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I love Sarah Palin.  And I love how her supporters are just as bat shit crazy as she is.  She resigns today, for who the hell knows why - nothing she does is ever recognizable as normal human behavior.  But she will run for president.  And she will destroy the Republican Party as she does so.  And for this, I will be thankful to her for as long as I live.

And it will be a wonderful footnote in American history that her political carcass lies in the wake of Barack Obama.

I know the enemy.  Bet you do, too.  Crank this shit up.

I’ve had a few people ask me if I was going to today’s tea party in Cleveland.  Who knows?  Given that one of my tea party videos has been on Rachel Maddow twice, and I’m kinda world famous for the McCain Palin Mob videos, it would seem like a no brainer.  These people are comedy gold, there for the taking.

The problem is, they are also the most foul group of miscreants you would ever want to be around.  Hell, one of ‘em shot up the Holocaust Museum.  If these folks somehow managed to be at a party in your backyard for any length of time, you’d start to lock up your possessions, hide your dog, warn your other guests to keep a good distance….and that’s before they took over your place with a rant of paranoia so wild the neighbors start calling 911.

Which brings me to a story.

At a bar in Tremont before the April 15 tea parties, I met a nice lady, a regular, who has since become a friend, who shall remain nameless.  As we’re getting acquainted, the bar fills up, and I overheard her saying she “might” go to the tea party tomorrow!

My ears perked up, I looked across the bar at her, and I said…”umm….WHAT?”  She mentioned she heard about it, blah blah, and I stopped her.

I said, “Lady, I just met you, you seem like a nice person, so I’m warning you right now.  You DO NOT want to go to the tea party.”

She was a bit taken aback.  ”Why not?”

I said, “Because if you are there, and I run into you with my video camera, I am going to make a total fool of you.”

Needless to say, this caused a bit of a pause amongst the folks at the bar.  She responded, “Umm….what do you mean?”

I said, “Trust me, I’m doing you a big favor here.  I like you, you seem smarter than that, and I just wanted to warn you.  If you are there, you will be made a fool of.  That’s just a fact.”

So time passes, media coverage ensues, my tea party vid gets on cable news, people in Tremont start hearing about my exploits.  The other night, this story came up again at the bar, and she was laughing her ass off.

Apparently, I had a stern look when I gave the warning.  ”That look on your face….I knew I wasn’t goin’ after that!”  She regaled the entire bar about the time we first met, and about my stern warning, and she was like, “And boy am I glad I didn’t go!”  At which point she thanked me profusely for doing her the favor.  I think she’ll tell that story for a long time.

So If I do go today, I’m gonna have to get creative.  Now that they’ve been made utter fools of, repeatedly, on a national level, their paranoia extends to anyone with a camera.  Which means that if you hold a camera at one of these things, they ask you if you are with the FBI, CIA, “are you one of those Obama people?”, that sorta thing.  Then they follow you around, taking notes, as if to document that they are being spied on by the evil gubment.  (Wait’ll they find out the KGB actually does have a file on me….horror!)  Then they yell and scream in order to shout over whoever you are interviewing.  It’s all become a bit annoying.

However, if you manage to withstand all that paranoia, they will still happily offer you an unending stream of lunacy straight from their mouths and onto tape.  When you know there is gold to be had, if you just press record, no matter how it plays out, tough to resist.

So stay tuned.

Fuck you, Connie.