Sarah Palin lashes out at running mate John McCain, the Republican party, and claims President Obama is "hell bent on weakening America." Wow, SOMEBODY sure stored up a lot of venom over the holidays!

At the1:21 mark:  On McCain's comments on the TODAY Show that he is looking to compromise with the administration on comprehensive immigration reform: "I don't think the priority of the Republican Party should be capitulating or compromising when it comes to our principles and those time tested truths that help build our country."

Palin is buying into her own ridiculous Mama Grizzly meme here by refusing to acknowledge that politicians from both sides of the aisle HAVE to work together to solve the problems facing our country, and that simply folding their arms over their chests and refusing to budge is not helpful to our nation.

By the way THAT is not how Palin herself interacted with the Democrats in Alaska.  She did work across party lines, right up until McCain tapped her as his VP running mate.  Then she decided that the Democrats were the enemy, a fact driven home when they kicked the McCain/Palin ticket's ass in the 2010 election.

(She also broke ethics rules, spent money like crazy, and was once referred to as "a pretty good socialist governor."  Are you Teabaggers paying attention?)

At the 1:39 mark: On the GOP's need to stand firm: "What the American public wants to see right now...is not so much the idea of compromise but drawing some lines in the sand and warning these newly elected and re-elected Congressmen and women and Senators that we expect them to adhere to the will of the people, whether it comes to repealing ObamaCare, whether it comes to not raising the debt ceiling, whether it comes to securing our borders. We want some lines drawn in the sand and we want that done today."

Jesus!  Is she completely off of her meds?

At the 2:18  mark: Palin: "We keep giving some of these personalities in the GOP chance after chance to prove to the American public that it's the GOP's ideas and values and planks in the platform that should be implemented to provide solutions to America's challenges. But they've blown it too many times and this is to me kind of like their last chance. Draw some lines in the sand."

What is with her and "drawing lines in the sand?" Did somebody get her one of those tiny Zen sand gardens for Christmas and she completely missed the point of using it to relax and instead spends her time digging deep World War 1 style partisan trenches with her nail file?

At the 2:49  mark: Palin: "Don't be talking about capitulation and compromise at this point."
Laura: "That's your former running mate. That's the guy who picked you on the ticket talking about comprehensive immigration reform."

Palin: "I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's got some ideas that ultimately will result in no amnesty and securing our borders. Maybe that's what he's got in mind on this. Again, we've got to draw some lines in the sand."

"Lines in the sand Laura, lines in the sand!  Dammit aren't you listening to me?"

At the 3:38 mark: Palin: "We've got to be able to respect our politicians and trust what it is they are doing. Now, I don't personally trust what comes out of the White House....[Obama] is hell bent on weakening America and he has told us back in March of 2006 that it weakens America domestically and internationally to raise the debt ceiling. And he said it is a sign of failed leadership to support raising the debt ceiling. And now he is doing exactly that. So, what Obama is doing--purposefully weakening America, because he understood that debt weakens America domestically and internationally--and yet now he supports increasing debt."

Laura: "So his goal is to weaken America?"

Palin: "On this issue it has to be, otherwise, what did he mean back in March of 2006 when he said that he understood that increasing debt weakens America?"

Of course the difference is that the Bush administration was raising the debt ceiling to continue to pay for two out of control wars and their horrible economic choices, and Obama is desperately trying to stave off a collapse of the American, and world, economy that is the result of those stupid decisions during the Bush years.

Which, by the way, is yet another reason to give thanks that we have an intelligent President like Barack Obama instead of a crazed old man like John McCain and his sand line drawing banshee sidekick.