You know how I think the GOP uses Sarah Palin? They use

[applegrove]

her as the dumb wacko bird that makes what the GOP are up to as more benign. She makes them seem less of a threat. All the while ALEC is out messing up states who then gerrymander and mess up congress.

[Skittles]

1. I thought that was Bachmann

[sibelian]

2. She's a screensaver.

There isn't a word coming out of her mouth that even moves their OWN position forward.

[Bobcat]

3. Palin

Agreed. She is a diversion - a plant - who makes the rest of the GOP pols look and sound "reasonable". She provides "cover" for them.

[LanternWaste]

4. She and a handful of the more outspoken and "entertaining" RW buffoons capture the people's attentio

She and a handful of the more outspoken and "entertaining" RW buffoons capture the people's attention while ALEC and the Koch's use the distraction to capture everything else.

It's pretty damned clever move actually. Slight of hand, illusion, misdirection.