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The "Pink Elephants"

The burning stupid that is Sarah Palin apparently "resonates" with the 10% of the population that is dumber than a box of saltines.

As GottLaff points out, "Seeing Pink Elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens. You can't make this stuff up.

I realize that Sarah Palin will never hold elective office again, but I'm fascinated that more than 5 people can even listen to her grating accented voice ["Mawms kinda just know when somethin's wrong"] for more than a 110-second commercial, let alone are willing to shell out $20 to buy her book, and VOTE FOR HER FOR VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A family friend was reading Palin's book over the July 4th weekend and I noted in passing that one chapter is titled "Drill, Baby, Drill"; the irony is lost as we enter day 79 of the "worst disaster on record" due to such pudding-brained ideas as drilling for oil in mile-deep water.

I hope that Sarah Palin remains active in the public forum in order to serve as a reminder and a cautionary tale. After all, almost 50 million people thought she'd be fine as president some day, and just as alarming, 100 million did not bother to vote against her. Rarely does someone with her potential for national destruction come along (George W. Bush was close), and it's dismaying that so many individuals cannot see it.

The Democratic party has similar dunderheads, but they never make it past precinct captain or, at most, US Representative. The fact that the GOP can put people like Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush onto national tickets and into the Executive Branch of the United States is breathtaking. Every single major problem we have today, every negative headline, is a direct result of an executive decision made from 2001 to 2009. Sure, some of those missteps would have occurred regardless of who was president, but the pattern and breadth of economic, ecologic, military and constitutional disasters can only be explained by a recurring chain of bad decisions within government.

Sarah Palin Whines to Oprah

Boo- fucking -hoo. Palin's kids are off limits!! Except when she purposely inserts them into controversial political and social discussions.



Bristol tells Greta Vansusteren all about abstinence and birth control.

Piper is a Superstar of the anti-abortion movement.

Whether you like Obama or not, his kids are not used as tools to promote his political aspirations or social agenda.

And can someone tell Ms. Palin that, ever since Nixon, whiners don't become president.

Sarah Palin "Going Rogue"

She's such a bad-ass. (Isn't it a bit weird that she named her book after the line written and popularized by comedienne Tina Fey?)

The remarkable thing about the pre-publication buzz is the willingness of McCain operatives to go on record with their disdain. If these folks regarded her as politically viable, I don't think they'd be distancing themselves from her. These are not anonymous statements; they are on record.

Former McCain strategist John Weaver slammed Palin for using the book for “petty and pathetic” score-settling.

“Sarah Palin reminds me of Jimmy Stewart in the movie 'Harvey,' complete with imaginary conversations. All books like these are revisionist and self-serving, by definition,” Weaver wrote in an email to POLITICO. “But the score-settling by someone who wants to be considered a serious national player is petty and pathetic.”

“The problem wasn't who her interview was with, the problem was her interview,” he added. “Couric asked no trick questions."