It's literally an infinite digression - like two mirrors reflecting each other:

My values reflect...other values.

Common sense will tell you that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth.

I have new critique of Palin: It's all the fault of the Senate/electoral college setup. "Rural values" have become so enshrined for the purely technical reason that rural states are WAY over-represented in the Senate and the electoral college electors of the President.

Forget about the literal winks and nods and questions of character: Anyone espousing the virtues of firearms and slaying elk and riding recreational vehicles will get a big shout out from the 'heartland' 'values' voters.

I wonder if the next candidate for President from the Republican side will boast about his or her barely passing community college grades as to show they are as dumb as their base constituent, which some how means they are qualified for President as we are all told growing up "Anyone can be President (and it doesn't matter how hard you try or not)"

I'm glad she didn't go to some "elitist" school. The various colleges she hung out at from time to time obviously had awesome rigor and stiff standards. Right? Right? But it doesn't really make any difference or matter, does it? I mean Ann Coulter went to Cornell. Look how wonderful she turned out. But Bill Maher and Keith Olbermann went there, too. So, the quality of the college or university is evidently dependent, or more dependent, on the qualities of the students, and not necessarily the pedigrees of the faculties. PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T LET HER NEAR THE LAUNCH CODES. I'm counting on all of you. I really, really am. So are my children and grandchildren. Thanks.

For the sake of science,

I hope Sarah lives a long, full life.

But then, I hope science gets a chance to examine her brain, just like they did Einstein's.

I'm sure they'll find lots of wiring errors.

Lots and lots.

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Am I a spineless Ivy-Leaguer who doesn't share her values or is it that I just don't know what the f@ck she is trying to say?

Kaplan College, Wasilly AK

I have never heard anyone claim straight up that "I have common sense" like this as their primary qualification. It is a null set of rationalization - my thoughts make sense to me and people like me, and I have no other basis for my views, so they must be some indication of "common sense" on my part, and hence those that follow me like lemmings. I really wish Tom Paine would rise up and fire bomb her and Glenn Beck for trashing the term that made him rich.

"And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the the kind of spineless... a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fat resume that's based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles."

I defy any English major to correctly diagram that sentence.

Parsing Sarah Palin gives me a migraine.

My straight-A, over-achieving ten-year old granddaughter in Kansas is already talking about going to Harvard.

No kidding.

Even SHE knows what the Ivy League really means. It represents the absolute best in quality education.

Just the thought someone would mock the Ivy League makes any reasonably intelligent person shake their head. Palin can only be pandering to the worst elements in our culture, because to think an Ivy League education is some kind of hindrance to good governance, is simply delusional spin.

Katie's even talked about starting her own blog "I want to go to Harvard" in hopes it will help her open some of those doors when the time comes. And I intend to help her every way I can.

Once more, the Hard Right identifies itself as a culture of self-perpetuating ignorance, as THEIR cover-girl incites them to new lows.