Fred Barnes was reduced to incoherent babbling when a noticeably gloomy Fox News announced Mr. Huckabee's victory Thursday night.
And this "goo factor" is why reactions to the pie range from incoherent babbling to orgasmic moans.
Today is really about John McCain and Bill Bradley -- unless they do well, we may be down to nine months of incoherent babbling versus unimaginative bellowing.
Consider, for example, the incoherent babbling of Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y). on Glenn Beck's Fox News TV program after the congressman was accused of groping a male staffer, and the antics of Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla)., who several months ago seemed completely out of control on at least two occasions.
Then, convince them that their incoherent babbling is poetry, toothbrushes are evil, and that personal space is something to be challenged, not observed.
Setting aside for a minute the fact that the substance of Palin's babbling, incoherent response was wrong, she apparently got her centuries and wars crossed.
Similarly, Mark D. Fabiani, Mr. Gore's deputy campaign manager, said on CNN's "Late Edition" today that Mr. Bush "was incoherent -- he was babbling" in trying to explain his own tax-cut proposal at a campaign stop Saturday in Florida.
From a very early age, they can understand the difference between words and babbles or other incoherent sounds.
It immediately triggers the babbling, totally random, borderline incoherent monologues that we spew out when we feel most out of control, when we have totally lost our center and are overwhelmed by the compulsive fear based, panic soaked need to talk and talk and talk until we exhaust ourselves or anyone who has made the unfortunate choice of sitting across from us at our favorite cafe.
