This is what 8 dolts look like:

From a Palin rally in Bangor, Maine, also courtesy of our friends at the New York Times, atop an article titled “Among Rock-Ribbed Fans of Palin, Dudes Rule.”

According to the article, the Alaskan GILF’s most ardent fan base are white, male knuckleheads who like body paint (see photo, above), beer and voting with their dicks.

I promised myself I wouldn’t give this honking lipsticked hyena any more unearned exposure than she already was enjoying, but this photo, coupled with her stiff, awkward appearance tonight on “Saturday Night Live,” pushed me over the edge. What harm are a couple more paragraphs of snark from me going to do?

Getting back to Sarah’s new BFFs:

Usually stupid people resent being talked down to – they pick up on it right away and are sensitive as hell about it – but apparently different rules apply when they’re being talked down to by one of their own. Or by somebody, you know, they’d like to fuck. Who knew how much the mouth-breathing masses would enjoy hearing their ugliest prejudices and most baseless fears bleated back at them in the sing-song cadence of a kindergarten teacher admonishing her charges not to eat bubblegum off the sidewalk?

A kindergarten teacher they’d like to fuck, of course.

Reasoned deep-thinker and former truck driver Larry Hawkins to the Times reporter, “They bear us children, they risk their lives to give us birth, so maybe it’s time we let a woman lead us.” As long as she’s someone we can masturbate to, he added to himself.

That is one hell of a brand of patriotism they practice in the ‘pro-America’ hinterlands.