I hate to say it, but I think conservative activists have become
like hometown sports fans who so desperately want their team to win
that they see EVERYthing through the lens that shows their team as
being the best -- and that therefore sees ANY loss or setback as
the result of an unfair third party, like a bad referee, or
something.
Exaggerating only slightly for effect, this was Sarah Palin's
message last night, except that just written down it doesn't
capture the cloyingness of the nasal "all" and the long drawn-out
"o" in her "also."
"Well, awl-so-o-o [also] in Alaska, mavericks in Alaska, also,
where we produce a lot of oil, also, we know that we've gotta
reform Washington, also, you-betcha!"
Sorry, but if the Democratic candidate had put forth this sort
of performance, we would all be yelling about how the MSM was
giving that candidate a pass on their utter lack of knowledge,
depth, specifics, and coherence.
This IS an actual quote from last night from Palin: "I'm not one
to attribute every man -- activity of man to the changes in the
climate. There is something to be said also for man's activities,
but also for the cyclical temperature changes on our planet. But
there are real changes going on in our climate. And I don't want to
argue about the causes. What I want to argue about is, how are we
going to get there to positively affect the impacts? We have got to
clean up this planet. We have got to encourage other nations also
to come along with us with the impacts of climate change, what we
can do about that."
And: "Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in
allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the
office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the
American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an
agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's
agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have
a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to
administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this
nation. And it is my executive experience that is partly to be
attributed to my pick as V.P. with McCain, not only as a governor,
but earlier on as a mayor, as an oil and gas regulator, as a
business owner. It is those years of experience on an executive
level that will be put to good use in the White House also."
And: "Education credit in American has been in some sense in
some of our states just accepted to be a little bit lax and we have
got to increase the standards. No Child Left Behind was
implemented. It's not doing the job though. We need flexibility in
No Child Left Behind. We need to put more of an emphasis on the
profession of teaching. We need to make sure that education in
either one of our agendas, I think, absolute top of the line. My
kids as public school participants right now, it's near and dear to
my heart. I'm very, very concerned about where we're going with
education and we have got to ramp it up and put more attention in
that arena."
Again, if Joe Biden had talked like this last night, we would be
blasting him unmercifully. We would be yelling to high heaven that
he can't put thoughts together in coherent sentences.
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