Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places...

Reading through my blogs this morning I came upon a comment made in reference to Jack Cafferty's question "Who cares about Sarah Palin" and just had to repost it because it is blindingly simple and dead-on accurate.  My apologies for not being able to provide due credit to the original commenter:

There are two reasons: 1) She’s attractive. For better or for worse, people listen when pretty girls talk, no matter what nonsense may come out of their mouths. 2) Incompetence, by itself, is not entertaining. However, when the incompetent are supremely self-confident, full of certitude, and absent of insight, it’s absolutely compelling.