions and oh, yes you will have to take it up the ass from the Republican Party to make sure you are the ones the Deibold machines select.

[ThoughtCriminal]

56. You have to willing put an (R) next to your name

I would rather tatoo "666" on my forehead.

[izzie]

15. No, as many think like that. I think it is crazy but many more than

I can vote. After all many think your skin color has some thing to do with your IQ and the world is 4000 years old. I fear you and I are not always in the right lane when it comes to what people think and what they will vote on. Just who won in 2004 any how?

[Mist]

16. I think Palin dimly perceives she's not the hit she was a couple of weeks

ago, but she has no clue why that is.

[hlthe2b]

31. Sure she does... she referred to it when she was discussing

reaction to her "Alaska close to Russia = major foreign policy creds" responses-- when Couric had to give her a term (as she was infitinely grasping), "mocking" as to the response of the media... She wanted so badly to light into the media, started, and caught herself.


She blames the media for all of her failings. :eyes:

[NJmaverick]

17. The more important question would be, is the Country too dumb

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. No, she knows

That's part of what made the Couric interview so uncomfortable. She's bombing and she knows it.

She's also very thin skinned. Her response to the fact that "I can see Russia from here" has become a national joke was very angry. She seemed genuinely irritated by that, which is big big negative for a politician.

I truly can't see how the GOP wins this election after THAT performance. She is not ready for a middle management position, much less vice president. She is simply unprepared for the post, in the same way I am unprepared to start in left field for the Cubs.

[WillieDee]

28. she IS qualified

She is qualified to be a hostess at Applebee's. That's about it.

[flor-de-jasmim]

20. OK, so let's say we take them at their word--that's she's a quick study...

what in the world was she saying a month ago before we got to hear her?! Maybe this is already "tremendous" improvement? That's even scarier.

But the truly frightening thing is that there are so many people who seem to be equally unaware and would vote for her in a heartbeat (I almost wrote heartBREAK...a Freudian slip!).

[lpbk2713]

21. "You can't REALLY be this fuggen stupid!?"

... must have been going through Couric's mind over and over.

Now we know why McLame has kept a lid on her.

Lady Bullwinkle is funnier than Dennis Miller. :rofl:

[Danieljay]

22. I almost feel sorry for her. Hey, I said ALMOST. When we win this thing, then I will.

Shallow, I know, but our future is on the line here.

[lunatica]

23. A smart person would KNOW they're not qualified to be VP

Palin is a person who doesn't think in terms of being qualified or of intelligence as a factor. I had a supervisor who was like Palin. She managed to get herself promoted through deception, ass kissing and playing the hurt victim when her incompetence showed. She would go to her boss and basically play the child who needs guidance from the big strong boss. She got hired because she simply lied about her abilities and experience and because she knew how to brown nose her boss. Kind of like Palin asking Kissinger to send his wisdom her way while giving him that in-your-face direct stare she has. That stare tends to make the person being looked at feel as if she's totally engaged in them to the exclusion of the rest of the people there. That's why you see men wilt and smile foolishly when she looks at them. She confuses them.

She isn't intelligent as most of us define intelligence. She's cunning and uses her 'assets' to get her jobs, but then she has no clue that she's fucking it all up. She thinks that's normal, if she ever even bothers to think about it. She will get the people under her who are competent to do her job.

[hlthe2b]

36. Exactly... and these types of incompetent "climbers"

develop their retaliatory, manipulation and vindictiveness skills as a way of maintining, gaining power, rather than thinking they need to actually develop some skills. Yup, definitely Bush*-Cheney in a skirt.

[L. Coyote]

37. This is what the witch huinter prayed for. Trust in his prayers.

Just doing God's will (LOL), so she KNOWS it will all turn out as God and Jesus intend.

It wasn't easy to find someone willing to participate in a campaign like McCain's.

