BY TAYLOR MARSH
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Think Progress has complied an interesting video illustrating what my husband actually noticed in the middle of the debate last night. Mark wondered if she was reading from a BlackBerry. Think Progess believes it’s notes.
If so, it comports to her past performances, where notes were very much part of her playbook.
Echoing Leman, Andrew Halcro, an outspoken critic of Palin who ran against her for governor as an independent in 2006, said Palin sometimes reveals her “thin skin.” At forums, Palin frequently stashed note cards behind her nameplate so that she could see them while seated at the candidates’ table. When Halcro criticized the use of notes, a Palin spokesperson told The Anchorage Daily News that if “[Halcro] thinks he’s always the smartest person in the room, maybe he should make that his campaign slogan.” At one event where the candidates were supposed to stand to address the audience, a miffed Palin demanded otherwise. “I heard her tell her staff, ‘You get back in there and you tell them that’s not going to work. I need to be seated. I will look like an idiot,’” Halcro told TNR. Moments like these, he said, showed Palin to be “snippy” and “insecure.” – The New Republic
Gosh darn it, golly gee willerkers, I’ll be damned, you gotta give to the little lady. She sure knows how to snow ‘em.
Take it away. It’s Friday. Open thread in honor of lunch bucket Joe, because blue collar Democrats don’t just drink six-packs. My husband prefers good Scotch.
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