If arrogance is superciliousity combined with ignorance, then Sarah Palin is a megalomaniac according to this formula I just pulled out of my ass:
(Actual Capability + Ambition)/(Assholishness)
I'm including a +/- factor here, where someone who's good but a large asshole will get a small positive score, whereas someone who's evil but has a large assholishness will get a small negative score, so that we could theoretically plot this. Which would be, like, science.
For example, let's compare Martin Luther King to Malcom X; in this case, without having to actually assign values, we know that MLK is much less of an asshole than Malcom X, and got a whole hell of a lot more done, though Malcolm X does have a much higher ambition index. As such, MLK > MX, according to this scale.
In this comparison in the negative you'd have like Castro <> (Note: I went back and edited that inequality in the Castro < Argentinian Junta; when I woke up the morning after, I realized that the math would be all wrong; the better you are in the negative quadrant, the larger the number. Sorry for any confusion there.)
And here's what's interesting about Sarah Palin - she is so incompetent, her own incompetence actually makes her a small force for good in the world. Seriously - because of her Robert Mugabe-like incompetence, she crosses the axis into a world where she is needed and wanted because what she wants cannot be had by people who do not know the countries that make up North America and then declines to brush up on the fact because the people who make these decisions will not let someone that insanely dumb make decisions on those things. I would not be surprised if some Republicans sabotaged machines against McCain this year on her behalf - and I'd respect them more if they did. But I'll miss her, as she rides off on a scrofulous moose, now at the close of her fifteen minutes as the Paris Hilton of politics. She was everything wrong about the last eight years in an impossible way, like a Lewis Carroll parody of Milton Friedman and Jerry Falwell's gay-adopted daughter. And soon, she'll be gone. Sigh.
That Is All For Now.
For example, let's compare Martin Luther King to Malcom X; in this case, without having to actually assign values, we know that MLK is much less of an asshole than Malcom X, and got a whole hell of a lot more done, though Malcolm X does have a much higher ambition index. As such, MLK > MX, according to this scale.
In this comparison in the negative you'd have like Castro <> (Note: I went back and edited that inequality in the Castro < Argentinian Junta; when I woke up the morning after, I realized that the math would be all wrong; the better you are in the negative quadrant, the larger the number. Sorry for any confusion there.)
And here's what's interesting about Sarah Palin - she is so incompetent, her own incompetence actually makes her a small force for good in the world. Seriously - because of her Robert Mugabe-like incompetence, she crosses the axis into a world where she is needed and wanted because what she wants cannot be had by people who do not know the countries that make up North America and then declines to brush up on the fact because the people who make these decisions will not let someone that insanely dumb make decisions on those things. I would not be surprised if some Republicans sabotaged machines against McCain this year on her behalf - and I'd respect them more if they did. But I'll miss her, as she rides off on a scrofulous moose, now at the close of her fifteen minutes as the Paris Hilton of politics. She was everything wrong about the last eight years in an impossible way, like a Lewis Carroll parody of Milton Friedman and Jerry Falwell's gay-adopted daughter. And soon, she'll be gone. Sigh.
That Is All For Now.
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