CBS News: Palin's repeated zingers seem to be losing some luster

[sabra]

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/10/politics/fromtheroad/entry4434299.shtml

(FAIRFAX, VA.) - Almost every politician who runs for national office develops a well-heeled stump speech that forms the basis of his or her remarks to crowds along the trail. But over the past week, Sarah Palin has been particularly rigid in sticking to the script — even for a politician.

Every time she delivers the much-critiqued line about how she “said thanks, but no thanks to that bridge to nowhere,” she does so with nearly the same exact cadence and intonation.

While the line still gets applause, it’s likely that many people among the cheering throngs who have come out in the thousands to see her speak have already heard Palin on TV more than once talking about how she took the governor’s private jet and “put it on eBay.”

At a rally in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Palin seemed to recognize that at least one of her zingers—which went over so well the first time she used it at her acceptance speech in St. Paul — we beginning to lose some of its luster.

“We just don’t know quite what to think of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they’re listening and then will turn around and talk about how they cling to their religion and their guns when they’re not,” she said before rushing through the second part of the punch line, which she flavored with a local touch.

“We tend to like candidates who don’t talk one way about us in Lancaster and another way in San Francisco,” she said as quickly as she could before moving on.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Novelty wearing off. Must teach the show pony some new tricks.

[RufusTFirefly]

27. "I really wasn't expecting all this hoopla."

"And you can quote me on that!"

[BOSSHOG]

2. Just like Her

[liberalmuse]

3. Palin will soon jump the moose.

When Maddow put her clips on last night, one after another, with her saying the same exact thing, that's when I realized this is going to get old for her supporters really fast.

[bullwinkle428]

16. That string of clips needs to be put together and broadcast on Youtube

to hammer the "one-trick pony" message home!

[Levgreee]

43. is there a clip of that anywhere?

[renate]

49. her aides must be gritting their teeth

"If she says it one more time I'm going to scream.... please don't say it please don't say it please don't say it... {oh my God she said it} Hahaha, good one, Sarah! Oh you are so folksy!"

P.S. You can say "jump the moose" as many times as you want--that won't get old. :rofl:

[mwb970]

54. I'm getting so I can say the "thanks but no thanks" line just like her!

Including the shrill, annoyingly nasal voice and flat far-north accent.

[TlalocW]

4. A noun, a verb, and 9/11

A noun, a verb, and POW.
A bridge, a lie, a snarky look on the face.

Republicans have to keep themselves in simple patterns. Stepping outside their comfort zone makes them blow a gasket.

TlalocW

[Connie_Corleone]

5. Someone needs to write her a new speech to read.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Love the signature image! n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

51. But that would take her 4-5 days of constant tutoring to deliver

She's a fucking puppet.

"zinger."

The first time it's a zinger. The second time, it's nostalgia for the zinger. The third time it's a stale old joke.

[originalpckelly]

6. "Do I have deja Palin, or did she say that exact same thing yesterday?"

:P

[Lex]

8. "Hey did you hear I said, "Thanks but no thanks to the Bridge to Nowhere?"

"Oh, you've heard that one?"

[Mabus]

9. I'm watching her now and the crowd isn't cheering as long or laughing as loudly

as they did last week. The crowd is pretty flat and I'm liking it.

[MadrasT]

22. Hug for taking one for the team.

I can't stomach her. :hug:

[Mabus]

26. I can't find the remote.

And I'm in the middle of cutting the dog's nails or I would have turned it off.

[lukasahero]

34. How do I recommend for a DUzy award?

The two of you should be honored. :rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

33. It's probably the same crowd they keep busing in..

there's only so many times you can act excited about the same tired lines.

[Mabus]

45. Those community service sentences can be a bitch.

Having to go to a McCain-Palin rally might help reduce recidivism. I mean, people don't go see McCain-Palin because they want to, right? It's either got to be a punishment or they look at like the circus is in town.

[Virginia Dare]

46. Mostly fundies looking for the rapture is my guess...n/t

[CoffeeCat]

10. The trained seal...

...needs some new tricks.

She's still awkwardly reading off of her index cards, too.

I really don't know how she'll get through the veep debates. They're in three weeks!

[Sheets of Easter]

11. The Bridge to Nowhere chip in her circuit board must be shorting.

[tridim]

12. But the crowd still does their clapping seal act every time.

Me, I LOL every time I hear her force out the same lies 2 or 3 times each day.

[WolverineDG]

13. The One Trick Pony Rides Away nt

[Enrique]

23. i'm offended!

you called this nice lady a pony!

[WolverineDG]

41. Actually, I think she's a cow

but I don't know any anti-establishment songs involving cows, sooo....

:shrug:

dg

[mikeytherat]

24. Excellent!

Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end.
But there won't be any trumpets blowing, come the judgment day.
On the bloody morning after One Trick Pony rides away.

mikey_the_rat

[hamsterjill]

37. Great Song!!!

Billy Jack!!!

