Just How Stupid IS Sarah Palin, Anyway?

This is already a couple of days old but, since I haven’t written about it yet, here we go.

I never thought I’d say this, but I feel a bit sorry for Sarah Palin.  Sure, her politics are seriously ugly and just her candidacy had the effect of lowering the level of political discourse but, fortunately, she lost, taking John McCain (who would have been a disastrous president) down with her.  She will probably never be elected to another public office again, which is a very good thing, but it’s also why I feel safe in feeling sorry for her.

Sarah Palin

Also, I would like to point out that, contrary to popular belief, Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house.”  That was Tina Fey.  What Sarah Palin said was that one can see Russia from Alaska, which is actually true – on a clear day, you can see the easternmost Siberian island from the westernmost Alaskan island.  That is the kind  of interesting trivia that the governor of a state might very  reasonable want to bring up.  But, shit happens in politics.  Al Gore never said he invented the internet, either.

But, in this video you can actually see a point where her brain stops, the old motor of her mind just seized up, the donkey stopped stock still in the middle of the road and said ‘I ain’t gonna pull this cart no more.’  Still, Sarah bravely carried on, making sure she got in all the buzzwords: liberals, liberals, fast food, purgatory, something.

The weird thing is, it was not an interview like that time Katie Couric caught her off guard by asking  her what newspapers she read and she couldn’t think of any.  It was not a hot mike moment, when she thought nobody was listening.  It was not  even a public speech, where it is easy to forget your lines, or screw them up.  I’ve done that myself.

No, this was a taped speech, that she then put up on her internet channel.  So, not only was it an incredibly stupid speech, but she was not even aware that this was an embarrassingly stupid speech.  That is one seriously mind-boggling level of stupidity.

I take it back.  I don’t really feel sorry for her.