re: #42 Sol Berdinowitz

They came to value ideological purity over any sort of intellectual skills, candidates like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and, Michelle Bachmann are living proof of that.

The Tea Party has taken the Litmus test of ideological purity and turned it into an acid bath

Yes, and Palin is the High Priestess of proud, resentful ignorance.

The thing that constantly floors me is that she’s so inarticulate that she has to fight her way out of her own sentences, so that in the end they’re nothing but a garbled mishmash of buzzwords, but her True Believers hear genius.

Maybe this is what “Speaking In Tongues” is all about.
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