axia777 said:
Cheeze_Pavilion said:
My guess is that Sarah Palin isn't dumb, she's just *gullible*. Her handlers probably told her to say that stuff about "I can see Russia--I'm a Foreign Policy Expert" and she didn't just say it: she actually started to *believe* it. Which is probably even more dangerous than someone who is dumb--anyone who gets her ear who she sees as having the same world-view as her can manipulate her into not only going along with whatever they say *coughBushCheneycough* but into actually believing it herself as if she thought of it herself and always believed it herself.
Her handlers called her a wack job, this is public knowledge.
Yeah, I'm guessing for stuff like this: she didn't come up with that Russia thing on her own. Her handlers probably told her to bring that up, and she wound up not only using it as a talking point, but actually wound up believing it. At that point, the handlers probably looked at the thin, permeable membrane separating what Sarah Palin believes to be true and what she wants to believe, and concluded: Wack Job
That's why she's so great at those rallies: she really does believe that Obama 'pals around' with terrorists. She believes in the 'facts' in all the negative campaigning more deeply than the targets of the negative campaigning are even supposed to.