I finally get it....guess what? The Thugs have discovered...

[Stuart G]

that Palin is really stupid. Yep, after trying to teach her a few things about dealing with the press and others, she is probably unteachable. She is just plain stupid. That is what this is all about. Because someone unteachable cannot go on the national stage and present themselves as "unteachable and really stupid". Doesn't work. (of course, that is not what the Thugs wanted in the beginning.. .. but if you look at the Couric interview of yesterday, you will see, that is what she is. ..(by this time, she should be a little more along the way to acting and sounding smarter, but you cannot teach a old dog new tricks if the dog is really very stupid)

[grannie4peace]

1. stupid is as stupid does!!!!!!

[Stuart G]

2. It is actually stupidier than that... nt.

[okieinpain]

3. that's what crossed my mind. this whole delay the debate is

just a way to try and cancel the vp debates. stupid repug's, they will believe anything.

[SmokingJacket]

4. I think that's true, not a "quick study" at all.

I was stunned at how unprepared she was. I feel like after a couple of weeks of prep, even *I* could blurt out a coherent sentence for that hard-hitting journalist Katie Couric.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. This is why she spent 3 weeks reading her same campaign speech at every stop. n/t

[dkf]

6. I have a feeling that she is beginning to be overwhelmed, and the panic is starting to show.

When she was first picked, her natural confidence allowed her to project a pretty good face to the Repub Convention.

But now that they are cramming her brain with information and she has an inkling of the immense amount of info she doesn't know, she is beginning to get very shaky.

And she's starting to get into BS mode like the guy who is trying to impress you with big words, but uses them all wrong.

[Stuart G]

7. I agree completely....Like all arrogant fools, she thought she

could pull this off. But she can't. She is likely to implode.. It will be sad to watch, but her selfishness and arrogance brought her and her party to this point. Couldn't happen to nicer folks.

[snake in the grass]

26. On the contrary!

It will be a joyous spectacle to watch and I hope she goes down really hard in an extremely humiliating way. This may work as a shock therapy for some of the undecideds out there who see her outsider status as something positive. Most likely it won't go down quite so bad, but one can always hope. In any case, the McCain/Palin ticket will find its rightful place in the garbage bin of history and we will have absolutely glorious YouTube videos to watch for years to come.

[gblady]

19. I agree....

during the first part of the CBS interview even her voice was shakey
when she was trying to recall what her answer should be...

[RichGirl]

24. The way she will repeat the same answer word for word....

...is just plain freaky. I wonder...maybe she's the first human robot. Maybe if you cut her she bleeds axle grease.

[jazzjunkysue]

38. I agree. It's easier to feel smart when you're not in the presense of smart people.

She initially felt she deserved the convention microphones because of her born-again bs evangelical "calling." I think she could initially say to herself: "This isn't about me, personally, but it's about putting the "believers" into power."

But, now that the real, human, TV/media/campaign handlers are working her over night and day, she's realizing she's not ready to do the earthly political part necessary to be a pretender for christ's political missions.

She's a silly little girl, and it's showing, up, and they've made the decision not to let her debate Biden, no matter what it takes.

Serious buyer's remorse, all around, from, getting Gramps as a candidate to his choice of the cheerleader.

The RNC is good at the packaging game, but they can't make these two pertenders over into presidential material, no matter how hard they try.

[MadrasT]

8. Not only is she really stupid, she seems like she

also had that fatal combination of stupidity, arrogance, and know-it-all that resists education.

GOP train wreck in progress... "News at 11..." "and 12..." "and 1..." :rofl:

[Historic NY]

9. but.... but she is experience at being stupid...okay Charlie.

[Kind of Blue]

10. It's too much for any one to learn in such little time.

To me, it's just that they're trying to cram a lifetime of good governing and geopolitical experience into a governor who doesn't give a damn about kids, women, animals, and the environment in her own jurisdiction, so she's not even a decent human being to begin with. There's just way too much that comes across on so many levels, firmly rooted in experience, that can't be hidden or learned in so little time.

[WinkyDink]

15. Not to mention American history, the Constitution, and an adult vocabulary.

[Kind of Blue]

33. Yeah, I forgot abou those

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

28. But she can slaughter a moose!

What else do you people need? Sheesh.

[Kind of Blue]

34. I know! We ask for way too much.

[IndianaJohn]

36. her intellect

I honestly believe that she does not have the intellect to even process the info that she is being fed. It's all just a big jumbled mess in that big head of hers. If she doesn't understand what is in her head then there is no way that she can utter anything remotely intelligible.

My burning question is...what gimmicks are they going to use to keep her from debating?

