Responding to a question about why Republicans lost the 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin suggests that they might have won had *she* (not McCain) been “at the top of the ticket.”

(See Daily Kos for more.)

(HT: Unreasonable Faith, “Sarah Palin Battle Hymn”)

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Ms. Giffords was also among a group of embattled Democratic House candidates who were featured on the Web site of Sarah Palin’s political action committee with cross hairs over their districts, a fact that disturbed Ms. Giffords at the time.

“We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list,” Ms. Giffords said last March. “But the thing is the way that she has it depicted has the cross hairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize there’s consequences to that.”

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In case you’ve forgotten the context, here’s a description courtesy of Political Humor Blog:

Sarah Palin appeared at a Wasilla turkey farm to engage in the time-honored practice of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving.

Everything went fine, until she gave an interview afterward. That’s when a worker in the background shoved a couple of turkeys neck-first into a death grinder while Palin yammered on, seemingly oblivious to the carnage unfolding behind her.

By the way, why is this woman still in the news?  On news-opinion programs today, the talk was about Sarah’s newly-released book and what it could mean for her 2010 2012 (thanks Daryl) presidential run.  All I could think was,