I could hardly speak or move for a couple of days.

She reminds me of that.

I always had a difficult time understanding her, and never knew why (didn't know about her accident and coma because it happened many years before I met her). Sarah sounds just like her, only arrogant and bitter.

On an aside, Palin reminds me of those crass, tasteless juvenile days in middle school when we'd amuse ourselves by telling other kids to grab their tongues and say, "Your mother has an ugly purse." (Don't hate. I outgrew it). She'd probably sound just as articulate if she'd been talking while holding her tongue.

The drive home was kind of nice, until the embarrassing "flip your car three times and land in a ditch" thing...

standing on him? You should have told him to get off but nooooo. You thought it so cute you had him do it again.

You want to be a public figure? Well then you are going to have to deal with critics as well as supporters. Good rant, rudepundit.

OF COURSE it is! That's the definition of their world-view. That's what they do, or try to do, every day they're in power - anywhere, from Capitol Hill all the way down to Assistant Cowpie Inspector in the "Heart"land.

Well said!

I could not say it better

Really, motherfuckers? This was the speech that made you decide Palin was not going to be president one day? 'Cause, see, the rest of us knew she was a fraud and a puffed-up idiot, a wannabe player, and a power-mad gorgon from the start. We didn't need this babbling cartoon character, this monster with a gaping maw, gorging on fame and attention like a snake on a rat, to blither through one more parade of faux folksiness, like Hee-Haw was her Critique of Pure Reason.

the moment she strutted across stage at the RNC convention. That whole performance screamed "something is VERY OFF about this woman." Yukon Barbie and the Kartrashians... seems we'll never be rid of them!

I know several conservative women who voted for Obama because of Caribou Barbie, she was (is) just. that. bad.

I do remember a friend calling me as Half-Gov winked and snarked her way through her speech, and we both were venting, as in W(ho)TF does this woman think she is?!

I know of several more moderate conservatives who went from supporting McCain to voting for Obama because Palin literally scared the hell out of them. That woman is a freaking nutjob on a Gary Busey level.

I've followed a lot of politics and I have never ever seen anything like this Palin person -very off is a nice 'conservative' phrase. The icing on the cake was five years and four colleges for a degree.

...the University of Idaho, meaning SIX stints at those colleges to earn her degree.

From what we can see, she's been a quitter at everything.

Ah, good warfare-on-witches times...

could play her in "The Return of The Exorcist."
My wife said Palin was drunk.

... and I'm still laughing.

Seriously today's rant is out of this world magnificent

I almost needed a cigarette after that one. Hell, the whole piece!

This was a 'delish' rant

I'm still sorry McGramps did not let her speak after they lost

Pig in a python.....

"power-mad gorgon.." He does have way with words.

"We didn't need this babbling cartoon character, this monster with a gaping maw, gorging on fame and attention like a snake on a rat, to blither through one more parade of faux folksiness, like Hee-Haw was her Critique of Pure Reason." Perfect.

And, her teleprompter froze.. there is a Lord of Karma!

I am in awe of the writing.

very descriptive!

mixes pharmaceutical abuse with alcohol abuse and NEVER comes down to earth, ever.

She likes her little lala-world because she's the only one in it which, of course, means that in her world she IS #1.

"Stream of Unconsciousness," I like to call it.

Nicely done!

I'd love to be able to throw that back at wingnuts, the contrast between Obama without a teleprompter (one of their favorite talking points - talk about straining on a gnat while swallowing a camel) and Palin without a teleprompter.

At least that is how I heard it.

If I was a betting man, I'd put money on his performance being better than that.

Palin is an idiot. Obama is brilliant.

We have a winner!!!!!!!!!!!!

but it is pure Obama quality public speaking. It was at the Republican retreat early in his presidency. They invited him to their lunch for a question and answer period and he cleaned their clocks. Honestly, they looked like whiny idiots. It wasn't long after that they started claiming that he could say a word without a teleprompter - an exercise in lying through their teeth if there ever was one.

...but I couldn't remember the setting. Thanks for finding it.

