The Wheels on the Bus Go Square-and-Square

I was gonna let this go.  Let it be a part of a past life.  Stay focused on my studies.  Write my risk analysis of investing in South Africa.  But this video came across my path again tonight and I can't go to bed without exorcising this demon.  It's not new, but it is notable.  The former half-term governor of Alaska and current talking sock puppet, Lambchop, is on a bus tour around American historical sites looking for "real Americans" with whom she can connect.  Sigh.  I guess that's not so wretched by itself, but if you're going to visit a site, at least read a dang book while you're on the bus or something.  I know that asking Lambchop to read is, well, playing gotcha journalism and all.  But still.  There are cameras everywhere, and when you are going to visit Paul Revere's house, they're probably not going to ask you questions about snowmobiling.  So when you ask Lambchop a 'gotcha' question like "What do you think of Paul Revere?" (may or may not be the actual question in this case), you get an answer like this:

 You know, when cattle are grazing, they just don't pay any attention to what they are taking into their bodies and they tend to hoover up bits of barbed wire fence from time to time.  This leads to a tearing of their stomach lining and intestines, and eventually premature death if not treated early enough.  So ranchers have these AA-battery shaped magnets that they force-feed the ailing animal to gather in all the metal bits into one place.  That way, the poor bovine can pass the strands of wire safely out.  The Republican party is the cow, and in pursuing the religious right so hard for so many years to procure a faithful voter bloc, they sucked up some folks that are just plain more interested in hastening the second coming and letting Jesus sort out the mess than actually doing the heavy intellectual work that is required to fix our problems.  And they attend grass roots party meetings like they attend church.  This includes party primaries in which they choose presidential candidates.  For this reason, I think Lambchop is good for Republicans.  She is the magnet that gathers to herself all the idiot mouth-breathers who would vote for an oil can if it believed in God.  And when she loses out on the nomination and goes off to run as an independent, she'll take that steaming mass of faithful folk out into the open air where they can do "real American" stuff, like meth.  And they can skip all of those elitist things like "elections" and "governing" while they wait for other "real Americans" to come pick them up and carry them to victory.  At that point, hopefully, anyone tempted to do so will look and say, "hey, that there is bullshit."