Shout-outs and there ya go agin

She is really getting annoying and undermining her seriousness.

OK, now Palin is just getting annoying.

"There you go again, Joe?"

Shout-out to teachers in her family and some middle-school class?

Ya, ya, ya, ya ... it sounds like a scene from Fargo. No offense to Midwesterners, but she is overdoing it a bit, ya think? (You betcha.)

Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the author of "Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South." Follow him @schaller67.

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