They usually don’t have much interesting or clever to say, but Gawker has this one just about nailed:

This is a sad and not-at-all entertaining story of broke-ass bored trashy people in a miserable unhealthy little sprawling town using and selling drugs to briefly escape the dull pain of their shitty lives, and it would not be news that the mother of a high school dropout who’s marrying some idiot girl he impregnated was arrested for using drugs except that at some point we were all instructed to admire these exalted Real Americans. The Republicans were sort of right, these people are representative of America’s small towns, and that is why as a whole we decided to elect the smart, educated, well-off urbanite aspirational black couple from Chicago instead of the angry Vietnam veteran and the scary PTA moron-bitch with the fucked-up family.

Sarah Palin could get a $7 million book deal.

But she hasn’t yet, so perhaps I should not despair?

How much money has the Republican National Committee spent on Sarah Palin’s clothes, hair and makeup since her selection as McCain’s running mate in late August?

This is one of the reasons the Humane Society’s Legislative Fund decided to break their policy of not endorsing presidential candidates this year and endorse Obama.

My proposal:  legalize the shooting of white American piece-of-shit rednecks from airplanes.

Andrew Sullivan:

Ask yourself: can you name another Supreme Court decision apart from Roe vs Wade? Can you name a single newspaper or magazine you currently read? If you can, you are more qualified to be President than Sarah Palin.

Well, wouldn’t ya know it…I AM more qualified to be President than Sarah Palin!

On September 9, Jonathan Stein asked, rhetorically, “does Sarah Palin not read the newspaper?”

Now, after seeing a new interview with Katie Couric, it seems the answer may in fact be:  maybe not!

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this - to stay informed and to understand the world?

PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media -

COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.

PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.

COURIC: Can you name any of them?

PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.

Forget that she apparantly doesn’t read a newspaper of any sort (and wants to be Vice President).  Shouldn’t she at least be able to come up with a better lie than “all of them.”  Could she not even think of the name of a single newspaper?!

Unreal.

Sam Harris defends elitism and guts Sarah Palin like a downed moose.

Ask yourself: how has “elitism” become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth-in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn’t seem too intelligent or well educated.

To restate the facts (since she is not permitted to give a legitimate interview to the press and will not be challenged on any of this by the Obama-Biden campaign), Sarah Palin believes:

• Earth was created 6,000 years ago.
• The Christian God directly and consciously controls world events.
• That we are living in the “end-times,” meaning that the earthly world will soon collapse into warfare and chaos (beginning in the Middle East), and that true Christians will then be lifted bodily into Heaven where they will gleefully watch the rest of us burning and suffering below.
• That the above is a good thing and that it will probably happen in her lifetime.

In three months she could potentially be in control of America’s nuclear codes.

How many swing voters actually know this?

I would offer a $1 million reward for the first person who unearthed video of Sarah Palin speaking in tongues at her Pentecostal church.  If such video footage actually exists, and if somebody actually found it, great!  I’m sure such a thing would shave off thousands of votes from McCain in each swing state and could potentially flip one or more of those states to Obama.

But even if there is no such footage, the publicity from my $1 million offer would shine a light on the fact of Palin’s Pentecostalism.  It would become one more mini-issue that would have an effect on the low-information ignoramuses who will decide this election.  They might not be bright, but they are mostly sane, and sane people would not like the idea of a kooky creationist being one malignant melanoma away from running the country.

So does anybody have a million bucks you’d be willing to part with for a good cause?

1. Being Pentecostal
2. Abusing her power in ways both petty and serious
3. Lying and also lying (or is she just speaking in tongues?)

And did you know she’s a failure as a parent and hates polar bears?