Sarah Palin and machine-translation

I just came across this incomprehensible quote from Sarah Palin, that at first blush I thought was a misquote:

“I think what Rick Perry having dropped out and that patriot having done well for the front-runner, whom I will call Newt Gingrich now, being the front-runner, having endorsed him, was a good smart move,” Palin said on Fox News. “He kind of took one for the team there, the conservative team, when he dropped out.”

But then the same article contains an embedded video that shows the above quote was verbatim:

You would think that a politician of her stature should at least be able to put together simple sentences. Hopefully the above example was an exception, but I have a sense it isn't. In any case I think this is what the Governor meant to say:

The patriot Rick Perry dropped out and did a favor to the person whom I now consider the front-runner: Newt Gingrich. By dropping out, Perry helped the conservative cause.

What would be cool is for someone to train a machine-translation (or text summarization) algorithm, to convert Palin quotes into simple prose.

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