GOP: Stuck on Stupid?

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Political candidates often make gaffes, or mistakes, on the campaign trail, which is understandable as they are, in fact, human. However, lately many Republicans have gone from making simple gaffes to saying things that are outright ridiculous.

When speaking of the ridiculous, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin seems to be a great place to start. She is currently on a Sarah PAC "One Nation" bus tour on the East Coast visiting historical spots. In Boston, visiting sights along the Freedom Trail, a reporter asked her about what she had seen that day. She responded that she had seen the early home of Paul Revere and then went on to stunning historical inaccuracies. According to Palin, Revere "who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed." She later doubled down on that falsehood when called out by Fox News's Chris Wallace, stating that she knows her American history.

This isn't the first time (or likely, the last) that Palin has been (extremely) factually inaccurate. Back in January, Palin attacked President Obama's State of the Union address on Fox's "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren. Taking issue with Obama's use of the phrase "Sputnik moment," Palin went on a tirade, calling it "one of those WTF moments," stating that Sputnik, launched by the USSR in 1957, caused the USSR to go massively into debt and collapse, and inquiring as to why Obama would want to follow that path. In fact, the USSR survived another 38 years following the launch of the satellite. Besides wondering if Palin knows the meaning of "WTF," it would be nice to know where she took sixth grade history.

Not to be outdone, Congresswoman and Tea Party Caucus founder Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., has a few historical inaccuracies of her own. Bill Maher, on his HBO show "Real Time with Bill Maher" sarcastically endorsed her saying she is "for those who think that Sarah Palin is too intellectual."

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