Sarah Palin spoke with vestigial Sarah Palin appendage Greta van Susteren on the subject of the Eurozone crisis. Ha ha, no—she did not. She obviously moralized about Todd Akin.

In her statement on Akin yesterday evening, Palin used a truly astonishing number of clichés. See if you can plug the right clichés from our Cliché Word Bank—some may be idiomatically incorrect, given the source—into Palin’s Todd Akin apologia.

Cliché Word Bank:take one for the team

bless his heart

status quo has got to go

hand the mantle to someone else [sic]

standing on principle

you got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them

pile on

“He’s inviting himself back into this general election that’s coming up, and he’s going to get defeated. And that’s unfortunate. That is why we have to think pragmatically about this, and we have to think, well, what’s another option? Is a third-party another option? If it is, let’s go. The ______.

_____, I don’t want to _____ Todd Akin, because in some respects, I understand what he’s trying to say here, in _____, that he doesn’t want to be perceived as a quitter, but _____. . . Missouri is a must-win state. Akin, she said, is not the one to secure the state for the Republicans. . . This is not going in his favor. So you have to step aside. . . from your self-desire to get in there and serve and do what you believe is right, and you have to, in a sense, _____, and you have to step aside, _____.”