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Sarah Palin: The Velcro Dilemma
(Expansion of a brief earlier comment to another post.)
Re/that vexing question of the day: Why is Sarah Palin still so deliriously incoherent on almost any topic of national import, even after weeks of coaching?
It's not just what she doesn't know, it's what she does. Or believes, anyway.
She's a beauty pageant alum. She's all about presentational skills: It's not what you know (she believes), it's how you present yourself. Be confident. You're a winner! DON'T BLINK!
Hence the incessant lying--even back in Alaska, on Troopergate, pre-McCain: Look 'em in the eye and give 'em your best shot! Truthiness? Not really relevant. ('Til the audiotape shows up.)
And she's a dedicated, wholly credulous Christianist zealot. She "thinks" dinosaurs and people shared the Earth. That geology is a well-intentioned but Satan-friendly hoax. Etc. Boatloads of that stuff!
And that's about it.
So: It's not just that she knows almost nothing about any area of domestic or foreign policy, about any Supreme Court decision beyond Roe v. Wade. It's that what she's got in there already is absolutely without Velcro for any reality-based knowledge or judgment about anything.
Sarah Palin, the candidate with the Teflon mind.
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