Sarah Palin Baffles Reporters By Rehashing Stump Speech At RGA Conference

Sarah Palin said today that she doesn't want to comment on the strategy behind the McCain/Palin campaign now that it's over, which is too bad, because that's basically the only thing (besides her aspirations for 2012, and snow machines) that anyone wants to talk to her about. BUT! That doesn't mean she's ready to give up on the stock stump speech she gave over and over again on the trail, though, apparently to the utter bafflement of reporters who are, by now, really bored to tears with the travails of Tito The Builder.

Jonathan Capehart told MSNBC's David Shuster, "I watched her entire speech, and I had to remind myself that the election was a week ago, and this was not a McCain/Palin rally." Is that crazy white-haired lady who thought Obama was "an Arab" a Republican Governor? Probably! "Everything you heard at a McCain/Palin rally since she was selected as the Vice Presidential nominee since September, and even down to the same rhetoric was in that speech," said Capehart.

Jonathan Martin added that Palin's speech was "perplexing" and "jarring," which are the two nicest things ever said about a Palin speech. He added that he wasn't "sure if she wanted to, you know, re-litigate the past campaign or look forward and diagnose where the party should go from here. And it was sort of a little bit of both, but also neither."

Capehart added, "She needs to stop." And, according to David Shuster, 52% of people polled agree that it's time for Sarah Palin to go home. By contrast, 45% say they can't get enough of her. Funny how those numbers seem to correspond with another large accounting of the American electorate that was recently taken!

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Comments

[Gigums]

Palin is a freak.

Should be in a circus, oops sorry the media is the modern day circus.

[marm]

it would have been worth millions to have been a mind-reader at the Governors' conference.

[JessWonderin]

The "speech" suffered from poor delivery of a re-hash of the 'stump speech' that was BADLY re-written . . . if she decides to continue in politics, I advise getting a GREAT speech writer and AVOID any contact with any intelligent media . . . or better yet, go back to the PTA and raise your kids into something productive . . we have enough single parent drop outs struggling with low paying labor exploiting jobs . . . .

[gentlernation]

She also needs a new hairdresser, her roots are starting to show!!

[SteveDenver]

Well, all the gays are busy. That's why she looks like a refugee from Steel Magnolias, and it's not funny.

[NewDem08]

But THAT was funny. Steel Magnolias, indeed :o)

[Demi-Crat]

as is her totally out dated hair style

[TrishyTrue]

I know she cannot grow a brain, but could she get rid of the 80's Bed Hair?

[koyaanisqatsi57]

In her pictures, she's taken on the appearance of a mannequin. It's kind of frightening, a bit like "Chucky" or "Bride Of Chucky", but w/o the charm. Fortunately, her 15 minutes are about up. It's been fun, a good laugh every time she tries to answer a question. Stand-up comedy?

[Oldekirk]

How any sane Americans could ever have elected Palin as their Governor is beyond me:
unless all morons with an IQ of 65 or less are shipped to Alaska from the lower 48.
What newspapers do you read ? What is a newspaper ?
Have you ever visited another country ? Give me time, I just got my passport yesterday.
I do know however that South Africa is the southern part of the country of Africa.
I learned that in school for the retarded.
I do have a lot of experience with foreign nations, when I step out of my house I can see Russia..

[joycehelene]

What a nit wit she is, she has nothing to say and does a lot of talking saying a bunch of nothing,l, wink, wink. The campaign is over and she needs to home to Alaska and stay there for at least ten years, perhaps then she will have something important to say, but I doubt it.

[mahdeealoo]

She has NOTHING to say because her head is EMPTY. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Hello?!

[sus2222]

I wonder what A REAL REPUBLICAN like Ike Eisenhower would say about Palin ( if he were alive) ???
Probably that she is dangerously UNDERPOWERED mentally and educationally.
( no real smarts beyond self-serving activities).

Let the Repubs embrace Sarah all they want, It WILL RUIN THE REAL REPUBLICAN BASE and probably separate the uptight religious righties from the REAL LEADERS.

[Rj5000]

Her speech has a garage sale quality to it.

[mrpurrfect]

Everyone keeps saying that this woman needs to go home and study and learn the issues, I don't guess they get it. She gets by on her looks and backstabbing, those are the little tricks she has used all her life.

She is not about to go home and study. She can just say she did. And complain about being treated unfairly. I just want to know when any other VP candidate was found to have broken ethic laws and abused their power and it was sort of a side story.

Yes she says the first report cleared her and her personal personnel board cleared her, but if she keeps running for anything someone is out there digging for dirt and I will be you it brings this idiot down in the end. She made no attempt to hide her harassment of her ex brother in law, her big defense on each subject seems to be I am less crooked than the guy before me and beside I did not do it.

If this had happened to any other candidate they would have been off the ticket. And now that she is giving interviews everyone seems to have forgotten.

If we ever get decent journalism and she sits down for tough interviews I want someone to ask her why she broke the law and how she got away with it. Miss Ethics is what she bills herself as, never mind the facts.

[TrishyTrue]

She surely does. Tina Fey had it right in the skit with "Bush" and "McCain" where she lists Palin
s attributes, the final one being 'and just a little bit of HIgh School Bitchy' Its all High School bitchy and you know what? It works for some. It actually paid off.

Whilst she insults the intelligence of those of us with some, never underestimate the crass stupidity of the masses.

[JustJoan]

OMG, I hope she never stops..it is so much fun to watch her out there representin' the GOP. I love, love it. If anyone asks you what you think of her, your answer should always be, 'She is the one that should lead the Republican Party and we need to hear more from her.' She is a gift for the Democrats, so just say 'Thank You'.

[NF110408]

Oh yes--keep her out there and in the "Right-wing kook's faces". Everytime I think of her I can't stop laughing.

[helenwheels]

Bible Spice looks so much like Peggy Hill I crack up every time I see her pic.

[peggyleg]

Go on, say that....I woud love, love, love that!!!!

The real fact is that the libs are intimidated by Sarah Palin, always have been, always will be...

[boogiepop]

The Democratic Party WON this election partly because of Sarah Palin and you think we're intimidated by her?????? What planet are you living on?

[isthatso]

Intimidated by Palin...you have got to be joking! I wish someone could just explain to me what any person with a brain sees in Palin? She can give a great speech, one that is written for her but to answer questions, simple ones she is a failure. She needs to go back to Alaska and do some serious learning and have a speech coach to help her with sentence structure. Her motto should be read baby read!

[nippertyler]

No one is intimidated by Sarah Palin we just know that the dumbing down of America in the last eight years had opened the door to someone like her to reach high places on her looks and no real intellect what so ever, and you're proof the proof that some people have bought her act hook, line and sinker.

[Oldekirk]

I love ti hear her talk too, she is so utterly stupid and the democrats should thank her and her party for being nominated for vice; that put the icing on the cake and Obama was sure to win.

[Doogiesmom]

Hey, just Joan. I think I know you. In fact, I think we might have the same mother.

[Trolmaster]

If the Republicans wish to see themselves voted out of existence, then please keep this stupid woman in the spotlight.

The Republican party has such obvious problems and most of them are too stupid to even know it.

[iChoose]

Is the the Palin teenager still getting married? Now the election is over, is it really necessary to force teenagers into a marriage?

[TurnToTheLeft]

FREE Levi Johnston!

[TrishyTrue]

Is Bristol still pregnant? I bet Levi Johnston was absolutely gleeful when the Republicans lost the election.

[NewDem08]

The last I read, the wedding was supposedly scheduled for next summer. (After all, Sarah believes that marriage is a sacred institution......between two unwilling teenagers.)