She is undaunted....

Honestly, sometimes when I see or hear her, I feel like I've been transported back to an old episode of Laugh-In, and she's trying to be an evil version of Goldie Hawn.

I guess that's what I sense from her.  That underneath the perfectly-lipsticked smile and the folksy winking, and the naughty monkey peep-toe pumps is someone so essentially toxic she should come with a hazmat warning label.  That she so obviously likes and seeks controversy, not unlike the odious Ann Coulter - who has been strangely silent on the Tucson shootings - eyes gleaming in satisfaction at the people she's riled up, is just utterly repulsive to me.

She's not going away anytime soon, that's for sure - she's having too good a time, making too much money.  

If I had one suggestion, it might be that if ignoring her is the best way to make people stop talking about her, TL might want to consider not front-paging posts about her, because even if those posts are uniformly critical, it's still attention, and it keeps her name front and center.

But of course, Sarah Palin has to put out a ridiculous video, before President Obama's speech, that focuses not on the victims but on the attacks on her.  And of course, Palin's video contains completely bizarre sections such as:

There are those who claim political rhetoric is to blame for the despicable act of this deranged, apparently apolitical criminal. And they claim political debate has somehow gotten more heated just recently. But when was it less heated? Back in those "calm days" when political figures literally settled their differences with dueling pistols? In an ideal world all discourse would be civil and all disagreements cordial. But our Founding Fathers knew they weren't designing a system for perfect men and women. If men and women were angels, there would be no need for government. Our Founders' genius was to design a system that helped settle the inevitable conflicts caused by our imperfect passions in civil ways. So, we must condemn violence if our Republic is to endure.

and

"We know violence isn't the answer. When we `take up our arms', we're talking about our vote."

1. "Acts of monstrous criminalit­y stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them."

2. "Especiall­y within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journal­ists and pundits should not manufactur­e a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn."

The term "blood libel" has taken on a broad metaphorical meaning in public discourse. Although its historical origins were in theologically based false accusations against the Jews and the Jewish People,its current usage is far broader. I myself have used it to describe false accusations against the State of Israel by the Goldstone Report.