[Vision2020] 30 ways to a most powerful constabulary

[Joe Campbell]

Is Palin running for anything at the moment? Is she running against  
Sotomayor? I'm not really sure why we're comparing them.

For the record, the reason I didn't vote for her had to do with her  
lack of experience not her misuse of language. But it's pretty much a  
done deal since she can't even stand the heat of being Governor of  
Alaska, so she is not a serious candidate for President of the US. But  
keep thinking she is!

By the way, what conclusion should we draw from this little exercise?  
Are malapropisms relevant or not? I think not which means this post of  
yours is just as bad as the one you criticized (which by the way was  
followed by a retraction AND an apology). On the other hand, if this  
kind of crap is relevant, then you have no complaint.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 17, 2009, at 6:06 AM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>  
wrote:

> For those on the list  who found Governor Palin to be a less than  
> stellar intellect because of a totally unsubstantiated assertion  
> that she once confused succeed with secede, and that wise latina  
> Sonia Sotomeyor the paragon of the well educated women...
>
> From the Weekly Standard, 20 July edition:
>
> If Sarah Palin Had Said It . . . (Update)
>
> Ed Whelan writes:
>
> Judge Sotomayor says “eminent” when she means “imminent,”  
> “providence” instead of “province,” “story of knowledge”  
> instead of “store of knowledge,” and so on. Does the fact that  
> she is a Latina immunize her from attention to that sort of (admitte 
> dly not uncommon) foible?
>
> To answer Whelan's question: These malapropisms would only be  
> noteworthy and revealing if they were spoken by a certain country  
> bumpkin Republican governor of Alaska. When a wise Latina  
> accidentally says "vagrancies of ... the moment" instead of  
> "vagaries of ... the moment" during the oral argument of the Ricci  
> case, we're supposedi to ignore the slip-up, as the Wall Street  
> Journal did, but make sure to inform readers that they should be  
> impressed by the fact that "The Catholic-school-educated judge  
> clearly knew the Latin plural of 'forum.'"
>
> But enough about her errors of diction. I wouldn't want to get  
> Sotomayor's reputation for writing pieces "that didn't distinguish  
> between substantive and trivial points, with petty editing  
> suggestions--fixing typos and the like--rather than focusing on the  
> core analytical issues."
>
> Update: Allahpundit has the video and a choice Sotomayor quote:  
> "each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure  
> or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister."
>
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