Sarah Palin tears up at political rally? Are we sure this is THE Sarah Palin?

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

At a rally for longshot Senate candidate on the bayou, Sarah Palin got choked up on Thursday. 

Sarah Palin, a former reality television star, appeared at rally for Rob Maness, the Tea Party candidate for Senate in Louisiana in New Orleans today, and promptly mocked President Obama for that “hopey-changey stuff.” 

But moments later, Palin’s eyes welled with tears at a very Obama-esque notion, when Maness, a retired colonel in the Air Force, describing spending 32 years “soaring above our fruited plain and seeing our purple mountains majesty. Because when you are high above the land of the free there is simply no red or blue states, just the United States of America.” 

Maness choked up as well, while it took Palin, standing to his side, several moments to dry her eyes and compose herself.”

Okay let me get this straight.

Sarah Palin did NOT get choked up when Native Alaskans were freezing and starving to death during the winter of 2009, her eyes did not "well up with tears" over news of the shooting deaths at Sandy Hook (After which she claimed to have bought Todd a new gun in response to all the "anti-gun chatter coming from Washington.") and she certainly was not overcome with emotion when Gabby Giffords was shot in the head.

Yet when some nobody Tea party candidate in New Orleans regurgitates a line originally used by President Obama she suddenly remembers she has tear ducts?

Yeah, I call bullshit on that.

I found the video of the event (The remarks in question start at the 9:00 minute mark.) and the camera did not catch Palin's tears, and until I see video proof to the contrary I think I will remain skeptical.

The only emotions I have witnessed from this woman are anger, hate, and almost overwhelming jealousy. And I am convinced that is about the depth of her emotional sensitivities.

Mitt Romney reads statement addressing the tragic shooting in Colorado. Update!

 I am not simply being a partisan asshole here, but after listening to Romney talk about the shooting I was left with the feeling that he simply had ZERO emotional connection to what had happened.

In fact he almost seemed annoyed by the fact that he had to speak about it, and appeared to be reading the poorly written statement with feigned emotion almost like a bad actor auditioning for a part in the local high school play. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, about his delivery screams "phony" to me.

But you go ahead and watch it and then judge for yourself.

I have to say that for me personally, just based on THIS reaction alone, I would NEVER vote for Mitt Romney in a million years.The man simply comes across as lacking in humanity.

If you want a comparison, here is President Obama's statement.

While watching the President remember that this was during the time when reports were just coming in, and he was standing in front of a group that had come to hear a rousing political speech.  I think the President handled himself very well, and DEFINITELY felt the emotion of this terrible tragedy.

Update: Of course as poor a job as Romney did in addressing this terrible incident, at least he can take some solace in the fact that he was not ignorant enough to have tweeted THIS just hours before the shooting.

You know if ONLY James Holmes had brought spoons, instead of guns, into that packed theater, just imagine how many lives would have been spared.

Leave it to Sarah Palin to ALWAYS be on the wrong side of EVERY horrible tragedy.