Sarah Palin ready to be (Vice) President on Day 1? Say it ain't so, Joe

All Style, No Substance
Sarah Palin pandering to Jewish voters while simultaneously being hyperbolic about the threat that Iran poses to Israel: We can't allow "a second Holocaust" against "this peace-seeking nation" where we'd one day like to place our "embassy in Jerusalem."

Sarah Palin trying to compensate for being less than worldly, unknowledgeable about foreign and domestic policy issues, and inarticulate during one-on-one interviews: "It's so obvious I'm not a Washington insider." "I may not answer the questions the way you want me to."

Sarah Palin being annoyingly and disingenuously "folksy" and "real" while trying to take the focus off McCain's record in Congress: "Now Joe there ya go again looking at the past, now. Doggone it, let's look ahead." "Can wait to get there and get with ya." "I want to send a shout out to all those third-graders at Glady's Elementary School."

Sarah Palin being geographically challenged: Referring to Alaska to describe her "connection to the heartland of America." (Since when did Alaska become the heartland of the United States?)

Sarah Palin communicating in a language other than English: "We have got not to allow ..."

I don't believe she is purposely displaying a streak of anti-intellectualism to appeal to the Republican base, as some have suggested, I think she just is really not that smart or quick on her feet. When she couldn't answer a question, she went back to her talking points and repeated the same lines over and over like a malfunctioning robot. Her small town girl witticisms aside, I heard nothing from her to reassure me that she has one iota of the emotional intelligence needed to be vice president (and possibly president) or the necessary intellectual heft.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/03/all-style-no-sub...
I wonder what Sarah Palin would be like as a Chief Exec. ... maybe something like this?

Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is in the hands of a rogue, fundamentalist government with Osama bin Laden as an advisor, McCain is unconcious, the Paki's are threatenng to nuke Kabul if we don't release detainees at Gitmo! Madame Vice President, YOU Are Acting President! What should we do? "You know, :::wink::: I'm not going to answer questions they way you strategic nuclear war advisors or tactical game theorists might like me to. :::Cutsy come hither grin::: Say it ain't so Joe! But I don't answer to you, I answer to the American people, and are they smart enough to get through this? Yu betchyatheyare!"
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/4/11202/1652/240/619107
I have been racking my brain to figure out who Sarah Palin reminds me of ever since she came on the scene with her bright smile, her folksy-corporate style, and her Silly Puttied authenticity, which mirrors back at the viewer whatever talking point she's just absorbed. From the start, I've found her stylistically arresting, for reasons that have to do with her energy and her youth...and I don't make the comparison merely to caricature her but to capture what I think is crucial about her. She buys into a whole vocabulary of signifiers that often don't signify very much, and she scaffolds that lexicon with winks, smiles, and carefully mimed gestural reinforcement. All politicians employ empty rhetoric, of course. But I don't know that I've ever seen one employ superficial language with such a sense of palpable enjoyment at her (or his, of course) mastery. And just like Saunders' characters, she refuses to show vulnerability or hesitation, deploying rapid-fire prepackaged phrases like a missile shield, as if the silence that comes with groping for ideas were deadly. (Just listen to her answer about her "Achilles' heel" in the V.P. debate, and compare it with dialogue in a Saunders story.) She loves to say "maverick" and "zero-base" and to recount how she once "quasi-caved" on an issue but didn't "compromise." (Huh?)

A lot of the original media coverage of Palin was confused by things about her that derive, it seems to me, from the fact that she's a woman in the West (which Camille Paglia wrote astutely about a few weeks ago). But what's *not* Western about Palin is how avidly she's borrowed and inhabited the language of cute-can-do-ism that's exploited by companies to lull workers into taking pleasure in how much of their time is given over to "breakout sessions" and the business of being an employee. Throughout the debate, she talked like the executive she's so proud to be rather than the governor she ought to be.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/03/d-oh-that-s-who-...

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[Boobalopbop]

Great call Chris Matthews about Dana Perino. I think Palin would make a good press secretary. She remembers talking points and just says what she wants to say... Like Dana Perino. But at least Perino, has a pleasant speaking voice and IS gorgeous, so she puts a pretty face on whatever bullshit lie, shes spouting, making it easier to digest.

Palin is not as beautiful as people are pretending she is. She's cute, in a dorky sexy librarian way.

[baddmanaz]

if those so-called mavericks (clowns more like it) get elected, this will go down in history as the biggest us con job.

[loonmaniac]

So fucking what? She'll just quit halfway through.

[keyboardplaya]

I think it's a bit of both. Maybe she's less educated than most politicians, and maybe she's also just trying to rile up the base, because she hates liberalism.

For example, maybe she doesn't know squat about economics or foreign policy, but I'm pretty sure she knows the whole "death panel" rumor is bullshit.

I mean, it came out of HER ass.

[Anothercoilgun]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT itreeye.

[eatALOTsleepALOT]

SCARY WOMAN

[itreeye]

Palin clocked Biden in their debate. I felt almost embarrassed for him. I wonder why people who try to stress that she is stupid ignore this event?

[JDnx]

God she's an idiot. So glad I voted for Obama

[ChurchillTea]

she knows what the President knows

[Yankeesx06]

haha ....  funny . Keep dreaming !

[Yankeesx06]

G.O.P= Greedy Obsessive Pigs !

[ptp44444]

Sarah Palin is the best viable choice for President in 2012. At least with Gov. Palin, the U.S. would be getting a true Conservative with an excellent track record of accomplishment as a Governor.