Do Somethin’ Crazy – Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Just when you thought she couldn’t get any more crazy, Sarah Palin has one of the all-time craziest things I’ve ever seen. Seriously, reading the transcript (clearly written by her with no editing – thus, lots of words in ALLCAPS and far more exclamations and awkward or baffling phrases than you normally find in the prepared copy for a speech) communicates some of the crazy, but you have to actually WATCH it to really grasp it. There were the random bird noises in the background. The uber-intense, almost maniacal grin she held through the whole thing. The fast pace. It’s like if you took one of her meandering, pointless, absurd answers to a Katie Couric question, sped it up to double speed, sprinkled in some sports metaphors, and then delivered it like you were on meth.
And none of that even gets into the insanity of using a speech about how you aren’t a quitter to be the means by which you quit.
I’m beginning to wonder if something is seriously cracking up there. I’m having a hard time judging whether I think her nuttiness is more compelling an argument for such self-immolation than the alternate hypothesis that there’s some major scandal she’s running from. For virtually any other person in a similar position, I’d assume it’s the latter. For her…who knows?