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palinism is to palin as bushism is to bush
interviewer: "so why do you deserve this job?"
intervieweee: "uhhh (oh shit) umm probably cuz Im a maverick, cuz of the healthcare system, tax reform has got to do with it, a buncha magazines i read, alaska is the shit, boris yelstin,and im a maverick, and uhh, its def all about job creation too."
interviewer: wtf? dood, that was a pretty bad palinism, that about settles it,wer gonna pick the black dood instead.
Derived from bushism, a quote from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that makes the nation shake their head and wonder, "Why?"
"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." -- Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
-Just one of many palinisms
avoiding answering a question by completely blowing it off and instead telling a lengthy story about something unrelated.
can you believe that palinism joe used in economics? who would have thought he could direct a question about the impact of unemployment on the market to his grandfather's farm in alabama?
1. An applicant lacking even basic job skills
2. Someone supremely un-self-aware or lacking any relative sense of what he/she does or doesn't know.
HR sent me another Palin for the marketing manager job.
1. Malapropism, non-sensical verbiage, non-sequitor or other illogical, stream of concious meanderings uttered by Sarah Palin.
2. A form of homespun, Midwestern demagoguery and fear mongering comprised of a stream of logically unrelated and unsupported talking points uttered by an attractive woman with nice cans and a presumably fine ass intended to engender loyalty among those inspired by demagoguery, non-sequitors, a great smile, nice tits and a presumably fine ass.
See, e.g., Palin interview with Couric as parodied on SNL.
A Palinism is contained in the following thread: "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." –-Sarah Palin, in a message posted on Facebook about Obama's health care plan, Aug. 12, 2009
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1. Pejorative term that refers to an incompetent, impractical, irrelevant or incapable person who has been appointed to a position of great importance.
2. A person who holds authority disproportionate to his or her requisite ethics and qualifications. Derived from John McCain's controversial 2008 Vice Presidential pick, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
John was recently made principal, but everybody thinks he's a Palin who can't do the job.
My new boss is such a Palin - he took my deserved place because the CEO is his personal friend.
1) An agressive, yet dim witted, mammal which reacts with uninformed vitriol to incite other palins to attack.
2) A dwindling, but not quite extinct, hateful and fearful mindset usually found in uneducated rednecks and goatropers in the Southeast and Southwest USA.
Watch out, those palins over there, while retarded are easily provoked.
Watch out Daryl and Evelyn are holding signs with racial slurs. I thing they've got the palin.