Palin is "ATE UP" --or the restaurant terms "in the weeds"

We had this saying in the Army. Sometimes a guy would get so scared of screwing up that all they think about is not screwing up (and getting punished) that they don't focus on the task in front of them and continue to screw up. It is a nasty vicious circle. I saw it happen to people first hand and it is not pretty.

Waitstaff and people in the restaurant industry use the term "in the weeds" for just being overwhelmed with tables.

The way to remedy it is to give this simple basic tasks so they can't help but complete them and then you praise them. Eventually everyone gets out of it but it tough to watch, like this.

Palin appears to be "ate up"
The CBS interview was a disaster. As I posted on another thread Chuck Todd said that Republicans are telling him that the McCain campaign screwed up by not just letting her get out there-sell herself, sell Sarah Palin. Her impromptu taking questions on a sidewalk in NYC the other day could very well be a decision to just let her jump in the cold water and get wet.

I posted this twice before I turned on a repeat of AC360. They just finished a conversation about Palin. I turned it on just as Ed Rollins (Repub strategist) said "she has lost all her confidence" Begala agreed that candidate confidence is key and added a baseball analogy about throwing a pitcher right back out there after a bad start.

She's ATE UP. She has been hit so hard by feedback (from inside the campaign more than from outside) that she can't focus on just sticking to what got her where she is-which is basically using talk radio issues/language and riding that train like the rest of the Republicans do.

She is flat out ATE UP you can see it in her eyes.

sure she is as cocky as hell but its not backed up with anything.

they clearly overwhelmed her in the debate prep.

"cocky as hell but its not backed up with anything" sounds familiar--W, Duncan Hunter, Hannity, Sessions, etc.

some who are in the situation simply cannot admit it. Their egos refuse to believe that they come off as bad as they actually sound. And they often are surrounded by "yes" people. There just isn't any way to get to them and take them through the exercise.

the surprising thing is that while her government experience is limited, she has been elected to governor of Alaska... and I assume that she had to sit down with some TV interviewers and do some debates (I've seen video of both and she did OK in both of the videos I saw).

I think the problem is that they filled her head with talking points (you can see it that she simply MUST say "shore up the economy" and "it's all about jobs" even when the question has nothing to do with those answers). She is like Kelley Bundy getting ready for the trivia contest. Her head can only hold so many facts before it starts losing one for every new one.

I know I shouldn't. She's a horrible human being. But I guess that's the "liberal sympathy" in me.

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on a human level everyone is feeling sorry for her

I finally decided to de-lurk and start posting. I've been reading this board ever since the primaries.

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:bounce: :woohoo:

She is first and foremost a danger and if some feel that is dehumanizing then I can live with it. She has chosen her path and I think people like Palin misuse the sympathy they are given to advance their own interests at the cost and peril of others. Do I wish her physical suffering? No, but I do wish her public humiliation and professional downfall because as long as she is in the position she is in, she can do real and great harm. The liberal mindset is more towards compromise, so we discuss an issue and draw a line. The regressives amongst us cross that line, so we go back to discussing and compromising, draw another line and this one is crossed as well. At some point we must stop drawing lines. We must say to here and no further. Palin, and those like her, need to return to the rocks from under whence they came.

however, she took on a job that she knew she was unqualified for and the arrogance that she showed at the convention set her up for this. For the "good" of the country, she should have said, "no thanks, let someone do it who can do this job right" and step aside. Of course, this is republicans we are talking about...:eyes:

So awfully true. She was downright mean and nasty, even compared herself to a pit bull, and that was an insult to the breed. I was taught never to gloat even when someone contemptible falls, but how can one feel sorry for Palin when she charges rape victims for testing kits? How can one feel sorry for her reveling in killing wolves to increase prey population for the pleasure of hunters? How about no choice for abortion when you're raped or an incest victim? There's just too much horror associated with her. To me, this is not the time to get soft and give this woman a break because I feel very, very sorry for us if McPalin wins this election.

I know lots of jerks who are dumb as a box of rocks but confident as hell. Oblivious, yes, but supremely confident. She was stupid before she got negative feedback and lost her confidence and I'm quite sure she has maintained the same level of stupidity throughout her candidacy.

It began, it seems, as a polite alternative to "fucked up." The drill sergeants told us they used it because they weren't officially allowed to curse. Naturally, it soon devolved into "ate the fuck up," which I always found a hilarious circumlocution.

Palin is ate up, all right. She is eaten the fuck up with ate-upness.

You had guys who were just torn up and ate the F(#$ up! as you so accurately put it.

I mentioned this the other day, but my father is a minister, an attorney and the 1960 Champion of the Missouri State Forensic League debate competition. He said after watching her Couric interview "she freezes" meaning that it's not that she doesn't KNOW what she's talking about, but that if she gets flustered, her brain just locks up and she stops. We saw that several times last night.

Apparently it's not something that can be trained away.

(I was never in the military, but was in the Cadet Corps at Texas A&M)

That's EXACTLY how my husband and I have been referring to her lately. ATE UP. Yup, we're Army too, go figure. Just like right now the whole damned Army is Ate Up.

Go figure. The Republican Party has been in control for too long now.

a term still in use... but, I knew many a server who was out in the weeds. I had always thought it a double-entendre type reference because "weed" also is slang for marijuana.