[WolverineDG]

40. I learned that song at camp

I still love to sing that chorus when someone does something hypocritical. :evilgrin:

dg

[cali]

14. need to teach the lipsticked.... piece of shit

some new tricks.

[City Lights]

15. Sarah's shootin' blanks!

You're in the big leagues, Mooselini. You're gonna have to learn some new material. Spitting out over-used one-liners will only carry you so far.

[monmouth]

17. If I were a brunette and had some fake glasses, I could stand

in and repeat that stupid speech without a teleprompter. I've memorized it and could deliver it soooo much better. Boy, the repugs really lost out in not vetting me....LOL.

[Enrique]

18. how long before we see flop sweat n/t

[Lex]

20. *tap* *tap* "Is this thing on?"

nt

[JBoy]

29. *Voice from the back of the room* "You suck!"

[K8-EEE]

19. Could she BE more BORING???

Who the hell tells the same jokes EVERY DAY? I don't get her appeal AT ALL. What a ridiculous woman!

[chemenger]

21. A One-Trick Pony

This pony needs to be put down.

On edit: OOPS! Didn't see that WolverineDG up-thread already called her a one-trick pony. My bad and my apology to WolverineDG.

[Retrograde]

25. ooh! shiny!

That's the problem with distractions: they get old really quickly. Then you have to distract people with something newer and shinier. Unfortunately for the McCain campaign, Palin doesn't seem capable of doing an unscripted stump speech, and it takes time to memorize new lines, so she has to keep repeating herself.

Just more of the same.

[bushmeister0]

38. Distraction? How about car keys? She could just rattle them up there at the podium

and anyone who dared point out that she was just rattling keys would be roundly vilified for being a sexist. God knows Hillary always got a free ride!

[goclark]

28. tSarah the cheerleader ~ same old cheer everfyday but she

is not on a winning team.

Her quarterback is not a winner so she can't play the game by herself.

That's why I love Obama/Biden ~ they can't each throw the ball because they have a brain and class.

[bemildred]

30. Well, it's been two whole weeks now ... nt

[BrainStorm]

31. Humor is usually not served by continued repetition of the same jokes.

Now, if she were repeating important policy points, repetition would be good.

[road2000]

32. A tin ear and a deaf ear.

What surprises me is that she's still using the "Bridge to Nowhere" and "Plane on eBay" references with a deaf ear to the fact that they've been proven untrue. The media is tepid and timid, but both issues have been debunked.

PS: to whoever coined "Mooselini", my hat is off to you!

[Old and In the Way]

35. I hope she keeps repeating these obvious lies.

There will come a time soon where even the core kool-aid drinkers will start wondering why she continues to lie to them. She's not fooling us, so the only people whose intelligence she's insulting are those that are in the audience. OTOH they vote Republican, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised that they are conditioned to applaud when being lied to.

[bushmeister0]

36. Her "much-critiqued line" about the bridge?

How about her "blatant falsehood," that would be more accurate. Critiqued makes it sound like there's some debate going on here.

Even in this day and age of faux news you can't just take what is basically the equivalent of the mayor of Charlotte NC for 2 years and suddenly make her into a national politician capable of handling what Obama and McCain have been doing most of their lives. And all this in two weeks.

She's going to crash and burn. I don't think even Karl Rove can pull this one off.

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time, or something like that.

[Pastiche423]

48. Way bad comparison

Charlotte, NC has a population of over 600,000. Not 6,000.

[bushmeister0]

57. Alaska's population, not her hometown.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/02000.html

[Pastiche423]

60. She wasn't the "mayor" of Alaska

She was the mayor of a small town in Alaska. Big difference.

[Rob H.]

39. Snark and sarcasm will only get a person so far

Here's hoping people will start waking up to the fact that she's an empty suit.

[AlCzervik]

42. yeah that's how bots do, monotone and repetitive. She's Hal minus the brain.

[Whisp]

44. she's showing her one trick ponyness.

I noticed the crowd wasn't as enthrusiastic this morning, why would they be, she does the same shit almsot exactly word for word.

what a dunce, what a wolf killing idiot vile dunce.

[Ganja Ninja]

47. Could it be her annoying whining voice or the lack of any real

substance? Certainly the constant repetition of talking points can't be the only thing that is getting on peoples nerves.

[NNN0LHI]

50. Brightest star burns out the fastest

[iceman66]

52. It's about time!

[mwb970]

53. What a totally fake, bogus candidate. Just like bush!

A lying, treasonous religious wacko. How perfect for America in 2008.

[woo me with science]

55. I have been hearing this from people.

They are dismayed when they hear the very same speech over and over. I think it is having an effect, and people are catching on.

[mod mom]

56. Watch for episode II-crocodile tears.

[SteelPenguin]

58. FREEEEEEBIRRRRRD!!!!

[Disturbed]

59. Pit Bull Palin, the Reformer, the Maverick, indeed!

:dunce: :boring:

Every time I see her on TV I change the channel. Soon I won't have to change the channel as often.