Palinism 101

摘要

As far as I can tell,Sarah Palin has four core beliefs:1. Things go better with God.2. Yay, Alaska!3. Let's drill that sucker.4. Curse you, political establishment.Palinisms occur when Palin expresses one of these views in her idiosyncrati-cally involuted syntax ("It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia"); when she expresses two or more of them in combination ("God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that"); or when she says anything at all in her imitable my sentence went on the Tilt-A-Whirl and got nauseous way ("And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain").