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I couldn’t disagree more with this perception of Sarah Palin. On the contrary, she is simply communicating on a frequency that many of us cannot hear. She is speaking to the Christian right.
A very perceptive observation. Sarah Palin is simply speaking in code, conveyed by a very few words; the rest is filler. It took me a while of puzzling over her apparently rambling and incoherent utterances but this gem from the Charlie Gibson interview finally brought it home:
I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.
Now your typical issues-oriented voter will hear this as:
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, etc.
but the religious right will hear:
blah, blah, blah, families, blah, blah, blah, etc.
and will say "That's our girl, you betcha".
There is simply no reason for "families" to be there, neither syntactical, nor logical, nor contextual.
