(Update: Shout out to rememberancientweb as well, who diaried this first)

Well, I suppose it was inevitable.  Where there are teabaggers, there's gotta be a hand job.

This a video from the teabagger convention, where she was the queen teabagger.  Or keynoter. Something like that.

Check it out:

Okay, now look at the close-up shot from AP:

Seriously?  THIS is the person that John McCain thought should be one tenuous heartbeat away from the presidency?  THIS is the person that teabaggers everywhere are looking to for a leader in 2012?  

Wow. So much stupidity, so little time...

(Hat tip to Eileen B over at Daily Kos for this)