Prepare for the Palin Word Blizzard

–updated–

via Huffington Post

A former challenger
lays it out:

Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn a 60-second response to a query about her specific solutions to healthcare challenges into a folksy story about how she’s met people on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges. All without uttering a word about her public-policy solutions to healthcare challenges. In one debate, a moderator asked the candidates to name a bill the legislature had recently passed that we didn’t like. I named one. Democratic candidate Tony Knowles named one. But Sarah Palin instead used her allotted time to criticize the incumbent governor, Frank Murkowski. Asked to name a bill we did like, the same pattern emerged: Palin didn’t name a bill. And when she does answer the actual question asked, she has a canny ability to connect with the audience on a personal level….

We’ve talked about this for weeks around here. The political talking points
wrapped up in spin and jettisoned into the atmosphere in a blizzard of babble
that goes nowhere. Tina Fey didn’t take Sarah apart using many of her own words
for nothing.

Biden is the leading mind in Congress on foreign policy.

Sarah Palin is obviously a beautiful, charming and gifted politician, but she’s
not a leading thinker on anything, except maybe those conservative favorites
like abortion, religion and homosexuality.

It will be quite a debate. We’ll definitely need a drinking game.