Nicolle Wallace on Late Night says that Sarah Palin's Iowa speech put on display all of the "gaps in her knowledge." Gee ya think?

In the last few minutes Wallace is once again infuriating in that she takes some of the blame for Palin's problems during the 2008 campaign, but then she follows it up with this:

"I think she had every right to blame her handlers, it's just as somebody who had worked in politics for over a decade I had never encountered somebody....like her."

I thought that was quite telling. And of course as somebody who has covered this lunatic for the last eight years, I concur.

I probably need to add to this last post of the day that despite the giant snowstorm dominating the news cycle, there are still plenty of articles, being written about Palin's speech this weekend.

The vast majority of them are far from flattering.

From the National Review: 

Some people contain within them a magical quality that leads their fans toward idol worship, and, for whatever reason, Palin appears to have it in spades. But, as she has discovered for herself of late, this can be a decidedly mixed blessing. On the upside, cults provide their beneficiaries with a ready-made army of apologists and sponsors — people, that is, who have primed themselves to push back hard against the most modest of slights and to exact a price from anyone who exhibits the temerity to criticize their focus. On the downside, cults can serve to inoculate their subjects from legitimate judgment and to ease their descent into inadvertent self-parody. Partly because the media has been reflexively unfair to her, and partly because they feel generally put upon by the culture at large, Palin’s fans have of late provided her mostly with the latter service. Last weekend’s speech was the direct result of that tendency.

Courtesy of CNN:

Her performance on Saturday dismayed key figures in conservative media, including some who thought she was unfairly put to the sword by the press in 2008.

And of course the Guardian:  

At this point, listening to a Sarah Palin speech is like being taped to a chair with conservative bumper stickers and having gimmick coffee mugs thrown at you. It is the natural conclusion of what would happen if a Big Dogs t-shirt became minimally self-aware and developed a politics. Catchphrases abound — some six-years-old and counting — held together only by the fact that Palin is saying them. Moose chili. Mama grizzlies. Don’t retreat, reload. Hopey-changey. Bill Ayers. Benghazi. Vladimir Putin. Lipstick on a pig. They’re laugh lines without thought, unlinked by a program or even syllogism.

There is of course more. Much more. But to be honest I am fairly gagging on Sarah Palin-isms today.

In fact I think I will skip her appearance on Hannity tonight and leave any write up until tomorrow.

I am sure that she will say something mind numbingly stupid and attempt to blame it on the President, because seriously what else could we expect?

You are welcome to treat this as an open thread for that appearance, and I will read all of your comments so that will have some idea as to the number of bodies left in the wake of the train wreck.

Now where is that bottle of wine?