Middle-School Orthography

Versha Sharma at TPM has done us a service: Pasting text of Palin's freakish "taking my remaining marbles" speech. Palin's gubernatorial site has a version of the text up, but it's been changed to eliminate some of the more egregious middle-school-caliber affectations.

For instance, compare this snippet from your original with the cleaned-up remnant on her website:

Original (from TPM):

But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted THOUSANDS of hours of YOUR time and shelled out some two million of YOUR dollars to respond to "opposition research" - that's money NOT going to fund teachers or troopers - or safer roads

Palin's cleaned up version on the Alaska state website:

But it hasn't been cheap - the State has wasted thousands of hours of your time and shelled out some two million of your dollars to respond to “opposition research” – that’s money not going to fund teachers or troopers – or safer roads.

So TPM has done a good thing by preserving the original--she's childish not just in thought but in writing. Maybe Bill Kristol writes with RANDOM capitalized WORDS and that's why he LIKES her so?