Or an addiction getting out of control.

screw her and the bus she rode in on.

I don’t find it surprising that people often write better than they speak. On a keyboard, you have to slow down and consider your words. You have time to go back and quickly edit and correct and clarify. When you talk, you tend to spew forth without thought to form or content.
This is by no means a defense of Ms. Word Salad.

Or perhaps she had a 5th grader on staff to edit her emails…

Please note these emails are not all the emails.
Emails from her personal account, where she conducted Alaskan business, were not released. Considering that she set up that account, thereby violating Alaska law, FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF DOING ALL HER SHADY AND ILLEGAL ACTIONS off the radar.

Couldn’t find anything shady? That was her plan all along.
If her personal emails are ever released, that will be different.

I’d, well, um, ya know, like, ya know, agree with your point if she, um, well, um, ya know, like was not running for vice.

As an hypothesis for a vice candidate I find that ludicrous. Too long odds that her speech peculiarities would not be found charming, as indeed they weren’t. There are all kinds of speech coaches and her word salad is completely curable.

The more logical hypothesis is that she didn’t write her emails.

Write them. She wouldn’t have taken the time to write anything herself.

the guardian did a great story about [redacted] and I think we should all refer to her as such, since she clearly made sure none of the juicy e-mails would ever see the light of day.

I have several speech rules I’d like enforced for the substantial betterment of U.S. discourse. These are two.

1. You are allowed only 8 “ya knows” before the mike is taken away from you. That would pull Hillary off the mike permanently.

2. Reporters are required to say: “I’ll note for the record that you did not answer the question” before passing the mike to the next person at the press conference.

It’s dangerous to underestimate Sarah Palin by assuming she is stupid. She may be arrogant, lazy, and undisciplined but she she has been smart enough to get elected Governor and make millions on nothing more than a failed bid for the Vice-Presidency, her antics since notwithstanding.

What I find most disturbing about Palin is that she is a prime example of politicians, both current and former, representing no one but themselves, and “news personalities” cynically using politics to make bank with the complicity of a media that has abandoned any editorial authority as it chases the latest biggest and brightest shiny story. Newt Gingrich also springs to mind. If your primary concern is to make money, you’ll say and do whatever necessary to maximize your cash flow without regard to any damage that might ensue to those who follow you much less to public discourse as a whole. Palin has already demonstrated her priorities when she quit the Governorship of Alaska in mid-term to become Sarah Palin, Superstar!

Long history of Palins in U.S. politics. They often go very far.

Instead of forming your hypothesis as not underestimating Palin, I’d form it as not overestimating the U.S. voter. Desperation makes it easier to manipulate and does not lead to rational behavior.

Palin’s a mastermanipulator.

shes brilliant!

I’m going to say,again…and with no disresptect to that crazy woman Foxx, but if Sarah Palin looked like that Foxx woman, no one would have listened to her in the first place. Shame on everyone who listens to a pretty face just because the face is pretty. As we circle the drain, we have our friends and neighbors to thank.

thank you
ma always used to say consider the source

they want her to be average

Yeppers.

Ditto Bachman.

i dont think SP is pretty,she has great legs however
MB,she is attractive,till she opens her trap

Ironically, I see crazy Bachmann as more accomplished than SarahThePee….and smarter. If it were not for Sarah’s assault on the USA, I don’t think Bachmann would have been given any attention at all… pretty or not. But when she comes off as the ‘lesser’ of the crazy pretties, then she becomes a bigger threat to reality. But we all know that reality has a liberal bias, so no one will be listening. We are in deep doodoo.

and SPs voice is like chalk scrapping the blackboard

If you do read any of the emails (& it doesn’t require poring over them, they are in a searchable database), it is fairly easy to discover which emails she wrote herself. The idea that the emails show a facility in writing is laughable, and many of them are written almost exactly like she talks. They are peppered with lots of “geesh, Aaaarrrgh, unflippinbelievable, & flippin unbelieveable’s” The spelling is poor, the grammar is atrocious, and there are plenty of insults towards those who dared to cross her.

Taibbi sez she’s a card carrying member of the ‘famous bc she’s famous’ clique.

There were girls like that in my HS. Never understood it intellectually, but could not deny its existence.

I’m so far out of the U.S. mainstream that I have to take other peeps’ word for physical attractiveness. No longer an attribute that I care about, as I admitted on an earlier post.

Can see it in Palin though.

and who looks after all those children……………?

So far as media creations go, Obama is just a slicker Palin. Both celebrity puppets on a highway to hell.

And Bachmann has been schooled. She toned down, spiffed up and came off quite well at the first real debate. I think she may have knocked Palin out of the box, and that’s good. Are there no reasonable Republican women? Who will knock Bachmann out of the box. I can’t think of a single Republican woman with any credibility at all.

Many snake oil salesmen & Elmer Gantrys got very rich. They still do. Being pretty and/or smart doesn’t hurt.

Thank you for pointing that out. She doesn’t write her own books….hell, she doesn’t ever write her own twittertwat.

mediocrity is the law of the land,people like E.Warren,and Brooksley Borne,are overlooked…what was that play
Idiots Delight?

O was slick in his first prez run. Now, not so much.

Palin & Bachman still on honeymoon run, as they haven’t been given the opportunity to f-up on a job they were elected to do, under full media glare.

Plus, they don’t face relentless R attacks.

Having said all that, their favorability ratings are pretty low.

O didn’t write Dreams either.

yup…foot in the door,gained someones attention

hahhhahahhahaahahaa

It’s hard to imagine what drives the far right, but my neo-con wingnut twin brother thinks Palin is “smart” — that had my Republican father and me laughing our heads off last night as we celebrated my 93 year old father’s Fathers Day. He can see through these rubes, but my equally intelligent brother cannot. Very disappointing.

