In your internal list of random political dramas that nobody really cares about but have implications anyway, feel free to add this one: Sarah Palin apparently no longer likes fellow crazy person Christine O'Donnell (of "I am not a witch" fame).
Why does this matter? Because bickering over it is really fouling up a major Tea Party of America rally in Iowa this weekend, making everyone involved look petty, incompetent, or both.
First Sarah Palin was scheduled to attend the Tea Party of America's Iowa rally this weekend. Then Christine O'Donnell was invited. Then Christine O'Donnell was uninvited. Then she was re-invited. Now Palin is out. Maybe.
Easy to follow, right? According to the Wall Street Journal, Palin will not share the stage with O'Donnell, who she famously endorsed in 2010, because the ex-governor is sick of "continual lying" by the event's organizers.
Now O'Donnell has been uninvited, again (she was uninvited once because even other tea partiers were complaining about the invite, but then re-invited, so this is now the second un-invitation). And maybe Palin will now be showing up again, but it's still not confirmed.
Event organizers are being almost goofily circumspect about what's going on, but every indication is that Palin just doesn't want to be seen with O'Donnell:
Crow said two of [Palin's latest] requests were logistical details: Email a copy of the program today, and address concerns about back-stage security and who will be allowed in that area.
Asked about the third request, Crow said: “Can I let that remain private for now?”
Meanwhile, Crow telephoned staff for O’Donnell, a Delaware Republican who ran for the U.S. Senate, to say she can’t speak at Saturday’s event.
“We’re all friends and she’s not coming,” he said, referring to O’Donnell.
Does Palin loathe O'Donnell, after once endorsing her? And if so, why? Wow ... I really don't care even one little bit. It is nice, however, to see the tea party and their heroes keeping up their usual dysfunctional patterns. To think: These people actually insist they know how to run our government.