Subtle Sarah

"How's that hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya?"

That's the sound bite Sarah Palin, speaking at the Tea Party Convention this past weekend, wanted news networks to broadcast across the nation. Mission accomplished.

Zinger!!! Finger pistols and a wink.

Watching the clip on FoxNews, George W. Bush, sitting on a couch somewhere in Texas, halfway through a bag of Rold Golds, turned to Laura in disbelief. "That bitch stole my style!." Laura could only shake her head.

Some things, however, Palin would rather not have the world see.

Her palms, for instance.

Apparently Palin wrote crib notes on her palm for the appearance at the Tea Party Convention. There is video of her looking down to refer to it, and of her lifting her open palm toward the camera(to swear on the bible, I'm guessing), unwittingly broadcasting to the entire nation the talking points she apparently lacked the mental capacity to remember: "Energy, Budget Cuts, Tax, Lift American Spirits".

How mind-blowingly disturbing is this, that someone with presidential aspirations uses the methods of a middle school cheat to remember talking points? For crying out loud she only has four or five talking points to begin with! I can only imagine what she'd write on her hand before meeting China's Foreign Minister: "Free Trade-Bad Milk-Checkers-Opium"

Couldn't she have thought of the acronym BELT? (Budget-Energy-Lift-Taxes) It would have been a perfect sound bite for them, "This country needs to lift its BELT and buck up" or something to that effect.

Instead, to be caught looking at her hand, then to raise her left hand in full view of everyone? This is sophomoric stuff. It puts on full display how very unprepared she is for anything but adulation and fame. This, after mocking President Obama in the very same speech for using a teleprompter.

What may be the scariest and most doltish aspect of this, is that if you look at the hand closely, she has "budget cuts" written down, then crossed out the word "budget" and underneath inserted the word "tax". Is this woman so dumb and unprepared that she can't even get a cheat sheet correct?