...brilliant than I ever thought. For standing there that long fielding for the most part barbed, negative questions and pounding it right back at them was amazing.

I've seen Bill Clinton doing similar. As Obama once quipped, he's the "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" - I can't wait to see Obama do the same things after he's out of office. He may just wind up better than Clinton. Not a bad thing to have both of them on the campaign trail for our candidates.

In my youth, I think I ingested about every mind altering substance known to man.

I never, ever acted that crazy. She really is beyond crazy.

and Palin is what you get.

She knows her audience, and she knows how to part them from their money well enough.

No, she's not presidential material, but she is one of the best snake oil salespeople we have seen in years.
She mentions that she may run and you know that her coffers will fill up quickly.

Both her and Huckabubble know they aren't valid contenders, but prey on their fanbase to make big money.

She is a sly and cunning cretin who does know how to milk her audience. After all, the Republican base is made up of religious fanatics (anyone who believes in this religious superstitious rubbish is plainly off their rocker) and in the states with the worst educational standards or lack thereof, easily gulled into parting with their money. Sad but that's the price you pay for living in the "greatest country in the world".

Combine their existing idiocy with their unbudgable dogma and top it with their desire to believe in Palin.

And sly but stupid Sara can win them - and their dollars - every time.

But I wonder if she may have gone too far down the rabbit hole this time.

sycophants are depraved males who want to look up her skirt.

But you don't have to be that smart. You just have to be a couple ticks smarter than the sheeple you are trying to shear, and Sparklemoose's target audience is about as dumb as you can still get and be able to fog the mirror.

...to read. I don't think I can bear to listen.

I will hark back to another Joe Scarborough quote - "Oh, sweet Jesus."

not even entertaining, just like the Mean Girl everyone describes.

It was a true Mean Girl speech, my opinion.
Confession: I only watched 1/3 of it before I couldn't take it any more.

and this.....seriously, you have to see it to believe it

Sarah Palin is the prime example of the brain damage that results from free-basing conservative talking points 24/7.

needed to be said. I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." - Paraphrased from Blazing Saddles.

Gabby Johnson's reply to everything in the meeting.

How I love the intelligence and humor of Blazing Saddles, the very antithesis of Caribou Barbie.

Sarah Palin was born in North Idaho when the Bunker Hill lead/zinc/silver smelter was running full steam. Back then you could pick out the Kellogg and Wallace kids (Kellogg is where the smelter was; since it's the biggest town in Shoshone County it's where the shopping and doctors were) pretty easily because they didn't seem quite all there. Could Palin's condition be related to all the lead in the atmosphere when she was a baby?

I've never been to the "heartland" states, so I'm clueless.....but, that's some very interesting history.

and we thank you.

Me thinks Klondike Barbie is trying to drink Boehner under the table, and may be coming close.

By her ramblings, I beginning to think Palin drinks windex.

the lead-paint chips.

There's nothing else out there for her. Even Fux will stop issuing a paycheck in a while.

Sarah, the only good part of your presentation, hairdo and lipstick, are starting to fail.

She is f&cking nuts!

I can't wait to listen to the podcast.

the blizzard coverage

At least she remembered the topic at the end, even if she had no clue how to address it. Palin acts like a person who has zero ability to organize their thoughts, and has even less ability to recognize that failing. What's scary is she had a real shot at being vice president! Republicans will never live down this shame.

and that's saying something
DUzy

I remember reading at the time that she got good grades in school and that her meltdown was just due to stage fright. I don't know if that's true, but it seems plausible. Palin, on the other hand, knows that she could just read out a list of random words and her base would treat it like it was a cross between Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King (not that they're fans of the latter, I was just using him as an example of a great orator).

She was on the Amazing Race with her boyfriend, and she demonstrated at least above-average intelligence there.

The fact that Ms. Upton was scared witless one time demonstrates that she has a sense of shame. As opposed to Sarah, who is both dumb as a box of rocks AND totally shameless.

and teh stupid, IT BURNS

and that Sarah walked off that stage thinking, "Nailed it!"

What the hell is that bimbo talking about?

