Are we sick of the masters of the nonanswers yet? Have we had enough of this kind of politician?
“She’s a master, not of facts, figures or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the nonanswer, the glittering generality,” Andrew Halcro, a Republican who ran as an independent, wrote recently. “Against such charms there is little Biden, or anyone, can do.”
She’s also a snotty bitch who apparently never grew out of that high school nonsense that it’s cool to make fun of the smart kids for being, you know, smart. Mostly, it’s the only defense she has. She can’t out debate them, so her only option is to put them down. That is not the kind of person we need in any leadership role.
For all her homespun charm, she could flay her opponents like freshly caught salmon, as she did in one debate when the moderator asked the combatants what job they might offer their rivals if they became governor.
Halcro, she said, “would make the most awesome statistician the state could ever look for,” a jab at the numbers he so often threw at her.
As the debate audience giggled at the putdown, Palin then turned on Knowles, a one-time deli owner, saying, “Do they need a chef down in Juneau? I know Mr. Knowles is really good at that.”
Larry Persily, the former Anchorage Daily News opinion page editor who asked the question, said, “People talked a lot more about that the next day than, say, the nuances of early childhood education.”
Ohmigod that’s sooooo funny! He’s know a lot of facts about a lot of stuff! What a DORK!
Let’s NOT be talking about her childish putdowns tomorrow, folks. Let’s be looking at how well she understands and answers the questions, and how to-the-point her answers are. We can’t really be so stupid to fall for it, can we?
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