Deja View...

"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
Wm. F. Buckley jr.

And now for another direct quote: (This might be the one Mr. Buckley was referring to.)

"Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we’re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations." sic.
Governor Sarah Palin

Now let us all bow our heads in prayer.......

...Yes friends, I suppose we all thought that with the imminent dethroning of GW the third just around the corner, these kinds of things would also be history, that we would collectively be reduced to either the bland introspective colloquies of the masses of reporters or the clipped incisive precision of William F. Buckley's many adherents.

But,...not so. We were wrong! Another contender for daily massacre of the English language is upon us. Another spectre has reared its head, albeit this one much prettier than George's and I am not talking about 'that one'.

This one, safely hidden away and preserved by the cold for all these years, serenely uninformed on the basics of human experience appears ready to elevate the idiotic beyond the ken of the imbecile, the foolish into the stratosphere of the wise, and the moronic to the level of high art.
( Something George never managed, and I use that term loosely.)

This one who can charm the most vicious adversary with a smile and slay an objection with a conspiratorial wink is poised, positioned, perfumed and polished. She is coiffed, coutured and almost blissfully unprepared for even the most casual of offhand comments and the good news is,....that laughter is still the best medicine.

Leno and Letterman, O'Brien and Maher, none shall lack for material in the next four years. Tina Fey shall be elevated to Jester for Life, with three oak leaf clusters, and Garretson Beekman Trudeau will have a field day.

Let us now conclude with another direct quote that seems apropos to the career in question:

"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
Wm. F. Buckley jr.

Thus far the gospel from brother William.