Sarah Palin got better than she gave when she recently attacked U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Orlando). The representative was a prime target of the GOP even before a recent poll showed that 29% of the registered Republicans in his district support him, despite the fact that he’s a Democrat. Palin made Grayson the centerpiece of her fundraising speech at the Central Florida Lincoln Day dinner:

Piper is with me tonight, so I won’t say anything about Alan Grayson that can’t be said around children. But thank you, Florida, for allowing candidates in a contested primary to duke it out over ideas and principles and values, all with the same goal, and that is unseating those who have such a disconnect from the people of America. That’s what the goal is here in this race against Alan Grayson. Please fight hard, and do this for the rest of the country. Fight hard, and send a conservative to Washington, DC.”

What Palin might not know about the race is that of Grayson’s 13 opponents on the GOP side, not one is seen as viable. All the people anyone ever heard of have dropped out of the primary contest for one reason or another.

And speaking of what Palin doesn’t know about Central Florida politics, Grayson responded quickly to Palin’s attack, letting loose a stream of one-liners that would be the envy of the writers for David Letterman’s show. “I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them,” Grayson said. His press release called Palin “the former half-term Governor” and noted that at the event, she wore clothes she paid for herself. It didn’t stop there.