Dumber than dirt AND a 5-year old
The post-election blame game is already heatin’ up in the GOP and it’s awful entertainin’ to watch, you betcha! Focus is on (surprise surprise) Sarah Palin and the rift she created within the campaign. By now we all are well informed about how uninformed and intellectually incurious Palin is (re-watch the Katie Couric interviews for a refresher), but apparently there was a lot that was kept within the McCain campaign until now. The latest demonstration of the McCain campaign’s wretchedly poor vetting of Palin is the revelation that she had to have explained to her that Africa is a continent, not a country. Our 5-year old knows that! She apparently thought that South Africa simply referred to a geographical region — not a country — on the African continent. She also did not know which countries comprise NAFTA (um, let me see, North American Free Trade Agreement — duh, the country of North America is the answer!). Besides her suspect geographical and historical knowledge (which in the above video link O’Reilly dismisses as essentially irrelevant because you can also just picked that petty stuff up with a tutor), more has come out on her shopaholicism and temper tantrums she threw when reading negative press about herself. And some GOPers are touting her a standard bearer in 2012?? Please please pick her to run against Barack (we’re on a first-name basis now, btw). I’d LOVE to watch those presidential debates….
Kagro X on Daily Kos has a good summary of the implications of Palin’s idiocy here. And here’s the short version of the Fox News report report linked above: