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On his epic 1976 album (kids, ask your parents) Desire, Bob Dylan closes the album with the haunting ballad Sara. The chorus is: “Sara, oh Sara, so easy to look at, so hard to define.” I can’t help but think of our own Sarah, Sarah Palin, whom I’ll admit, is easy to look at, but I’ll take a stab at defining her: ambitious numbskull.

Once again, Sister Sarah was in the news recently for tweeting that “Peaceful Muslims” should “refudiate” (my spell check is going to be working overtime in this one) the building of a mosque near the Ground Zero site. Presumably, she meant “repudiate” or “refute.” Okay, she made a mistake. It happens. We all make mistakes.

After much mocking from the left, instead of acknowledging her mistake she gave the left more ammunition by digging in her heels and defending the remark.

“Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up,’” “English is a living language” was her follow up tweet (although English might want to commit suicide when she gets through with it). I’ll give her that she meant “repudiate” and that she was quoting George W. Bush’s “misunderestimate,” but what the hell she was trying to communicate with “wee-wee’d up” is beyond me. Is that her version of “effed up”?

Indeed, new words do get made up now and then. A dictionary from ten years ago wouldn’t have contained the word “tweet.” However, that word was coined to define a new invention, the ‘tweet.” Sister Sarah seems to have created a new word because she felt like it. She noted that “Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”

So, Sarah Palin is the new William Shakespeare?

I fear what she might do to The Bard’s epic words.

“To be or maybe ought not to be”

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow! But for $100,000 I’ll come back again!”

“O Romeo, Romeo. Where the heck ya been, Romeo?”

“What’s in a name? Whatever I say is!”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Okay, I can see her saying that.

“Alas, poor Yorick. He was killed by Obama’s Death Panel.”

Yes, how can we forget the government-run “Death Panel.” She worried that “my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome (she has no problem using her kids for political purposes when it suits her) will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society.” Well, despite the high unemployment rate, I don’t think anybody will be able to apply any time soon for a job on the government “Death Panel.”

Indeed, had anyone actually proposed such a thing, it would have been horrendous but of course, nobody ever was proposing this.

She not only makes up words, though. She actually has created a new government agency. In an interview with ABC News, she stated that there was a “Department of Law at The White House.”

She claims to be against Big Govenrment, yet with that statement she single handedly created a new bureaucracy because the is no such agency as “The Department of Law.”

Had she become vice president, she might have gotten quite lost in the White House wandering around looking for the “Department of Law.”

I’m sure White House staffers would’ve had fun with that one.

“Ah, yes, Madame Vice President. It’s down the hall, next the Death Panel room.”

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation," Palin told a crowd at a fundraiser.

There you go. If your from the city, your not a real American and apparently can’t be patriotic. Sorry, George Washington. Sorry, Thomas Jefferson. Sorry, Abe Lincoln. You weren’t in the real America, you were in Washington, D.C. and thus, probably weren’t real Americans.

No doubt, she will run for the presidency in 2012. Her election, though possible but unlikely, would be a disaster, should it occur. However, it would certainly be a boon to the world of comedy. As legendary humorist Will Rogers noted:

“It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.”

That is a statement that I can’t refudiate.