Some Country for Old Men

At Sarah Palin’s paid speaking engagement yesterday to the Tea Party Convention, she railed against Barack Obama and even made some teleprompter jokes (because, AGAIN, no president before Obama ever used one!). The teleprompter jokes are tired and stupid, but they’re all the more striking when the person making them has her own talking points written on the palm of her hand just in case a 7th grade social studies test breaks out. Seriously, this is Sarah Palin’s hand from last night’s speech:

(Click on the image for the larger “yep, that’s Sarah Palin’s hand, alright” photo)

Just for extra yuks, there’s also video of Palin actually using her crib notes during a Q & A session at the Tea Party Convention. I guess it’d be one thing if she were using complicated notes or were honest about looking at something she’d written down. In fact, she used her notes to remind her what the top issues are that she thinks need to be done in Washington.

That’s right, the leader of a movement and a potential major-party presidential nominee can’t remember basic talking points even after years of national media exposure and years of spouting the same nonsense talking points over and over. Of course, Sarah Palin’s almost certainly the victim here — a victim of a vast gotcha media conspiracy and elitists trying to quash real Americans.

Either that or stigmata spontaneously manifested itself on Palin’s palm, conveniently in the shape of GOP talking points.