Reading this was a great way to start my day. :-D

Next thing you know, the McCain campaign staffers will have to distribute photocopied samizdat accounts of the mayhem in order to make sure that they aren't sent to count trees or turned into unpersons.

Wheeeeeee!

Hey - a quick correction, your post says she didn't know which countries were in NATO.

Actually she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA - which is far more egregious considering there are only 3 to my knowledge: America, Canada, and Mexico.

This is going to be more entertaining than any movie I've ever seen (including Trading Places).

This is going to be the most fun I've had since, well, ever.

She didn't know who is in NAFTA. What kind of fool doesn't know that? But I defy anyone to rattle off all the members of NATO.

She didn't know the countries in NATO, not NAFTA. That's much much worse. Feel free to delete this comment once it's changed.

Palin 2012!!!! 535-3!!!

Sorry about that, clearly I'm still recovering from Election Night -- thanks for the catch, everyone.

Caribou Barbie is even dumber than I thought (and that's pretty goddamned dumb). The Republicans have jettisoned all intelleigence from their party.

I saw a map recently of all of the counties in America and whether they trended more toward the Dems or Repubs vs. 2004. The only regions that trended more Repub were Appalachia and Texas and maybe a few other counties scattered around the country. The Republicans are on a course to be come a regional party of low-information white people.

Pailin didn't know which countries are members in NAFTA and she never heard of NATO.

Stupid is the new competent.

Last night FOX had a segment on the dispute, which cast Palin pretty much as the witch.

... about our democracy that we went within a whisker of voting choosing a (vice-) president who didn't know Africa was a continent?

What it tells us is that elections are determined almost entirely by paid propaganda, that regular voters have no chance to ask the candidates the questions that matter, and that the public commercial media are no better.

Kudos to Chris Hitchens who said that mass media should refuse to cover Palin until she holds a press conference. Boos to the rest of the propaganda industry.

Which is it folks? 3 different versions now. I'm not listening to the thing at work - too obvious.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

Die-hard conservative Palin supporters could do it. Leprosy is contagious, after all.

Really she thought Africa was a country?!?...A country?!?...Really?!?

I have to wonder if Sarah Palin really is that ignorant and John McCain and his team were foolish enough to pick her anyway, or if the McCain team is trying to put the blame on her so they can get work again.

He does make a good point though: No matter whether you think the editing of Katie Couric's interview was biased or not, the questions were fair and Sarah Palin couldn't answer them.

I sure hope The Notorious W.E.S. is wrong about Palin being finished.

Run, Sarah, Run!!!

Gov. Palin was not granted her request, as alleged today, to speak at Sen. McCain's concession speech...that proves that not only is she clueless as to grasping the historic gravity of the moment, but she is blind to that singular fact that that was Sen. McCain's own moment, his chance to go out on his shield, which he did...as a still-proud Phoenix native, i was already cringing at the thought of local yahoos and brownshirts hurling crass and delusional epithets while the whole world was watching; her "insights" would at best would only be seen as self-serving..."dont you...forget about me..."

SP will always have her base in the right-wing media, and its those blowhards that will bang that drum loudest for the upcoming GOP cultural war...it will be a war of attrition, one that, unfortunately, the better GOP lights such as Romney and Bobby Jindal look unequipped to counter at this time...it is sad to envision that SP will listen to Hannity et al, and keep the wedge in formation...it just hurts the nation as a whole...

My faith in the political process has been destroyed. I can't believe that there were problems, serious problems, between the Palin and McCain camps. They all seem like such nice people, charming, friendly, nicely dressed, clean cut, well-spoken - you know, all the things we expect from politicians. And as far as Africa is concerned, why would we expect a candidate for the Vice-Presidency to know more than the current administration? That just seems patently unfair. I, for one, will be supporting Palin in 2012. I hope you will, too. Maybe by then Africa will be a country.

I think the Republican establishment HAS TO demonize Palin; admittedly not that hard a task.

If they don't completely crush her the establishment Republican Party ... aka the take-the-money-and-run Bush wing ... risks the permanent fracture of the fragile coalition of snake handling fundies, backwoods racists, and go-to hell-libertarians that their party has cobbled into a basis of their power since the days of Nixxxon. A Palin left standing could easily peel the above mentioned folks off.

Personally, I think a fracture like that would be good for this country and, ultimately for whatever remains of the true fiscal conservative wing of the Republican party (not the lip service charge and spend wing now in power). It would help marginalize the more crazed, flat earth portion of the so called "socially conservative" movement, and it might provide people with a REAL alternative fiscally.

But it would take a few election cycles to reestablish the balance of power between the Ds and the the two new emerging parties. Although the Democrats - fractious lot that they are - could easily shorten this period with their own internecine ideological battles.

We intend to constantly remind the base about these people ....

Yeah, that "base" of, what, about 13 drooling troglodytes?

Erick, I want to remind you that Stalin, Hitler, and Franco are all dead now. No need to froth at the mouth on behalf of those who don't display your idea of "right thinking."