Something Someone Else Said II

"The campaign is over." -Sarah Palin, when asked at the Republican Governors Association convention in Miami, Florida why she had waited until now to hold a formal press conference

Of course, why give the media and the American people a chance to get to know you and your policy positions better before an election? As we've seen, it's much easier to just hide from the microphones while you run solely on your folksy personality and partisan smears; next time I converse with someone who voices the opinion that this woman was qualified to run for federal office I'm either going to laugh my ass off or punch them in the face, but I fear that neither reaction will have the desired effect.

[Update: Sorry, but I just saw this from her interview with Wolf Blitzer and I had to post this quote as well:

Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.

This is the perfect example of a person who lacks intelligence and knowledge trying to hide that fact by speaking way too much; it's becoming kind of sad, really.]