Shown: Saks Thrift Ave Consignment shop in Anchorage.

Far from being a unifying force in the Republican Party, Palin has turned out to be a divider, and she seems to be relishing the role.

By Maui Curmudgeon
CNN reports that Palin has caused a rift in the party. Some believe she has lead the party astray and will continue to do so. Others like her mantra – anti-choice, racist, and a serious dearth of both intelligence and ideas – in short, what the Reagan Bush years have served up.

It’s one thing not to have foreign policy experience, it’s quite another to lack common sense.

In between trying to sell Barack Obama as a socialist in Shippensburg, PA, and professing to love a freezing drizzle in Fredericksburgh, VA (“I love this weather; it reminds me of home.”) Palin managed to visit with the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Sallai Meridor, to whom she said, “We look forward to working with your Jewish agency.” The Israeli nation is…an agency?

Later that same day, Arizona’s other senator, Jon Kyl, said that “I think John McCain might be added to that long list of Arizonans who ran for president but were never elected”. Ouch.

Palin’s exclamation point to the end of the day was to bring up her rich clothes again – when nobody asked her. “I’m not taking them with me. I’m back to wearing my old clothes from my favorite consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska.”

Here’s hoping she gets to shop there locally real soon.