Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope..... And if we're really lucky, she'll pick Ann Coulter to be her vice presidential running mate. A dream ticket come true (for the Democrats)! Sarah coined a new word today--"refudiate." Just think of all the vocabulary additions she can make to the lexicon created by Dubya Bush during his comedic/tragic years as President.
Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "refudiate," of course, is not a word.
After deleting the offending tweet, Palin replaced it with another, calling on "peaceful New Yorkers" to "refute the Ground Zero mosque plan" -- although the word she was apparently looking for was "repudiate."
Then came the kicker: To quell the ribbing she was receiving on Twitter, Palin posted another tweet: " 'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!"
This spawned plenty of scorn Monday in liberal blogs, as well as a new meme on Twitter, #ShakesPalin, in which participants revamped classic Shakespeare quotes, Palin-style. Perhaps the best came from the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez (a.k.a. @Normative): "To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals, or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees." --Matt DeLong
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