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She was preaching to the choir. But the choir is not national in scope. Regional.

You know, this is not my first rodeo (as they say in Texas) and I've seen a lot of politicians come and go through my life, but Sarah Palin just makes me nauseous. I just don't get how anyone can take her seriously. Of course, W. is just as inane, but there was some family legitimacy there. (Ok, ES, you can go off on that one for a while - and you'll be right.)

But Sarah Palin? I really can't imagine, and I've tried, any politician more inane and with less experience, and with less ability to communicate like a semi-intelligent human being. It's like they went to some junior high school student council and took the person who lost the election for president.

The longer she stays on the scene, the worse my digestion gets. Can't even the conservative movement do better than this? What would William F. Buckley be saying now were he still alive? Both conservatism and liberalism used to have intellectual cores. No more on the right.

Heaven help us all. Thank God for Obama.

What do you expect when an undeserving giant asshole gets up to speak? Saxby, as stupid as he is as a Senator, knows Palin is big and Huckabee is small. Pssst, hey Huck....here's a little tip...if you ever need a blood transfusion to save your egotistical little life, you'll have been luck calling Max Cleland, than that giant asshole, Saxby Chambliss. Next year when you write book number 43, remember to give ole Saxby a little lashing for forgetting your name after you helped the sorry scum-sucker.

It seems that Mr. Huckabee's moment has passed.

But who knows? There was a time -- long before this November -- when it seemed like John McCain's moment had passed, and it hadn't.

But Sarah Palin sure is scary to me. And not at all because of her politics. She is scary in a way that, say, Mary Matalin (just to pick an example) is not.

Stubborn...and there is an anti-intellectuallism mood here...well, at least that is what the Republican populace is buying into. They don't want a William F. Buckley. They want a Sarah Palin. Too me, she is the equivalent of the "well respected" small town business man/woman. Some people really buy into that...even if it is not true, they want to believe it is. They want to be led by someone they think is like them.

The problem with someone like Palin is that we are never going to know their inner thoughts. She, like George W. Bush, are not the type of people that will express themselves in ways that will allow us to see behind the public personna. This is more true of some public political figures than others.

To me, Palin and Bush, are like powerpoint presentations...you get some flash, some key points, but not enough substance to really be informed.

William F. Buckley was a book. Barack Obama may become a great book. I like books. They have substance that lasts long after I have forgotten the flashy powerpoint presentation.

Al Franken now ahead 22 votes. Clicky

So far, Sarah Palin has provided the country with an interesting cancelling out process. She has canceled out the Republican Party on the national scene, and in the aftermath, seems to be cancelling out Huck.

If the two of them should team up in the future (shudder), I wonder what and who would cancel out what or who.

Any idea as to how that might work or not work, depending on your syntax and POV?

Silverbells:
I not really sure about all that either, but I feel certain Huck would have to be on top!