Sarah Palin stepped in a big, steaming pile of twit this week when she made an inflammatory anti-Muslim remark on Twitter, stirring up a hornet's nest of opposition to her radically ignorant perspective. The tweet centered on the planned construction of an Islamic mosque near New York's "Ground Zero," the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Regarding the mosque, Palin tweeted Sunday, "Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing."

Palin's tweets are despicable for any number of reasons, but let's take a moment to try and number them.

For starters, her use of the phrase, "Peace-seeking Muslims," implies that Muslims seeking peace are somehow different from normal Muslims. It's the same tone of voice we'd expect her to use when saying something like "self-empowered black women." It says, however indirectly, that peace-seeking Muslims are so outside the normal range of expectation that they should be explicitly mentioned as such.

Or how about "Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation" part? For one thing, there is no "Ground Zero mosque." There is a mosque being built near Ground Zero, but then again, plenty of stuff is near Ground Zero - it's kind of in the middle of everything which was the point. And it's not "UNNECESSARY provocation." It is, in fact, a mosque. Not UNNECESSARY provocation. And the last time I checked, Americans (yes, Muslims can be Americans too) have the right to build a mosque just about anywhere that they're legally zoned to do so - and that includes the site of the proposed mosque.

This latest tweet proves once again two basic fundamental principles that sane-minded Americans have known for a long time: 1) Sarah Palin is utterly unsuited to run anything ranging from the White House to the State of Alaska to the Boston Marathon, and 2) Sarah Palin has absolutely no freakin' idea how to leverage social networking to do anything but piss people off and make herself look even more psychotic than she already does, which is actually pretty difficult to pull off considering the crazy crap she's said in the past.

Her tweets Sunday sparked a massive trend of anti-Palin and anti-TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter) trends as the news of her tweet spread around the internet. Rational, thinking people, both "peace-seeking Muslims" and otherwise, rejected the one-time presidential candidates remarks as "offensive" and "ignorant," and news of the tweets made national headlines in both liberal and conservative publications.

This isn't the first time that Palin has made a fool of herself on Twitter - the former Alaska governor has a long, rich history of making inflammatory and otherwise ignorant comments on the microblogging platform; one can safely assume that following her is guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment, although almost certainly likely to reduce brain cells. Just two hours after tweeting her anti-Islamic remarks, Palin compared herself to Shakespeare after being called out for using the word "refudiate," which doesn't exist in the English language. "Shakespeare liked to coin new words too," she tweeted.

That's true, although Shakespeare typically did it intentionally, not because he was an uneducated idiot. The Bard is remembered centuries after his death; Palin and her Twitter account will hopefully become a distant memory long before then.