You betcha!

Go for it! Please!:

In a new Rasmussen poll out today, Republicans overwhelmingly say that they want Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as their presidential nominee in 2012. Sixty-four percent of GOP respondents said that Palin would be their top choice in 2012..

Psst... Governor, you'll need this:



Update 11/16: The 'Africa as nation not continent' is apparently a hoax. I find it fascinating how iconic stories like these, even though fake, go to the heart of the matter: Governor Palin's ignorance and lack of depth illustrated in one joke about not knowing about Africa. Often not true (Ford was not a klutz, Quayle actually had some intelligence...), the stories take hold and are hard to eradicate. I have done my share of repeating false information, as with this one. It was too delightfully funny to be true.

Update 11/18: Dick Cavett writes a riff for the New York Times where he delightedly mocks Palin's style of speech:

What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.

And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.