The Sarah Palin Question

I routinely find myself in agreement with Steve Benen. I generally like emailing Steve. He always replies and has from time to time given me some help with The Fold Blog. So I know he'll understand when I say I disagree with him on George Stephanopoulos' question to the president this morning about some stupid Facebook comment she made about him.  Maybe it was one of her many twats tweets, I have no idea.  Maybe she said it in public.  She's stupid so it really doesn't matter.  Needless to say while President Obama is busy signing treaties with the second most powerful country in the world, Palin is writing on Facebook.  That should be enough foreign policy comparisons to end this post right now.  But to stress my point, Georgie had it right by asking the president about Palin's comment.

In his follow up post on the subject, Benen highlights Stephanopoulos' response to the criticism.

"Whatever Steve thinks of Sarah Palin," he wrote, "she's a former VP candidate -- and potential challenger to President Obama -- with a strong following in the GOP. She made a pointed critique of a new Presidential policy. By asking the President for his response, I was doing my job."

Georgie is right.  Palin is one of the right wing's leading "thinkers."  She's second in charge only to Rush Limbaugh.  She's a political heavyweight.   She is a cause célèbre for Republicans.  She is, right now, their front-runner to replace Obama.  Yes it's annoying the President of the United States has to spend time acknowledging her existence, but this is where we are at in today's America.  The leading opposition party is led by total fruitcakes who write comments on Twitter and Facebook, use crib notes to get through fluff interviews at Fox News and whose only response to anything is the delusional routine answer of small government, fiscal conservatism.  There isn't a full brain amongst the whole bunch and I wish there was a healthy opposition to what is a one-party government.  Unfortunately we have the president's party and a former half-term governor that doesn't know why there are two Korea's.