The nitwit and wisdom of Sarah Palin

In addition to talking like the the Valley Girl stereotype of the 1980s (liberal use of the phrases "bogus" and "awesome" and perhaps "awesomely bogus") Sarah Palin is big on bringing up stories straight out of your spam-folder:

Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

“Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?”

She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”

Unsaid but implied was that the new Democratic White House was behind such a move to secularize the nation’s currency.

But the new coins – concerns over which apparently stemmed from an email chain letter widely circulated among conservatives – were commissioned by the Republican-led Congress in 2005 and approved by President Bush.

Whoops -- somehow that's not what Glenn Beck said. But hey, at least she's popular:

Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning believe the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee is not qualified to be president

It's an old poll, but maybe when she's on with Oprah the two of them can compare notes:

If talk show queen Oprah Winfrey ran for U.S. president against George W. Bush she would win with 65 percent of the vote, according to a survey.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]