I know. And I respect him only marginally more than Palin….and less and less each day.

really is the Manchurian canidate…creepy…and Michelle and the girlz are off to Africa….poor bored lady

ya know what? they all make me sick!

that’s one (1) ‘ya know…seven more to go.

Out of curiosity, what led you to the conclusion that O didn’t write Dreams? I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.

This spring there was a wingnut on book-tv with that argument. His first point, the one I considered valid, is that writing is a skill that’s learned by practice. You don’t just “dash off” a memoir with the kind of word pictures in Dreams as your first long writing accomplishment.

I had gotten inadvertent support for that hypothesis from a niece who taught HS English in NYC who remarked on how well written it was.

I reread Dreams & saw that point immediately, something I would not pick up on my own.

The wingnut’s second point was that Bill Ayers wrote Dreams. All kinds of gobbeldy gook about same phrases used, well beyond my literary pay grade. I picked up Fugitive Days & started to reread it, but no striking similarities leaped out & bit me. In fact, Fugitive Days, with vivid word pictures (Ayers is roughly my age so spraying trees in city streets with sticky insecticides that covered one’s skin was a striking image for me, for example), struck me as very different in tone from Dreams. But who’m I to judge.

Ah yes, The New Republic whose editors once described the failure to find WMD in Iraq as “A great embarrassment.” TNR drumbeat and cheerleading for Bush’s catastrophe were ceaseless, even after their weak mea culpa. I cancelled my subscription to that sad excuse for journalism the moment I read that statement.

Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has discovered that remaining aloof from the “lamestream meedia” has kept her popularity numbers up in second place right behind the establishment Republican Mitt Romney.

She has appeared at no debates with the other wannabe presidential contenders. That may be to her advantage considering the seven pathetic contestants who recently appeared on public display in New Hampshire last week.

Sarah Palin may well become the first presidential nominee whose theatrical approach to modern politics will displace any knowledgeable or intelligent discussion of the issues.

Smile, wink, appear only on Fox News and the Christian Broadcasting Network and tell the friggin’ lamestream media to flip off.

The 2012 election will be known as the year of the Dumb if Palin wins. Will Sarah Palin, America’s 21st Century Paul Revere, come ridin’ her horse, ringin’ those bells and warnin’ that Armageddon is closer than we think? I’m a-sure hopin’ not!

kept her popularity numbers up

In the 20s? Doesn’t seem “up” to me.

In case you check back, eCAHN, I don’t KNOW. I don’t know much about anything, but I do think Obama was groomed — and, No, I don’t know by whom. He may have written the book all by himnself. I’m not terribly concerned either way. I know he is intelligent. I also know, from watching him, that he is a practicesd liar. I’m disappointed that I didn’t figure him out before I got all caught up in Hope&Change. I think you did get it. And we’re both in the same smokin’ pile.

Did check back.

Some have accused me of being hopelessly analytical. I take that as a compliment.

Sorry, my fellow Dems our problem is not silly Sarah Palin.

It is a bit closer to home.

Our president got bought by Wall Street–before he was even a Senator.

And it is clear from his actions upon taking office–expanding Bush’s bailout of Wall Street–first and foremost–where his allegiance lies.

Oh, yeah–Healthcare Reform–the HMO insurance cartel appreciates the Obama
Admin subsidies.

Hope you are not expecting them to cover your medical expenses–when they could pay their investors instead?

No explanation necessary, she is an idiot and a corrupt one also, too. When ask what big Supreme Court Case she found interesting, she forgot all about the controversial Exxon Valdez settlement. The justices using ancient maritime law to rip Alaskans off, cutting punitive damages from $ 2.5 billion to $ 500 million. Peanuts for the worst environmental disaster in the US prior to BP’s Gulf Oil blow off.

In another case involving toxic mining tailings, Scalia stated what better place to put toxic waste, than at the bottom of a pristine lake.

I think that there is a lot of confusion about whether Palin is smart or not.

I would bet that if she sat down for an IQ test, she would test out at 115 or a little better – fairly bright.

OTOH, she learned early on that her looks were all she needed to get what she wanted and her intellectual accomplishments are less than zero. Developing intellect is hard work and requires critical thinking – both of which are anathema to Palin.

So her aggressive, proud ignorance stands out, convincing many that she is stupid.

She has always drawn her strength from “in groups” with a tendency to attack and destroy the “outs”. Her witch hunting religion is one example, and I have no doubt that she was part of (if not the leader of) the “mean girls” in her school. The nickname Sarah Barracuda is probably one of the keys to understanding her. She wears it – even today – with pride. Should she ever gain national power, she will – mark my words – make Nixon’s enemies list seen quaint and mild by comparison. She has a lot of scores to settle. And she will settle them first and worry about legalities later.

I’m not sure which is more surprising… that Palin or Bush thought they could fool people (and the media) with such transparent pretense, or that so many were in fact fooled.

The latter is not such a surprise when the vast majority of people have only seen the cornball, inarticulate side.

Republican politicians only seem stupid if you think their intentions are good. I’ve made this point here before. Someone with good intentions would not support the policies they do or make the arguments they make, but if you see the politicians as calculating, power-hungry servants of a narrow, very greedy class, then it all makes much more sense.

These politicians are actors. They are the sales people for what George Carlin called the real owners of America. Palin’s job was to win over the religious hicks who were suspicious of McCain and she played her role well. The economic elites already knew Bush was one of them and gave him mountains of campaign cash. He then had to sell himself as a regular Joe you’d want to have a beer with and he succeeded.

I regard what I have block quoted above as a genuine insight. Thank you.

The edit function is not functioning. My post above should begin, “The latter is not such a surprise….”

Okay, now maybe it is functioning?