rocky_and_bullwinkle.thumbnail.jpgIt's no secret that the biggest problem facing the GOP in 2008 is that their party is run by, and supported by, crazy people. To illustrate. Here are some things the GOP faithful believe:

1. Partisan Democrat liberals run the teevee in manner of Evil Cabal or similar.
2. Saddam Hussein totally did too! have nukes and chemical weapons and WMDs.
3. Global Warming is a Fraud launched by False Prophet Scientists with sinister motives.
4. Homosexuals do not deserve equal marriage rights under the law for reasons of ickiness or something equally vague.
5. Barack Obama, like Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry, Al Gore, and Bill Clinton, is a Marxist Communist. (Adding, Obama is an effete elitist latte & malt-liquor-swilling hardcore weenie gangsta rapper who wants to bang your sister, make everyone gay like him, & impose Islamofascism, because he's too smooth, too angry, too Ivy League and too South Side all at the same time.)
6. Torture is swell!
7. Despite its expensive pointlessness, we should drill drill drill! for oil that's not there that we need to wean ourselves off of anyhow.

I could go on. The surface is not at all scratched, itchy as it may be. But this brief summation should suffice to make the point that to be a true-believing GOP voter nowadays, you are required to swallow a lot of untrue, asinine crap.

And we all know this. But now, let us marvel at the sheer unbridled joy with which Greater Wingnuttia has greeted the nomination of Sarah Palin (see for example here, here, et passim), whose qualifications for the presidency, by the measure of the completely demented standards of Modern Conservatism, are restricted exclusively to the following:

1. She is female.
2. She believes a lot of crazy shit.
3. She likes to shoot moose.

And you know what? I'm not joking, even a little bit.