Sarah Speaks

Gov. Palin takes to the pages of the W$J to welcome our new president to office and offer some advice. She talks up her three favorite topics: energy (although she resists using her favorite phrase "America's hungry markets"), fiscal discipline, and military strength. Coincidentally, those (along with anti-bailout cheap shots) should be the themes the GOP pounds from now until doomsday, or 2012, whichever comes first. 

I love how she clearly wrote this herself (if it was written by a staffer, the staffer captured the Palin voice perfectly). It's full of enthusiasm, full of Alaska-talk, and full of her beloved out-of-control metaphors: i.e. "when congressional appropriation trains run too hastily, they accumulate excess baggage, spending more taxpayer money." Even her awkward grammar - "especially evident in these trying economic times" - is charming (she really talks like this). 

The relatively dull contributions from fellow pols Newt Gingrich, George McGovern, and Jose Maria Aznar are examples of more conventional pol-speak. Hopefully, she will avoid those sorts of tropes. 

My only hope is that she learns to speak the language of "No On Bailouts." Gingrich is on the right track, but anytime you start talking about the Great Depression, modern folk start to tune you out.