Quote of the Day (August 12, 2009)

A long QOTD from opinion columnist Betty Arenson of the The Signal, a newspaper which has been serving the Santa Clara Valley since 1919:

Rhetorically, what is it about Sarah Palin that makes liberals and many Democrats so maniacally unhinged? If she was the de facto, witless twit they would like us to believe, she would be in their obscurity (the same place they keep reality and truth).

Instead, she is rabidly pursued. The overkill quantum of hate garnered by the carpers reaches pathological obsession.

The truth is, she scares them; especially now that she doesn't have to hold her tongue for the sake of an elected office.

Brains? Like it or not, she's got them. She managed to break up Alaska's old boys club, Republican and Democrat, and steward the state's business well enough to deliver a $1,300 check to each Alaskan resident in 2008 from the oil and gas reserves. That's the pure antitheses of what our California and national Democrats can claim.

- PP