(the more i see of her, the more afraid i become)
Sarah Palin gave the keynote speech at the Tea Party convention yesterday. She blasted President Obama, said the word "Reagan" several hundred times, and rallied her fans with confusing run-on sentences and catchy little bumper-sticker sayings like this "How's that hope-y change-y thing workin' out for ya?"
She enumerated some admirable goals without offering any workable solutions, urged a smaller government but a bigger military, and pined for the good ol' days of waterboarding.
Then she took pre-planned questions from the audience.
With pre-planned answers written on her palm.
I kid you not.
This is just sad.
Her supporters don't care. That's even sadder. (From one message board: "I'll take inarticulate but honest over smooth-talking liar any day.")
So, if she bugs me so much, why do I keep talking about her? Why give her even more publicity? Because like her or not, she isn't going away. We all need to understand exactly what could happen if the tea party movement grows stronger.
Imagine that legendary 3 a.m. phone call - with no crib notes written on her hand.
In fact, this morning on Fox News, Chris Wallace asked if she might run in 2012.
Her response: "I think that it would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our country."
Scary.
Sad.
Absurd, indeed.
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