[Kind of Blue]

40. ...big jumbled mess in that big head of hers...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Perhaps you're right but you gotta admit that it's an awful, awful lot to process, especially for a vacuous person. I stopped following her rote speeches and ridiculous interviews after this one, "Oil of coal, course, it’s a fungible commodity. And they don't flag, you know, the molecules where, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the, in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. So I believe that what Congress is gonna do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans who get stuck holdin’ the bag, without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s gotta flow into our domestic markets first."
About the gimmick, we'll just have to watch the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show to see if they can pull another rabbit out of their asses.

[seabeyond]

11. yup. n/t

[SurfingAtWork]

12. I don't get it.. I mean, it isn't like she has to be a beacon of intellect

Bush "won" two times after all

[Stuart G]

13. I don't think she needs to be "a beacon of intellect..just honest and straightforward..

So far, she hasn't even been able to sound intelligent without her talking points. No thoughtful answers or appearance of any thought process at all. At least for a while, Bush sounded like he had a brain, Sara sounds totally empty...

[WinkyDink]

16. "Won"? I think not.

[SurfingAtWork]

17. Good point. I edited and put won in " "

[Ignis]

42. Which brings us to this troubling proposition:

We have actually found someone dumber than Shrub.

Who knew it was possible? :shrug:

[DangerousRhythm]

14. Sarah Doolittle = FAIL

It's ridiculous how they've sheltered her... and for this? That Couric interview (COURIC!) was even more damning than "In what respect, Charlie?"

What an embarrassment for them.

[Bluenorthwest]

32. Lipstick on a Pygmalion?

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the Palin? I can see Russia from the street where you live?

[Ignis]

44. *golfclap* Well played!

:rofl:

[DangerousRhythm]

46. HAHA!

Good one! :thumbsup:

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. "The founding fathers put in god we trust" in the pledge of Allegiance"

She said something like that I think.

[Lex]

20. She has little knowledge of history, world events, geography . . . .

much like Dubya, but this time the press isn't providing cover for her mistakes and wide gaps in knowledge.

[Stuart G]

22. I agree....the press isn't covering for her...Couric was

relentless in her questioning. Very surprised at her. I thought the entire interview would be softballs. No, she hit her more than once on some important ideas. Especially at the end, her stupidity shows. I think she said...I'll get back to you" or something simllar.

[RichGirl]

27. She said...

"I'll findya some and bring 'em to ya." When asked for an example of a time in his 26 years that McCain was for regulation. It was Katie's third time asking the question. She wasn't going to give in to the bullshit answers.

[RichGirl]

21. In their vetting process...

...did the McCain campaign happen to glance at the "education" part of her resume, perhaps inquire about her GPA? They are trying to get straight A's out of a C student.

Bush is not smart and they are probably in the same intelligence bracket. But, Bush has been indirectly surrounded by politics all his life. His father was president. I think most people just assumed that he knew a lot, or that daddy would "do his science project" for him.

[Butch350]

23. Hey Dan Quayle. , , McCain needs you!

[Stuart G]

25. Here is the conclusion of the interview...the last Three.. Q and A

COURIC: You’ve said, quote, “John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business.” Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?

PALIN: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie–that, that’s paramount. That’s more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.

COURIC: But he’s been in Congress for 26 years. He’s been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.

PALIN: He’s also known as the maverick though. Taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he’s been talking about–the need to reform government.

COURIC: I’m just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation?

PALIN: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.

[jazzjunkysue]

39. Couric was looking at her like she was trying to sell Couric a dead rat.

I mean, my 7th graders are more convincing when they come up with an excuse for messing up the homework.

And couric is usually the #1 GOP cheerleader. I think they were counting on that.

The press is mightily pissed at the entire campaign, and now, dodging all the interviews, rallys, and even debates, it's obvious:

These losers can't handle any of this. Period.

The press is disgusted, and probably as worried as we are.

[KayLaw]

29. So true.

How could she not know about the Bush Doctrine. Seems impossible.

[JimWis]

30. I agree also. The Repugs really got their own ass in a corner

now. Debate coming up - they must be going nuts trying to figure out how to get out of it.

[NightHawk63]

31. "you cannot teach a old dog new tricks if the dog is really very stupid"

I love it!!

[Orsino]

35. Let's say rather that her smarts, which were suited...

well enough to building a junta in Wasilla and Juneau, are simply inadequate for a quick cramming on national and international affairs before the election. Her role in the campaign is therefore limited to prize-stroker/spokesmodel/albatross.

She's not stupid, but she's perhaps incurably petty and vindictive, and has not been preparing for the role thrust upon her by McCain's desperation, even with the help of the corporate media.

[Kind of Blue]

41. yup-yup

[progressoid]

37. She in WAAAAY over her head.

This ain't Wasilla.

[ronnykmarshall]

43. It's a TRAP!

[milkyway]

45. Twenty years from now, Sarah Palin will be the hard-to-remember answer to a trivia question.