Threw the words in a blender and poured them out.

I picked up a copy of Sarah Palin's "Word Salad Grammar Cookbook."

Then everything made sense.

And I enjoy diagramming sentences to illustrate grammatical errors or lack of clarity.

Just a hodgepodge of flight-of-ideas fragments.

There really is something terribly wrong with him. It's so depressing that millions of Americans think he is presidential material.

having overcome strong but ultimately insufficient competition from Sarah Palin.

That quote is 157 words at ten letters per word without any punctuation. Now admittedly the quote could have been transcribed with punctuation by marking off the obvious pauses and changes of subject with periods. But you are still left with a bunch of disconnected sentence fragments.

If you substitute commas for periods which is a better representation of the structure of the quote then you have a hero of a run on sentence.

Not to mention that a sentence by definition represents a single thought not 15 thought fragments that flip from one subject to another willy nilly. Also a well formed sentence usually contains only one verb not twenty.

The quote is a literal representation of ADD.

No wonder he reads a teleprompter like an ESL student He can't think coherantly so he can't read fluidly or fluently for that matter.

and I can't get past the second line. I thought Sarah Palin was bad.

How can anyone sit through an entire speech?

and I am rather fond of my remaining brain cells.

but here he is, managing to mangle the English language even more.

As for your challenge, no thanks! I want to retain what's left of my sanity

of these two. It's so hard to pick the Repug with the least psychopathology these days.

... then as the decades wore on, I realized that a lot of real sentences just didn't lend themselves to that discipline. This sentence (??) would have turned me off completely.

He's nuts.