You are listening to another no fair remembering stuff, the Tuesday edition of the Professional

Left Podcast, and available wherever you get your podcasts, and at our website, pro-leftpod.com,

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And it's not safe for work. You know, Blue Gail, it has been said, and rightly so, that the very weakest most C-minus high school book report way to start

any presentation is by reading the dictionary definition of the keywords you're going to use.

Well, of course, we will not be doing that today.

We're higher quality than that, Drift Glass.

Much higher.

We put a lot more effort into this thing than that kind of crap.

So instead, we'll be turning to the Wikipedia definition of palinism, which defines palinism as, quote, U.S. political figure, Sarah Palin, or a statement or turn a phrase used by U.S. public figure, Sarah Palin, that is unintentionally comical due to malapropisms,

dubious coherency, et cetera, unquote.

Because we started blogging, you know, a dog's age ago in 2004 and you in 2005.

Yep.

I mean, this is my 20-year anniversary this year.

This year, this year, baby. In November of this year. And that was the height of the Bush administration. We fell in love during the Bush administration drift last. Something, you know, some, at least one thing good came out of that era. But we have archives that date back to well before Sarah Palin ever showed up on the national radar.

We didn't know who Sarah Palin was. Maybe that's why we were so happy and carefree.

So instead of seeing Palin as this singular Black Swan event that landed on the political stage, we can see her as a logical choice

of a political party that fully understood its own political base and what that base wanted to see

up there on stage. And they did not want to see Joe Lieberman. No, no. The Republican base appreciated the fact that Lieberman had helped sabotage the Gore campaign in 2000,

but to them, to that Republican base, Holy Joe was just a useful turn code, not vice presidential material.

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