I Love Sarah Palin, But...

Sara Palin is a gifted politician.  Her love of country is as clear as a winter's day.

She could be a good president, maybe even a great one, depending on circumstances.  She has all the attributes of a leader: she's personally charming, down-to-earth, she's attractive, but her writing drives me crazy!

Every sentence she composes or utters in real-time is a convoluted mess of subordinate clauses.  Every idea introduced gives way to a meandering aside, a parenthetical thought, an overwrought allegory, a call back to another argument from another day.

Example, from Facebook 5 July 2013 re: John Kerry's yacht:

"Our government, yet again, either had no idea where the boss was, or worse yet, they lied to us. (Oops-a-daisy. Correction. In Obamaspeak, we were told the "least untruthful statement.") Our government directed its swift-ly boat changing denials to what one can only surmise is their perception of who we are: a nation of sheep – heads down, grazing away, gullible, ignorant, and undeserving of truth. "

A better approach:

What happened here? Apparently, the State Department had no idea where the boss was.  Was he on the boat? Was he in Nantucket?  Was he in Washington?  I'm guessing the minions wanted to defend their patrician boss, so they made something up.  They lied.  In Obamaspeak, they said the least untruthful thing.  They made up swiftly changing stories -- about the Vietnam veteran and his boat.  After all, they consider us a nation of sheep, we must graze on what they feed us. This way, we may be fleeced to fund their bureaucracies.

That's more satisfying, isn't it?

She could be president, but never will be until she disciplines her pen and writes, thinks and speaks directly: makes concise and compelling arguments with less circumlocution and more elucidation.