“The big lecture buyers in the US are paralyzed with fear about booking her, basically because they think she is a blithering idiot.”
—Lecture circuit expert on why Sarah Palin is having trouble being booked for speaking engagements
And yet she's a frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2012. I don't think it can be repeated too often: the Republicans are leaning towards nominating an blithering idiot in 2012.