Sarah Palin on debating Al Gore:
INGRAHAM:Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue?
PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate with his friends setting it up or being the commentators I’ll get clobbered because, you know, they don’t want to listen to the facts. They don’t want to listen to some reasonable voices in this. And that was proven with the publication of this op-ed, where they kind of got all we-weed up about it and wanted to call me and others deniers of changing weather patterns and climate conditions. Trying to make the issue into something that it is not.
INGRAHAM: But what if it’s an Oxford-style, proper debate format. I mean, he’s going to chicken out. I mean, if you challenge him to a debate, do you actually think he would accept it?
PALIN: I don’t know, I don’t know. Oh, he wouldn’t want to lower himself, I think, to, you know, my level to debate little old Sarah Palin from Wasilla.
What the forum? Who cares what the forum! There's so many things wrong with this, I don't know where to begin. They ignore the facts? Reasonable voices? What the forum? Yeah, okay, maybe one of the "facts" we ignore is that the Earth is only 5,000 years old and that Jews will be returning to Israel soon because of the end times. Those facts? Ignore!
But what's revealing here is her ongoing excuse-making. She quit in Alaska because other people were harassing and distracting her from governing. In this case, she's preemptively suggesting that if there were a debate, her embarrassing loss would be due to liberal bias and not the fact that she's a total fucking moron who's way, way, WAY out of her depth -- clinging desperately to boilerplate talking points and, you know, winkie faces.