If you can watch this short clip without cringing in vicarious shame for a flailing fellow human being—even if she is a crooked, divisive cow—you’re made of sterner stuff than I am

Wow. I’d never have figured I was made of sterner stuff than you, Betty!

I was getting a distinct Liberace vibe there, for some reason.

I, for one, welcome the rule of our Humiliatingly Sub-Normal Tea Party Wingnut Masters.

I am genuinely sick and tired of, you know, actually having to understand how shit works and stuff.

It’s a lot easier just to accept that life is, like, better…and I have tons more Freedom.

I feel sorry for her losing her way in the opening statement.

Yeah, I often forget who I am and what I’ve done at critical moments, even when what I intended to say was “My name is Strange and I have many cats, as you can see.”

I think she’s a horrible, horrible person, and I hope she loses by Saddam Hussein show election-style margins. But damned if I didn’t feel genuine human pity for her as she stared down at her clenched paws and tried desperately to dislodge the simpleton wingnut word salad stuck in her craw.

I’ve always dreaded public speaking myself—maybe that’s it. I’d rather be the corpse than delivery the eulogy.

Cringeworthy.  Let me help, “We have cut all essential services to the bone, closed clinics, schools and libraries, taken food from hungry children, and ensured that the police are kept busy with Constitution-violating duties, we have set AZ back 200 years!  yay, vote for us.” heh.

Fuck her.  She wants to be governor without putting in the hard work necessary to learn to run for the job in a non-half-assed fashion.

Thanks, bjkeefe. Fixt!

MOG, as Wonkette noted, she must’ve deported all her Mexican speech writers. Perhaps you should apply!

She’s a Real American! She doesn’t need that fancy socialistic-y-ish speechifying! Take that, morans!

What I want to know is, why don’t the Democrats have any women who are open unabashed Feministy(tm)* girl types like Jan Brewer and Sharron Angle? [/traister&holmes;]

*Bears the same relationship to ‘feminist’ that ‘lemony’ bears to ‘lemon’.

Should have written her notes on her hand, youbetcha!

Feel sorry for the c-word?  I wish I could watch the pathological liar burst into flames.

But she is from one of those really stupid states.  Like Alabama, or one of the Carolinas.  I know, I lived there.  They deserve what they get.

In other news, Rumpies…

Zandar - Bwahahaha! Yes, yessss. Waste your money my pretties! (And what is it with dentists anyway?)

The comment was interesting too:

The essay I have been dying to see from you ... is about what the Tea Party owes to the PUMAs. They are obviously motivated by different issues* but I am struck by how their tactics ... look and sound and feel similar. I seem to be the only one around me who sees it...

Hello? Over here!!

*They might, rabbit, they might.

Damn you, Zandar—I found that at Freedom’s Lighthouse and thought I had a scoop.

Well spotted!

I felt sorry for her for the opening statement—I’ve been in that position a few times, especially during job interviews—the brain goes empty, and you just can’t get the wheels turning again for a few seconds. Not that she shouldn’t have had a prepared statement ready, ‘cause that’s the way the pros do things, but I understood how she might have some difficulty there.

On the other hand, the post-debate “Nyah nyah, I won’t answer any questions, everyone go to hell” performance is pretty damned inexcusable. If I were a reporter in AZ, I’d be pulling out my every last piece of dirt on her to see if I could get something to stick before the election.

I come from Colorado.  Part of the reason I live in Boston is that I knew way too many women like her - stone-hearted evil-Dianne-Ladd wannabes. (Why aren’t there more saintly-Dianne-Ladd wannabes?)  When I see someone like that falter I can only wish for more of the same - and I relish like Hannibal Lector does fava beans.

When she says “I have…” looks at her lap, and then says “done…” does it look to anyone else like she mouthing the word “shit” as she’s looking down?  If so, I have been there. I mean, not as an elected official having an oh shit moment on tv, but like, in general.  But walking out over the “beheadings” question is just weak. Bold assertions require evidence. She might just want to admit she had a couple glasses of wine and thought an episode of “Criminal Minds” was real.  Or that’s she’s full of it…or—

Maybe walking away was the right thing.  Sheesh.

She makes Sarah Palin sound like Porky Pig’s nephew?

Said it before, and I’ll say it again.  Jan Brewer—Leni Riefenstahl.  Separated at birth?