The debate

Oct 3, 2008 at 8:49 AM
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Look, I'm not going to trash Sarah Palin just for being Sarah Palin. There are enough people with more readers than me who can do that. I will say that if I had to be in a room with her for more than 30 seconds, I'd probably blow my fucking brains out, but that's more a personal thing.

Anyone who thinks she did well in the debate last night did not listen to answers she gave. You may have paid attention to the words, and the cadence, and the emotions she tried to stir with her various building blocks of talking points and folksy pandering, and that's exactly what her and her trainers wanted you to do. I'm sure that the last thing they told her right before she went on stage was, "When you don't know, just riff on Average Joe until your time is up."

I'm sure that by now there are written transcripts of the debate, and if you go read her answers, then I'm sure you'll agree with me. Make sure you read the question that was asked of her before the answer. Throw away everything in the answer that's not related to the question. Now throw away all of the incomplete sentences and wandering thoughts. I don't know about you, but to me she sounded like this:

                                     DUDE
                         C'mon man, who're you gonna believe?  
                         Those guys are--we dropped off the 
                         damn money--

                                     LEBOWSKI
                         WHAT?!

                                     DUDE
                         I--the royal we, you know, the 
                         editorial--I dropped off the money, 
                         exactly as per--Look, I've got certain 
                         information, certain things have 
                         come to light, and uh, has it ever 
                         occurred to you, man, that given the 
                         nature of all this new shit, that, 
                         uh, instead of running around blaming 
                         me, that this whole thing might just 
                         be, not, you know, not just such a 
                         simple, but uh--you know?

                                     LEBOWSKI
                         What in God's holy name are you 
                         blathering about?

                                     DUDE
                         I'll tell you what I'm blathering 
                         about!  I got information--new shit 
                         has come to light and--shit, man!  
                         She kidnapped herself!

I think the big winner of the evening was the moderator, for not getting up out of that chair and smacking the Governor with a fucking brick.

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Haha, great comparison. I wonder if you could do a voiceover of Palin's responses with scene from The BL - I bet you couldn't tell much of a difference.

Every time Palin answered a different question from the one that was asked, I wanted to press an electric shock button and get her to get back on topic. Of course, this would have resulted in power consumption equivalent to a large-scale "nucular" reactor, so it probably would have been infeasible to pull off.

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cheers to that, man.

i knew her speaking sounded familiar....lolz.

the boy and i were discussing last night what we, too, would do if we were stuck in a room with her. i said i'd punch her in her stupid fucking face. it might not sound much, but it'd make me feel better.

i, too, don't think she said much last night. she didn't answer questions, and even she admitted it. like i said in my blog, she was probably just looking through her notes trying to find something to say that might kiiiiind of sound relevant.

you mentioned your irritation with the word "maverick". i'm irritated with her use of words like "such as", "also", and "joe six-pack american". the "such as" and "also" thing just sounds like she was typing in MS word and she used the thesaurus to replace "and" and "like", and she's now using those words all the time to sound smart. like that episode of friends where joey used the thesaurus in word for the first time to write the adoption letter for monica and chandler. he replaced almost every word to where nothing made sense.

that's exactly what she did. i knoooooow it.

OMFG LOL!!!! Ha ha ha !!! I was pissed at something at work and this totally made me laugh!

You're right.

I think they made her go to some sort of GOP camp prior to the debates.

To be fair, the bar was set mighty low for Palin. She surpassed all of my expectations, based on that bar. And on a gut level, minus what she actually said or didn't say, she performed fine (performed being the operative word). Clearly Biden won the debate on substance, and he was quite the gentleman. Palin is style, jingoism and bad grammar, all of which appeal to a majority of "folks" in this country. Yes, she drives me nuts, and I would hate to see her in any national public office. There is no denying that she has a certain "je ne sais quoi" appeal to many Americans, and therefore she must be reckoned with. Because you can bet in 4, 8, or 12 years she will be running for President.

The moderator had sprained her ankle, so said on Oprah, so she really wasn't able to get up and smack the gov. ;)

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