Idiot of the Day XI

Normally I try to keep the Idiot of the Day posts to people I run into through my travels and work and whatever, but this time I gotta go bigger. This time, I'm pointing out the idiocy of someone who has been there and done that more times than is worth counting, but nevertheless always goes the extra distance to show they are at the top of their class when it comes to being pure idiot.

I give you Sarah Palin.

In case you were overwhelmed by all the snowpocalypse news, the Tea Baggers (I mean, Tea Partiers) had themselves a little get together over the weekend in Nashville. I'd be more open to this tea party movement if it weren't being so overrun and co-opted by the GOP, which wasn't supposed to be the point. But when you are talking about a group of people who are more 98% white and pissed off about anything that doesn't involve being white, well, that is the GOP's bread and butter, so of course they are going to take it over and turn it into another mouthpiece alongside Fox News.

The big draw for the Nashville convention (with a packed house of 600 people, mind you, which is half of what the annual Photoshop Conference I attend pulls in) was Palin, who gave a riotous speech and did all the Obama bashing she's known for and provided zero solutions to anything other than just bitching about how awful things are in this country. I could have cared less, except for the reports that Palin referred to the palm of her left hand during the Q&A session.

Turns out the idiot had a cheat sheet written on her palm. It had three notes on it: "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits." The phrase "Budget cuts" was also there, though the word "Budget" had been crossed out. What kind of leader needs to write shit on the palm of her hand, least of all writing down the three main fucking talking points of your party? You can read more about this over at the Post, but it's clear that she is a grade-A moron and I am just continually stunned that Republicans take her and Beck, Gingrich and others seriously. Let's remember, folks: She needed a cheat sheet to remember three prime talking points of her political party (which she apparently is one of the leaders) all to impress 600 people in a Nashville convention hall. Maybe she'll pull a Emmett Fitz-Hume if she gives a keynote at Republican National Convention.