I absolutely agree with you: I hate the “grown up” stuff too. It comes from the overly-educated elite in this country who either have kids in top colleges or who never got over their own elite college experiences. So they use college metaphors no matter how old they are. Juvenile expressions like the Mom party and the Dad party, smartest person in the room, Obama’s I.Q. is off the charts, kitchen table and water cooler discussions (stupid Beltway people don’t even realize water coolers have long been replaced in offices by small kitchens!) Expressions no one outside Washington or New York ever use. Chris Matthews really embodies this stupid style of speaking.
Sarah is incredibly eloquent in her use of everyday language. I thought her “blood libel” speech was brilliant. But neither Hume, Sour Kraut, Liasson, or Juan Williams will ever see that. Sometimes, I wonder if they are all blinded by her beauty.
That's a possibility. I think, though, that what's bliding them doesn't come from Palin, but from themselves! ;^ )