The Palin Pathology

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00076.htm

4 OCT 2008

THE SWAMPOODLE REPORT: THE PALIN PATHOLOGY

Sam Smith

Contrary to her Joe Six Pack, hockey mom hokum, Sarah Palin proved in her debate with Joe Biden that she would fit in extremely well in Washington - albeit at an enormous price to the rest of the country.

The secret to this adaptation would be her extraordinary, joyful and utterly remorseless prevarication and perseveration, two hallmarks of contemporary capital pathology.

Her lying was astounding - not merely in the number of misstatements of facts she peddled - but the context in which she dissembled. For example, much of what she argued was based on the premise that she represented the middle class while Biden was a member of the elite. The senator was too polite to point out that, at best estimates, her net worth is at least six times that of Biden.

The really good liar doesn't settle for mere manufactured numbers and events, but creates a whole imaginary ecology in which the lies can blossom. Richard Nixon, for example, was a liar, but he never acquired the sort of manic affection for the act that one finds in Palin.

It is as if she regards life as one big Home Shopping Network on which she is the attractive, buoyant host peddling John McCain or whatever else she has in stock that day.

[tosh]

1. "manic affection for the act" - great call!

[TahitiNut]

2. Really. It's a very apt description from the clear sociopathic joy she gets from ...

... lying and smearing. In an adolescent, it's merely troublesome and worthy of counseling but in an adult is a full-blown personality disorder.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. McCain and Palin both need to spend time on a psychiatrist's couch

The shrink's notes would be very interesting, I'm sure. In fact, I wish it could be legally mandated before the people get a chance to vote.