[lunatica]

41. In my experience, women who are Republicans

Have a rather incurious mindset. They are legion in middle management and they've totally bought into the hierarchical structure of kissing up and kicking down. I know quite a few who were treated badly by their managers and who cried and bewailed that treatment only to be promoted and instantly take on the role of treating their underlings badly. It's as if they think that's the correct way, or the right way. No imagination.

They also don't suffer from being able to be objective and see both sides of any issue. They become The Manager as they've experienced it as underlings. It's just 'the way it is' and the way it will always be because nothing evolves.

Talking to them has made me realize that they've made up their minds and facts just serve to confuse them, so they disregard facts.

[Orsino]

24. No. Otherwise, her arrogance would drive her away from her captors...

...and into big-time press debacles. She's doing only the minimum of PR, because she knows something of her limitations.

[old mark]

25. At her age, she should be used to it.

"America's Most Smartest VP Candidate"......


mark

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

26. Undoubtedly

She actually makes the Chimp look smarter than he is and I thought that was impossible. Moosey pegs the Stupid-O-Meter.

She is the Duchess of Dumbfuckistan.

[hlthe2b]

29. She's undoubtedly surrounded by sycophants who don't dare

tell her anything negative.... As bad as she is now, if she truly melts down and loses all misplaced confidence, we just might see the apocolypse she and her ilck have been promising....:evilgrin:

[izquierdista]

30. Couric is a low bar herself

Can you imagine if Palin was sitting across from a REAL journalist, like Dan Rather or Bill Moyers?

[dynasaw]

32. Note her body language

editorial by Judith Warner on Palin's interview with Kissinger:

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/poor-sarah/

"I saw a woman fully aware that she was out of her league, scared out of her wits, hanging on for dear life. I saw this in the sag of her back in her serious black suit, in the position of her hands, crossed modestly atop her knees, and in that “Mad Men”-era updo, ever unchanging, like a good luck charm. . . .her own folded hands, her hopeful, yet sinking posture, her eager-to-please look. Sarah Palin is their — dare I say our? — inner Elle Woods."

[Toucano]

33. No, she doesn't realize it. Just like Katherine Harris. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

34. No, she isn't that dumb. She knows she's made a fool of herself.

She's now trying to salvage her dignity.

She would be very happy to get a do-over for the last six months or so.

[LiberalHeart]

35. I think she realizes it. You can see the weariness setting in. And her search for....

...the word caricature showed her mind isn't skipping along like a nicely oiled machine. There's a kink in her gears all of a sudden and she looks a bit scared. I suppose it'd be like someone thinking they're stepping into the wading pool only to discover they're in the deep end and they can't swim.

[deutsey]

39. No, she's protected againt our witchcraft.

:evilfrown:

[dkofos]

40. I'm not suprised Couric could recognize a dumbass. She does look in the mirror every day.

[Contrary1]

43. It's being reported that her most idiotic responses were edited out.

For example: The worst thing Cheney has done: Shooting his friend in the face was supposedly the answer.

I do hope Palin pisses somebody at CBS off enough that the rest of the interview gets out.

[lunatica]

44. Being a gun toting gal herself

She probably does believe Cheney is a moron. In her pelt laden hunting circles that's the stuff of guffaws!

[Morning Dew]

45. do you have a link?

to where it's being reported.

[Contrary1]

49. On Morning Joe today:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/26/81617/1783/155/611072

Video here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26901479#26901479

[Morning Dew]

50. thank you very much

she really is a nutbag.

[Contrary1]

51. I just edited to add the video:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26901479#26901479

[Karenina]

57. Due to usage restrictions

we are UNABLE to provide this video... :shrug:

[lpbk2713]

46. Maybe Letterman will get a copy for us..... LOL

He's probably looking for a way to even the score.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

47. Why is it we can see this

yet there are people who LOVE her? Why why why???
She's a stupid woman. She's so stupid she doesn't even know she's stupid. Does she think that acting flirty is all it takes. She so ignorant. I'm stunned that people love her and want her to run the country.