Thanks to meegbear for posting; and thanks also to The Rude Pundit.

...the president having eaten dog meat as a child. it took me a while to remember that.

remind her listeners to is the fact that during the time he ate dog, he was a child. He had no choice in the matter. She's stupid for using that line but it got a lot of feedback of chuckles. She's holding it together with her smart azzed jabs. Someone needs to slap that bitch into next week.

I never heard about that.

Thanks Rude.. that's the only time I can read what she babbled.. when I have someone like Rude to mock it at the same time. lol

thanks meeg

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Skagway (which stays quite warm year 'round), to Eagle River, which is colder. If they'd moved to Fairbanks, IIRC, that winter was tough, -40 to -50 for several weeks running...... This obviously arrested her development at that point in time... sigh............ LOL! I despise her, as do most voting Alaskans, she is a total joke up here. Great post, meegbear! It has a IhateSara GQ (giggle quotient) of 10+!

comes to mind. did she escape from her keepers or something?

..degree was in Journalism/Communications?

It's not going to happen overnight. Hell, it's already been 6+ years, but introducing her and holding her up as a conservative hero by Fox and the Republicans is a defining moment in the beginning of the end of this madness. It may take decades yet, but she was is so obviously such a monumental piece of shit that she's near single handedly turned the GOP and Fox News into an international joke that it's even beginning to slowly dawn on the uneducated rabble that they are being had.

Mix in some stupid ego blather repukian dogma and you get Sarah .

It's not the kind of thing I usually comment on, because we all age, right? But when she first hit the national stage there was so much comment on how sexy and stylish she was, even to the point of calling her a MILF. (ew)

But I looked at that face of hers and saw that it was hard. Sarah just had a very hard look. Sexy, definitely, for a certain type of sexy, and she was obviously accustomed to using that to get her way. So what's gonna be left when the looks go? Just the crazy.

PS: I do know some conservative men who looked her over and then just refused to vote for John McCain. McCain lost, thank the gods, but we sure had to witness a lot of media drooling before it was over.

a forum group (No longer running) at the Tampa Bay news site in Tampa, FL (TBO) at the time. One poster lives in Alaska. Well after hearing she had won, the only thing he posted on the thread he opened was a picture of Palin and a statement something like - check out our new governor and how excited he was about her winning the election.

THIS was how she won the election. Without her looks, down-home - I'm one of you impression and her witty, smart-azzed quotes.

Many of us could see right through her but some people couldn't care less because the Alaskans have/had a 'hotty' in the governors mansion. But for many people, qualifications and unity isn't as important.

Just normal for her. This is what this country has sunk to. From a Jefferson to Bush, Quayle, Trump and now this cretin. Welcome back to the middle ages folks.

Meth use in Alaska is really widespread and problematic.

If her word salad is due to pharms, given her celebrity status and recent degredation in looks I'd bet on a combo of benzo's, sleepers and diet drugs unavailable to the general public like dexedrine, modafinil etc.

That said, I'm higher than felix effing baumgartner right now on some freshly cured amnesia haze and half of my afternoon beer ration and I'm still more sober and level headed than this poor woman will ever be. She sounds more to me like someone entering the middle stages of early onset dementia than someone spaced out on dope, and the "word salad" of loosely associated but incoherent blurbs is often a of psychosis or some other disorganised mental state.

In any case, whatever the hell is going on with this woman it looks bad enough from here that I'm left to wonder if she'll crash and burn in public or whether they'll get some seroquel into her to calm her down first.

...hebephrenic schizophrenia comes to mind.

I bet she still got the most applause from that crown of morons. When your IQ is not much higher than the temperature outside, that kind of speech actually makes a lot of sense.

Glad to have you here.

So maybe the dunces believe their king dunce has fallen? Wow, are they enlightened or what? I hope they reconsider and actually run her in 2016.

Totally empty of cognizance

KO had it right when he would refer to her as that 'woman is an idiot'

No she didn't, she really is just that stupid.

If you want people to stop pointing out all the stupid shit you do, stop doing stupid shit in public.

but we only hear her part.