The voice! That should be enough to end the Palin Pander.

[Catshrink]

Her voice is so grating I reach for the mute button whenever I see her on the TeeVee. Maybe it would be tolerable if there were some substance spewing forth but it's just empty grating noise.

There. Said it.

[1corona4u]

1. I agree...I can't listen to her...

[chatnoir]

2. You're not alone

It makes my ears bleed. I have to have the remote within arms distance whenever she comes on.

[hedgehog]

3. It reminds my dad of this:

[stray cat]

5. The Fargo sheriff would give me alot more confidence!

She was practical, had substance and was no shallow cheerleader.

[Catshrink]

6. Margie wasn't grating, Palin is.

Palin has the same "accent" but not the same tone.

[Joe the Revelator]

11. Ha, great comparison.

[mzmolly]

35. It's Fargo times ten.

Though, I do like Marge.

[stray cat]

4. I was never a huge fan of cheerleaders -

She certainly irritates this female - maybe unfairly but she is coming across as a shallow republican cheerleader with no substance

[POAS]

8. Excuse me but

she wasn't a cheerleader. She was a beauty pageant runner up and a point guard. Bush was the cheerleader.

[begin_within]

7. Could you imagine a State of the Union speech?

[calmblueocean]

9. The voice is truly awful.

I can't imagine that singsong screech delivering a State of the Union.

[seabeyond]

18. it hurts. it hurts like kids whining hurts my ears. literally. i cant do it. lol. n/t

[kskiska]

10. SNL will have a field day

[RagAss]

12. Sounds like this guy to me....

[Catshrink]

13. OMG!

[Imagevision]

14. Palin is Sally Fields with glasses, with a voice more annoying though...

[torbird]

15. Nice Avatar

and also, her voice is annoying, but not because it's naturally so. No one has ever showed her how to use a microphone appropriately. You don't have to yell, lady--the sound guy can just turn up the volume and you can speak as normal. Hillary Clinton used to do that "yelly" thing, too, but she figured out that it becomes a screech real quickly and she moderated her tone. God willing, Palin will never figure it out. What an albatross!

[merh]

19. LOL, maybe that is why her brief stint as sports anchor didn't last.

I think they should give her an outdoor show, you know one of those hunting/fishing shows. And I think her first guest should be Dick Cheney.

Outdoors with the GOP VP Nominee!

[Coexist]

16. .

[Catshrink]

21. Bingo!

That's the one -- and big hair to match.

[Left Is Write]

28. Except that Edie McClurg is likeable, so you can forgive the voice.

[seabeyond]

17. i really hate to say this cause voice like look shouldnt be a part BUT

i cant listen either. it grates. she really needs to lower it a few octaves. and this is not just to attack the woman. but it bothers me

[AlinPA]

20. Sounds like the Miss Mississippi who said "I honestly believe...and such as that"...

[ObamaKerryDem]

23. OMG, I was thinking that, too! LMAO!

And I didn't even bother to watch that rally, just saw snippets on "Countdown" and elsewhere. I can already tell it's going to give me a headache having to tolerate her voice (and McCain's...geez, with all his money, you think he'd fix that hole in his tooth..) for the next couple of months; can't imagine having to do so for four years! Gah..

[Tansy_Gold]

22. If I remember correctly, John McCain used to have a squeaky

and very irritating voice. I'm thinking back in the mid- to late 80s, when he was first getting into big-time national politics. Someone told him that if he ever wanted to run for president he'd need to get the voice fixed. My understanding was that he enlisted the services of a voice coach who taught him to speak much more slowly to lower the register of his voice.

Birds of a feather and all that?


Tansy Gold

[Meshuga]

24. No kidding

He should had just picked Elisabeth Hasselbeck as his running mate. The voice is just annoying and just as qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.

[Left Is Write]

26. She's not old enough.

[Meshuga]

29. Oh Darn!

[Left Is Write]

30. Yeah.

It's too bad.

[eleny]

25. That and McCain's whistling speech - Agh.

The mute button is our friend. I'd rather read their words to learn what's up than hear them spoken.

[Fleshdancer]

27. McCain managed to find the one person who's voice is more grating than his

To be fair though, at least Palin doesn't look creepy when she smiles the way McMansion does.

[quakerboy]

31. Lots of voices annoy me.

I care more about what they say, and what the people in control of those voices do.

And Sarah Palin will destroy this country with what she does and what she says. What tone it is in is completely irrelevant to me.

[EndElectoral]

32. Whew..she seriously needs a voice coach. It is almost unbearable listening to that tone.

[vaberella]

33. I didn't pick up anything annoying about her voice. It could because I found her speech awful.

She's no speech writer. She can't deliver speeches, and her speech was a damn roll call added with a lame shout out.

[1Hippiechick]

34. That bodes well for us, IMO. n/t

[jgraz]

36. Stupid people are always annoying

[FatDave]

37. She sounds exactly like Julia Sweeney

From SNL, Pulp Fiction, Letting Go of God. I like Julia Sweeney though, so I can overlook an annoying voice on her. Not so with Sarah Palin.

[tosh]

38. Thanks for stating that here.

I've been complaining of that (in the privacy of my home) since I first heard ~~the voice~~ on Friday. I've abstained from the palin-bashing but MAN, I'm trying to listen to Gustav coverage! Spare me this pain, please!! Get her offa my tv!!

[Quixote1818]

39. She could break a glass ceiling with that voice!

And a lot of glasses.