[Gwendolyn]

48. She knows, but seems so resentful that her foolishness is being exposed.

She must be aware. Among those hacked emails there was at least one from a friend commiserating over the flaying she was getting from the media.

You could tell she knows and is really starting to feel cornered, by the way she's given up trying to sound intelligent or knowledgeable.


Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples?

Palin: I’ll try to find ya some and I’ll bring 'em to ya.

[DeschutesRiver]

52. Absolutely not.

Probably a bad time to ask me, as I just dealt with a particularly aggressive and entirely stupid neighbor over a fence issue yesterday.

This woman is convinced that she is smarter than this "dumb lawyer" she is conning, will quote me the "real" law, and just believe me, not have a clue. She really truly believes she is more wired into the "truth" and knows more about how things really work than I do. And it was a funny, sort of, listening to her spout as it is to watch Palin do the same deal.

I've just had enough discussion with my real world Palin to get a real grasp of how clueless this woman is about her stupidity. There is no cure.

[Gwendolyn]

59. She's not aware of how moronic she is...

... but she IS aware that she's being made a fool of.

She may not accept the fact that she's a dim bulb, but she knows her handlers have cloistered her to avoid bad press. That's why she's beginning to appear semi-belligerent when she's called out on her positions.

[DeschutesRiver]

62. She should instead be aware that she is the one making the fool of herself all on her own

but she doesn't, and yes, I am sure she thinks "they" are doing something bad to her to cause this.

This woman can't find a way to own her failures now that she's hit the big league, because she just doesn't comprehend them. Did you hear the rumor (Politico, I think??) that from inside the McCain camp, as they tried to do mock debates/interviews, they came to the conclusion themselves that she was "clueless"? They said the attempts to cure Palin of her stupidity were "disasterous."

Man, you better duck, these wheels are coming off fast and flying everywhere.

[Cleita]

53. I think she's gotten away with bull shitting her way through life and

batting her eyelashes when caught. I don't think she knew how tough this was going to be until now. She reminds me of our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has stepped into many times himself, but she doesn't have the Kennedy clan to fall back on like he does when he needs political advice. I will be so happy when we reform our election system and never have to have narcissistic idiots in positions of power again.

[JDPriestly]

55. She is over-confident.

Naive people never realize how little they know. On top of it, she is extremely provincial. That might be OK if her provincial experience was similar to that of other Americans, if it helped her understand the frustrations of her fellow Americans. But, let's face it, I've never seen a caribou. I've only seen polar bears or even any bears in the zoo. Oil is drilled in California, but the State of California does not give me a check for my share of the royalty payments (assuming California gets royalty payments). I've never been on a snowmobile in my entire life (although I was on a sled as a kid). I have relatives in the midwest who hunt and fish a lot, but here in L.A., you have to drive a long way before you can hunt and the fishing is not what it is in Alaska.

It wouldn't be such a problem except that the eccentricities of her Alaskan lifestyle seem so central to her life. I can't imagine Palin being happy in Kansas, much less D.C. or L.A. She just wouldn't fit in. I think she got carried away with some idea that being VP would be glamorous. It would make her famous. I think she also believes that Jesus wants her to be VP and then president. God forbid is all I can say. She is not just ignorant. She is stupid. But the biggest trap for Democrats is to think that calling her what she is will make ordinary voters reject her. It won't. They will vote their hearts. They don't know much about history or economics or foreign policy either. And it's the ignorance we despise that makes a lot of people feel a kinship with her.

What we need to focus on is her lack of understanding of the reality of the farmer in the midwest, the teacher in Alabama, the plumber in Syracuse, New York. She knows nothing of their lives. She lives in the world of our ancestors much of the time -- the wide-open spaces, not in the America of today. It's that difference in experience that makes her naive and that would make people understand that she is not a good choice for the office.

[ColbertWatcher]

58. Yes! Justin Kruger and David Dunning did a study ...

Unskilled and Unaware.

[Bake]

60. Yes. That is all.

Bake