Oops, the Republicans goofed. Dan Quayle's party still has spelling problems. Read the text of Sarah Palin's speech. Someone has cleaned up the original transcript, correcting "new-clear plants" to "nuclear plants" and "new-clear weapons" to "nuclear weapons", but another howler escaped unnoticed. Could someone explain who or what a "habber-dasher" is?
"Long ago, a young farmer and habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to the vice presidency," says Palin. She must have had Truman in mind. But he was a "haberdasher", not a "habber-dasher".
Palin gave a pretty good speech — punchy, warm and stirring, it's as good to read as it must have been to listen to, but someone should have vetted it with a dictionary in hand.
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