Is sarah Palin really this stupid?

TraneWreck said:
Certainly there are more important factors, but all things being equal, command of the language is usually a good indicator of intelligence.
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While this is certainly true in the general sense, in the sphere of politics, questioning someone's intelligence is (sadly) not a very persuasive argument.

Questioning the intelligence of a politician seems to entrench existing political opinion, whether for or against. (At any rate, that is my impression.)
 
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Weak Kitten said:
I don't know. I fear that she and the others in her party may not be as stupid as they appear. Sadly, if this is the case then I have to accept that they are amazingly selfish and evil.

The GOP seem to be determined to hurt the liberals no mater what the cost, even if it means the country itself is harmed. That just doesn't seem right. What happened to the GOP, how did they come to be like this?
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The GOP is determined to win elections, nothing more.
 
NoScotsman said:
While this is certainly true in the general sense, in the sphere of politics, questioning someone's intelligence is (sadly) not a very persuasive argument.

Questioning the intelligence of a politician seems to entrench existing political opinion, whether for or against. (At any rate, that is my impression.)
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Attacking the arguer isn't a logical tactic in or out of politics.

Sadly though, it is a persuasive argument if political ads on TV are any indicator.
 
Architect said:
I learnt my German in Switzerland. They point out that it's you guys who speak it funny......
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Whoa, whoa, whoa,... back up there.

I never said they speak funny. Just that they speak Austrian.

;)

(Truth be told, one of the few German[ic] accents/dialects/whatevers I truly cannot stand is the Austrian spoken in Vienna. Truly awful.)
 
TragicMonkey said:
And it's just that homey folksiness that indicates she is full of valuable proteins, fats, and essential nutrients desperately needed by sick chimpanzees. That glossy hair, that puffy face, those scaly elbows...they all bespeak of enormous potential in the rewarding field of being soup. Why, I bet she's got enough saturated fats and mineral elements in one buttock to nurse to health six juvenile chimpanzees, or three adults! As Xmas approaches, I hope everyone will open their hearts and skins and subcutaneous fats to the needs of ailing chimpanzees everywhere.
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Actually, it is my belief that if she is made into soup, it will be a soup du fecalle.
 
Why would "refudiate" have to be a dumb mistake, rather than a deliberate and meaningful fusion of two words such as "misunderestimated" and "confuzzle" have been accepted as?
 
Quite to the contrary, I'd say it takes some wit to make up words.

Anybody remember Norm Crosby? Really funny.
 
casebro said:
Quite to the contrary, I'd say it takes some wit to make up words.
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It does, but only if you know you're making up a new word.

Not if you think it's already in the dictionary.
 
TragicMonkey said:
And it's just that homey folksiness that indicates she is full of valuable proteins, fats, and essential nutrients desperately needed by sick chimpanzees. That glossy hair, that puffy face, those scaly elbows...they all bespeak of enormous potential in the rewarding field of being soup. Why, I bet she's got enough saturated fats and mineral elements in one buttock to nurse to health six juvenile chimpanzees, or three adults! As Xmas approaches, I hope everyone will open their hearts and skins and subcutaneous fats to the needs of ailing chimpanzees everywhere.
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Well, at the moment, I happen to need my buttocks. Perhaps I could just soak them in a bowl of hot water for a while and make a sort of tea?

I'll send you a jug when its finished.
 
TragicMonkey said:
And it's just that homey folksiness that indicates she is full of valuable proteins, fats, and essential nutrients desperately needed by sick chimpanzees. That glossy hair, that puffy face, those scaly elbows...they all bespeak of enormous potential in the rewarding field of being soup. Why, I bet she's got enough saturated fats and mineral elements in one buttock to nurse to health six juvenile chimpanzees, or three adults! As Xmas approaches, I hope everyone will open their hearts and skins and subcutaneous fats to the needs of ailing chimpanzees everywhere.
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Scaly elbows?

OMG - She's a Lizard! David Icke was right!

Run away! Run away!

:)
 
it's just the NWO playing with you americans, look at the facts, they put Reagan in and he was senile, then they put the evil daddy bush in who was more evil than we could have imagined, next up was stoner/womaniser/fraudster Bill Clinton, then the ape like baby bush who was just as evil as his daddy but more dangerous, apparently he doesn't like everyone laughing at his hillbilly sensibilities and finally we have Barry Soweto and non america black man who is so dull he makes Jimmy Carter seem interesting. Sarah Palin would make a fine president in the tradition of useless american presidents.
 
It's theatre, like the folksy Bush-ism's, these people can speak fine but their constituents like to imagine that their leaders are as stupid as them.
 
TragicMonkey said:
I can hardly be considered a particular fan of Sarah Palin (I am on record suggesting she be boiled down for soup stock and fed to sick chimpanzees) but I have to say "refudiate" is a pretty good word. A portmanteau of "refute" and "repudiate", it shall mean you simultaneously refute an argument while denouncing it. Like most would do when arguing against particularly reprehensible things, like racist theories, or suggestions that Sarah Palin wouldn't in fact be better if she were boiled down for soup stock and fed to sick chimpanzees.
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I think it's a pretty good word too. I'd be mighty impressed if she had intentionally come up with it.

However, I am very entertained by how every criticism that isn't absolutely rock solid and salient about Palin is attacked as 'petty' and 'degrading the discourse' or something. It is perfectly fine to laugh at stupid things people have said. Don't base your voting policy completely on it sure, but it's not like it should be ignored. That's why it's in the Social Issues section and not US Politics.
 
UGH. She's got a reality TV show coming up. "Sarah Palin's Alaska". Basically her and her family enjoying the outdoors. That sound you hear is someone scraping the bottom of the barrel.
 
Remember that Obama said he visited the "57 states" in the USA? Or that he met with a Marine "corpse man"? What an idiot! Oh wait -- not really; anybody who makes as many speeches and public appearances as Obama or Palin is bound to make such mistakes.

The real reason Obama is considered "brilliant" and Palin "stupid" is that Obama agrees with the sneering classes prejudices (left-liberal) and Palin does not. So when Palin is attacked as "stupid", people correctly summarize that the real attack is "her ideas piss off the left". And therefore it merely increases her popularity.

I'd be mighty impressed if she had intentionally come up with it.
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Somehow, I get the feeling that, if Obama had said the exactly the same thing, you would automatically assume it was intentional. While if it was Palin who mentioned "57 states", that would condemn her for all time as an idiot.

But objectively speaking, surely, if anything, collapsing two words into one (not deciding if to say "refute" or "repudiate" and saying a word in the middle) is by far less proof of "stupidity" than claiming there are 57 states, or calling someone a "corpse" man.
 
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