Sorry but I think it is more then just waiting on a laugh. She is in command of something Skybird. Why is she booked at speaking engagements? Are these people waiting for a good laugh at her expense? Personally I would spend my money to laugh at Larry the Cable Guy. Sarah does not qualify for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Was it she would do more and generate more cash by working the circuit with appearances and speaking? Why yes of course. What you are seeing might be the dumbest person the world yet she is becoming very influential. If she is so dreaded and so dumb why is she booked for these events. Why is she seen more than Michele Obama and Hillary Clinton combined?

She's popular for the very same reason that shows like American Idol and The Bachelor are hits. Americans love mindless crap.

I would have to disagree. The woman has booked more speaking engagements than the likes of Joe Biden and Bill Clinton could ever hope to schedule. Even the Blue Collar Comedy Tour takes a break.

Okay AVG, you convinced us: Palin is a brilliant intellectual, she is well in knowledge, wise, and truly educated. By being that, she truly attracts a huge crowd of people who are seeking right these qualities, and think she speaks their minds. That's what makes her a perfect representative of that crowd.

And that's why I avoid all that crowd alltogether. ;) I just can't stand to be outsmarted by so many brilliant, shining people. ;)

No where did I say she was brilliant nor did I say she was well in knowlege, wise or truly educated. Please find that where I stated this. I simply stated she is on demand. No one here including yourself can provide a legitimate answer as to why. For the most part all we have thus far is she is a clown. For such a clown she is in the lime light all the time. Can anyone explain why? So please finish the topic before we move on.

I will never think of myself as a cynic again.

One-upped you on cynicism, did I? :D

Why she is in demand, is very simple to anser: smple solutions for simple minds. The baudi8ence attracted by her is a mirror of her "qualities".

Lance said mookiemookie were a cynic in his comment. Lance is wrong here. mookiemookie brought it to the point. A comparable comment like his was on my lips - but I bit them.

Must be why Obama took off so well at first.

So now we are saying the people who gaither for these events that have Palin as a keynote speaker are simple? Or is it her qualities are the reason for the audience to attend? What might these qualities be? That she is a simple minded funny person and that is what America likes to see as Mookie would have it? All Mookie has done is side step the real reason people show up to hear Palin speak. It is not for a comedy show or a good laugh to be sure. It is people of like minds who apparently are simple minded that know no better according to you. In short, we are still in the mist as to why people show up. You say simple people. Mookie says it is a comedy of errors. Is it really?

You don't have to. I'm glad to do it for you. :D

Maybe noone can give us an answer. I for one cannot see how she could draw so much attention, just like I still wonder to this day why the world decided that I had to know who Paris Hilton is...

Regarding the actual topic here....If Palin did compare herself to Shakespeare (I'm thoroughly confused by everything I've read of that link and in this thread) then I'd say that if she isn't stupid (which ofcourse is relative) then she is at the very least cocky. Anyone here read her book? If yes, do you think that it's of such quality that schoolchildren around the world will read, analyze and perform plays based on it 400 years from now? I very much doubt it to be honest.

No matter what you think of Palin, or what you think she is capable of, comparing her to Shakespeare is just...silly. Utterly silly. Not even Monty Python could make that up...

Who cares? Shakespeare is highly overrated anyways. :DL

Oh I agree!:D Those sonnets nearly became the end of me in English class last year...oooh the horror...but his influence cannot be ignored, nor the fact that we still read his work after several hundred years!

Who writes that doesn't have a Shakespearian like comparison in thier head afterwards? I'd say its the norm. Just like watching a kung fu movie and feeling like Bruce Lee afterwards.