Will the Tea Party Movement Drown in a Giant Mug O' Stupid?

Since being named running mate to John McCain, Sarah Palin has regaled us with one Palinistic display of downright dumbness after another. She can see Russia from her house, and Alaska touches Canada, so we should vote for her.

Palin has cemented herself with her base as some sort of goddess of perpetual ignorance, and she is worshiped as such. Her bona fides are too numerous and too well known to list here. It's safe to say anyone who knows the name Palin either loves her, dislikes her, or can't understand her and her appeal.

Now we have Michele Bachmann chomping at the heels of Sarah Palin, out to prove she deserves the title as the dumbest person ever to consider running for president. Bachmann's fans are nearly as rabid as Palin's, and possibly even more in awe of their star.

Chris Matthews has been going after Bachmann of late, calling her a "balloon head" and regularly featuring the stupidity of Bachmann on "Hardball." He wonders, as I do, how anyone could possibly even imagine Michele Bachmann is in any way qualified to run for public office.

Right behind the most visible ladies of the right wing meme wherein ignorance is indeed bliss and a profound misunderstanding of history is celebrated come the Storm Troopers of Stupidity - the Fox News pundits.

Glenn Beck calls Chris Matthews old and irrelevant for calling Bachmann a balloon head, going straight for the ad hominem over actually addressing Bachmann's ignorance. When the Congresswoman from Minnesota said the venerated Founding Fathers ended slavery, she dismissed almost a century of American history.

Sean Hannity virtually genuflects to both women when they come on his show, throwing them such slow-speed softballs that they defy gravity in flight. His drooling mannerisms further add to the laughable nature of his interviews.

Ill-informed Tea Party pundits pop up on news outlets and defend the indefensible ramblings put out by Palin, Bachmann, and other Tea Party faves. There seems to be an almost willful attempt to disregard knowledge. facts, learning, and intellectual curiosity.

Tea Party faithful relish the lack of knowledge leaders of the movement possess. It's no wonder, most of them deny not only the science of global warming, but also the science of evolution and basic physics. It's always a bad sign when a group of people ignore fact, no matter how much they have to stretch to do so.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann may well end up on a presidential ticket for 2012, separately or together. Barack Obama, at least at this point, has to be a favorite to win again. Republicans aren't likely to risk a candidate with a real chance of winning, and are likely to throw up the proverbial sacrificial lamb.

Because one thing is fairly certain - if either of them run, they will have almost no chance of winning. The powers in the Republican Party were happy to use the Tea Party people this past election, and are likely to do it again. What they don't want, however, is for any of them to have real power.

The end result of that game may turn out to be a rendering helpless of the Tea Party Movement. It just might drown in a big giant mug o' stupid. When the happens, the country will be the winner.