I was just accidentally exposed to Sarah Palin’s Q&A session after her speech at the Tea Party Convention. Lin was in the process of finding something else to watch as quickly as her could, but then, just as he flipped the channel, they asked:
(paraphrased slightly)
We’ve heard about the Obama Plan. What is the Sarah Palin Plan?
I insisted he switch back, because I really wanted to hear Sarah Palin explaining her plan for America.
This will be paraphrased until I get a transcript, but her response was almost as brief. I was expecting a five paragraph explanatory essay, and I got a paragraph.
Free market principles that reward hard work … rah rah rah sis boom bah!
[lengthy cheering]
On national security, we must do whatever it takes to win. We win! They lose! Ronald Reagan … rah rah rah sis boom bah!
[lengthy cheering]
And then they asked the next question.
Seriously. No plan, except free market principles are awesome, and we have to do whatever we must do to win, no matter what, ’cause that’s what Ronald Reagan said during the Cold War. It couldn’t have taken more than five minutes for her to state it, and some of that time was length cheering from the audience.
I’d rant, but I don’t want to harsh the smooth mellow mood I am enjoying at the moment, and I’d suppose I will have to read the entire transcript of her speech and Q&A. I don’t want to, but I feel compelled. At the least, it will be entertaining.
I’m reminded of an old Gilligan’s Island episode, during which the titular character dreams himself the dictator of a banana republic. During a speech to the masses from the balcony of his presidential palace, he promises the people “This, that, and the other thing …” to the sounds of wild applause.
Oh, I had totally forgotten that episode, but you are right, it was just like that. I just started reading the transcript for her speech, and so far, it’s 90% fluff and the other 10% is just dumb.