Palin: yes, her ignorance matters

20 February 2011 |permalink | email article

Sarah Palin is losing altitude in national opinion polls among a number of putative candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

In a rare and unscripted appearance before New York’s largest business organization last week Palin was asked about that and others questions during more than an hour of discussion. “In a lot of those polls, yeah, I got my butt kicked.”

Far more relevant, I thought, was what she said about the escalating price of gas and groceries. “It’s no wonder Michele Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby – yeah, you better – because the price of milk is too high right now”

A cheap shot aimed at the First Lady, it once again exposes her remarkable ignorance and proclivity to shoot from the hip. What’s stunning is that as Alaska’s governor before resigning in mid-term she encouraged women to do the same thing.

Her proclamation, the liberal site Media Matters uncovered, showed Palin proclaiming October 2007 as: “Breastfeeding Awareness Month in Alaska.” Has the Tundra Queen already forgotten? 

Quotable

“Have you personally changed your views about segregation? – Bill Monroe, the much respected and longtime former moderator of “Meet the Press,” died last week. In 1976 he unsuccessfully asked Gov. George Wallace, running for president, four times for an answer. Wallace finally said that race relations were better in the South than in other parts of the country. Really?

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