Luckily Not in Charge of Anything: Sarah Palin

I know. Has it really been a whole minute since the last time anyone paid her any mind? But fine--she baits us, we nibble. It's a vicious cycle:

"Do you know why those clownish little Kumbaya-humming fairytale-inhaling liberals want to be tough all of a sudden and control your guns?” she said. “It’s ‘cuz guys like [Sen.] Al Franken [D-Minn.] and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid [D-Nev.], they are not satisfied with just taking your money and your job, your truck and your property and your rights, your healthcare – they didn’t want to just stop at that.”

Sticks and stones and AR-15's, Sarah.  But in reality, there have actually been zero laws passed lately that restrict guns. And I don't know who is taking anybody's truck. Maybe she forgot where she parked it?

But the part that is supposed to make the ACLU card-carrying bunny huggers flip our shit is this:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) defended the controversial enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding this weekend, and implied that the practice would still be commonplace “if I were in charge.” 

“They obviously have information on plots to carry out Jihad,” she said at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting on Saturday evening, referring to prisoners. "Oh, but you can’t offend them, can’t make them feel uncomfortable, not even a smidgen. Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”

Sure, you can make people uncomfortable. But not torture them. Treaties and all that.  Also, it isn't obvious that "they" have information on plots to carry out jihad, because sometimes we pick up the wrong guys.

But I absolutely agree that waterboarding is one way to baptize terrorists. It's just that, when you waterboard people, you just so happen to convert others to terrorism, elsewhere.  
I know she does it to shock but still...