Sometime back, someone used the phrase “the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance” to describe the values of the people that the Palin candidacy appealed to. For me, that does a fairly good job of describing the Republican Party as a whole. There are, to be sure, exceptions. But that is what lies at its political core.  And as Lawrence O’Donnell argues below, it’s those sort of political values that can almost deliver the Vice Presidency to someone like Sarah Palin:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_e4yTQpg8[/youtube]
They’re laughing, but it’s not funny.