Forgive me Jall, but he's beggin for it...
Scarecrow:
You can't show up on the national scene and not know the things she didn't know.
You mean like the defintion of "Bush Doctrine", or more specifically, being able to read the mind of the interviewer so that the definition she chose was the one he was using at that time, or the one he was going to switch to after she answered the question?
How about Joe Biden's not knowing that FDR didn't have TV?
Think that was important? I do.
It was painfully obvious that many important economic and public policy concepts were relatively new to her (by about 2 weeks). She couldn't name an important supreme court precedent other than Roe v Wade. She couldn't articulate the job of the vice-president.
The job of the Vice President is to wait for the President's last breath.
Most people don't like hearing that. It sounds so...mundane....and we can't have a mundane office to be filled, can we? But that's the reality none-the-less.
So EVERY candidate for the job invents some BS that makes the job sound more important and impressive than it really is.
When she spoke she sounded like a high schooler struggling to b.s. her way through an essay exam, just filling in the test booklet with any phrases that popped into her head. She would answer questions by throwing out any terms or phrases she thought were relevant--hoping the interviewer didn't say: "Governor, you're not making sense." And the so-called liberal media spared her that embarrassment.
The flaming left-wing anti-American pro-Messiah liberal media establishment spared her what?
Oh, they spared her the announcement that of the 14 ethics charges the Democrats have bogusly filed against her, not one single one was ruled valid. The mainstream media wasn't reporting that. No. The mainstream media dodged that by making sure a third rate comedian aired a lewd joke regarding Palin's fourteen year old daughter, so that all Palin related news in the following week would be about the joke of the comedian, and not the joke of the Democrats who've failed completely to stick their mud onto her.
Yep, Palin speechifying shurrrre needed polishing. Guess what? She's not a lawyer. Naming court cases isn't the most important thing in a candidate, in fact, it ranks right down there at the bottom of important things they need to know, along with pop quizzes of Republican candidates to name the most irrelevant international leaders and dog catchers the TV interviewers can did up, like they did with Bush in 2000.
The real question, the question that mattered, the question that she passed, was did Governor Palin have an ideological basis for her decision making that would make her a suitable replacement for McCain if McCain croaked.
The answer to that was "yes". She was anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-baby-murder, pro-freedom, pro-business, pro-growth, and pro-America, nonen of which the Democrat team could claim.
Just take a step back and try to objectively imagine her trying to debate economic or legal theory with Obama.
Yes, let's look at what The Messiah was saying in the campaign. "Can't continue the mistakes of the past", meaning he wanted to tax the piss out of anyone with money. Cutting taxes was the only spur to the economy that works, and the only way the economy was going to grow out of the recession. The Messiah's economic policies were straight failed Keynesian nonsense peppered with Marxist dog turds.
Palin was all for cutting taxes.
She'd have won that debate by any objective standard, since any objective standard would have to be weighed towards the side that promoted the methods that work, not the best teleprompter reader.
Imagine her trying to discuss military strategy or diplomacy with McCain or Biden.
You are aware that she was McCain's running mate, right?
And it would be funny as hell watching the Plagiarist discuss military strategy or diplomacy, or checkers or even which pickle will float to the top of the barrel first.
Oh, and gee....lookie there, you didn't mention Palin disucssing military theory or diplomacy with The Messiah? Naturally, apologizing isn't a good diplomatic tactic nor a sound military strategy, so The Messiah would lose.
She thought Africa was country -- not a continent.
The Messiah has yet to name the seven states only he knows about, and we're still wondering what prime vacation spots we've missed as a result.
