We list five people who brought tears of mirth to our eyes, either through outright stupidity and foolishness or through unintended idiocy -- even flashes of unintended humor.

Without these five clowns, the election would have been much duller.

Head of the clowns has to be Sarah Palin, who with a total lack of self-awareness told ABC's Charles Gibson she didn't blink when asked to be John McCain's running mate.

She then blinked a million times when interviewed by Katie Couric/ Palin showed herself to be the most clueless politician since, well, Jesse Ventura, except he only wanted to be governor of Minnesota.

Dr. James Dobson of Focus on Fear, sorry, Focus on the Family, deserves a special mention for his pathetic hate mail, claiming an Obama presidency would force the Boy Scouts to disband.

THE 5 ELECTION FOOLS

Sarah Palin: "I can see Russia from my house". Tina Fey said it, but Palin was such a clown she could have said it. She rose like the sun, and came crashing to earth like a lead balloon.

Steve Schmidt: McCain's campaign supremo, Bulldog Schmidt, was clueless against Obama. Schmidt has one mode of operation: attack. Did he learn nothing else from Karl Rove.

Jeremiah Wright: A great preacher and good man who didn't know when to be quiet. He kept talking and talking, shooting himself and Obama in the foot. In the end, Obama had to disown him.

Dr. James Dobson : A has-been extremist evangelical who thinks he has his finger on the pulse. Dobson becomes more and more insignificant with each hateful word he utters.

Geraldine Ferraro: The first woman VP candidate was so frustrated by Obama's popularity, she played the race card and fell flat on her face. She had to resign from Hillary's campaign.... Then, Ferraro got all excited about Sarah Palin.