The Mudflats

If you’re like me, you sat watching the state of the union, and couldn’t help but think of what that address might have been like if instead of Joe Biden sitting behind the president, it had been Sarah Palin back there. And you couldn’t help but smile a little when the President said “I do not quit.”

But Sarah Palin did manage to insinuate herself into the evening by wearing her brand new Fox News hat, talking with Sean Hannity and telling us what she thought of the President’s speech. And by “talking” I mean speaking a series of English words, one after the other, in no particular order.  She didn’t like the speech. That much I got. But why? Pull on your parka and behold the blizzard of words.

If there are any intellectual conservatives left, they have bags on their heads.

Hannity:  First of all, your initial reaction.

Palin:  Ohhh, I think there was a lot of lecturing going on tonight versus inspiring the American people and independent politicians who were sitting in the audience waiting to hear some acknowledgment that there has been a disconnect between the White House and people who are expecting more from our government – more in terms of empowerment of the people not relying on government to meet all of our challenges, but empowering our families, our small businesses to fix the problems that we’re facing today.

Hannity: What was your reaction to the tone, specifically, of the speech?

Palin: Well again, not as inspiring perhaps as we are used to President Obama coming across as. But I think that that’s an indication still of that disconnect between the people and the White House. He not understanding that no, we don’t want to just chill a li’l bit, and cool a little bit on his health care plan, we want the thing killed because it’s government takeover of about one sixth of our economy. We don’t want to see that go forward, so with an issue like that still with that disconnect, um I think that uh there was no way for him to come across as inspiring when he still is proposing those top-down big government solutions to the challenges that we’re facing when the people want empowerment for our businesses, our families.

Hannity: … is he out of touch in some way, with his policies?

Palin: Well, I believe so, and I think that a lot of the fact checkers tonight are going to be quite busy and as they run down the content of that speech they are going to, they’re going to call him on some of these claims he made tonight, for instance you bring up the lobbyist issue. Yeah, he’s got at least eleven high-powered lobbyists who are par of now his administration helping make some calls and yet he claimed that lobbyists essentially aren’t having a whole lot to do with policy. That’s not entirely true, so fact checkers are going to be pretty busy tonight and tomorrow I think we’re going to see a lot of the details come out.

[Hannity shows clip of Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing "Not true" when the President calls out the Supreme Court for its 5-4 activist ruling in Citizens United v. the FEC.]

Hannity: Did you see that, governor?

Palin: I did, and I tell you that this is why people are disenchanted and becoming more and more disengaged really from what their government is doing because when we see an issue like this, words spoken that may not be true, coming from our president, and embarrassing our supreme court and not respecting the separation of powers we have a problem, and that’s illustrated there by that justice mouthing those words “Not true.” Now one or the other is being disingenuous here – either our president and what he just claimed, or the supreme court justice and I think that this is going to be a huge take-away moment from this speech tonight.

Hannty: What did you think specifically when he brought up the issue of health care, governor? I’d love to get your take on that…

Palin: Ever since about August ore and more (*wink*) Americans have paid more attention to what is in this health care bill, and more and more Americans are becoming more concerned about what we see in there, so it hasn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy, with government takeover and mandation of health care, but Americans understanding what’s in there, not liking it and sending him that message via those three Republican sweeps in Virginia, in New Jersey, Scott Brown’s election too, the Tea Party movement, the town hall events – people sending that message to the president, namely health care being a focus on this. He not understanding that we don’t want to see government takeover of one sixth of our economy.

[snip]

Palin: Well….only about 10% of the speech being dedicated to the war on terror and where we are with national security issues is quite concerning, but yeah, Iran – that was a perfect place for him to start, to press that reset button, if you will, and say OK we are going to stand up for those who are cravin’ democracy and freedom, and we’re going to speak out – the United States of America is going to speak out in support of those who desire this freedom. Now, if he doesn’t fulfill this as he claimed tonight, then more and more people are going to say, “Look, Mr. President, we cannot trust you. You’ve already broken so many promises. Don’t go back on your word on this one.”

Welcome to “Mandation Nation.”

All I have to say is:    Ohhhhh…..well, finding it difficult in terms of understanding the meaning and disconnect, and feeling the craving to push that reset button, if you will.