Sarah Palin spent most of the week on a rehabilitation tour, trying to remake her airhead image into Someone Serious while blathering about those clothes, Joe the freakin’ plumber, she still wants to talk about Ayers, she’ll rush through any door, etc.
The interview that should have gotten the most attention, the substantive one, got the least: her Q and A with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. It proved again she’s not ready for national office. This excrutiating excerpt reads like satire but is from the transcript. You’ll see I snipped some of her warm-up ramblings, but masochists can check the full transcript for what I snipped.
BLITZER: Right now a big issue, should the U.S. government, the federal government bail out the Detroit — the big three automakers?
PALIN: Oh, that is the discussion of the day. And there is going to come a point here where absolutely the federal government must play an appropriate role [snip] decisions being made.
But we also have to start shifting some debate [snip] bailing out everybody who is going to soon line up, Wolf, for more taxpayer assistance.
And I’m talking about personal responsibility too in terms of homeowners [snip] .
And we’ve got to start living those lessons that we try to teach our children [snip] .
BLITZER: So, sorry, I’m still waiting for the answer, should the government bail out the big three automakers?
PALIN: Well, that — it’s in debate right now and I’m listening closely to the debate and there is a lot of information that even you and I certainly aren’t privy to, to understand all of the ramifications if federal government were going to step in and bail out.
But we do know that the auto industry is that important that certainly it needs to be considered. But, you know, I’m not going to ignore the debate again that I think needs to lead to the personal responsibility, the management decisions that have been made in some of these companies and corporations that have also led us to where we are.
BLITZER: So I hear you saying you need more information right now.
PALIN: Yes, I do. Yes.
Oy. Even her peers gave her a cold shoulder; she was not elected to any leadership position by the Republican Governors Association. Is it possible she does not know what the rest of us do?
And — at long last — that’s the thinking behind Ed Stein’s Thursday cartoon in the Rocky Mountain News.
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Cartoon —–> hahahahahahaha!
Being still pretty much a newbie to cruising about The Internets; I’m gobsmacked on a daily basis at the ranting and raving that is expended in defending and validating Ms Palin. How? Why? What the *? Please God, the group is miniscule and their efforts futile? Please.
Palin is like a gnat that just won’t go away.
virgomonkey’s last blog post..Just in: I am a ’shallow libby? that can’t be trusted
sage – Her supporters are certainly vocal, but I’ve noticed those who “defend” her only do so by attacking the other side or whoever expresses the negative opinion — or both. It’s intellectual dishonesty.
If you haven’t read Frank Rich’s column from yesterday, you might enjoy it. He’s so good at polite scorn and this is one of his best in a long time, imo.
virgomonkey
You must know a friend of mine who compared her to a zit that keeps flaring up!
Gosh help us. Thank goodness Mayor Begich won the Alaska senatorial seat so we don’t have to go though the convicTED Stevens/Possible Palin drama on that front!
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Amen, Muse. I just know in my gut that every time she looked into the mirror she saw a senator. Now, who knows?