She may claim, as she did in last Thursday’s Vice-Presidential debate, that ”Americans are cravin’ that straight talk,” but they are sure not going to get it from the Governor — not with her peculiar habit of speaking only half a sentence and then moving on to another for spoliation, that strange, ghostly drifting through the haziest phrases, as if she were cruelly condemned to search endlessly for her linguistic home: ”I do take issue with some of the principle there with that redistribution of wealth principle that seems to be espoused by you.”

spoliation (n) 1: the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence 2: the act of stripping and taking by force – New Yorker: Verbage