I had pretty much forgotten about Sarah Palin, or started to ignore the news items about her, and I had assumed that maybe she was holed up learning about policy or facts. But then Slate runs an article trying to analyze how she might come up with some of the wacky stuff she says. I read a quote like the one below, and it’s hard to see the issue as one of policy differences:
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. … So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here.”
I’m sorry, but regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, that makes no sense. Take Newt Gingrich: he is deeply conservative and I deeply disagree with him, but that guy could talk for a week straight and he would never say anything as idiotic as the Palin quote above. I want to be generous and assume that Palin isn’t stupid; that she just uses folksy idioms and is slightly misinformed. But I read what she says, I hear about the “refudiates” and that generosity is hard to find. Can someone help me solve this conundrum?
Thoughtbasket 
Sarah Palin got her bachelor’s degree from the University of Idaho in communications, with an emphasis in journalism. I guess speaking and writing clearly weren’t part of the curriculum.
Perhaps Sister Sarah and GWB attended the same language “finishing” school. Most disturbing about Palin is her apparent lack of intellectual curiosity – did she read or think at all in the years between graduation and being foisted on the American public? “…holed up learning about policy or facts” — bwa hah