Miss "I Dunno" Strikes Again

Great. Another excuse from the Queen Bee (as in Blissfully Ignornant) herself, Condi Rice:

Ms. Rice pointed out that the election results surprised just about everyone. "I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas's strong showing," she said on her way to London for meetings on the Middle East, Iran and other matters. "Some say that Hamas itself was caught off guard by its strong showing."

So nobody in the CIA, nobody in the State Department, nobody at the Defense Intelligence Agency, nobody in the United States government could possibly fathom that an Islamic Arab country might elect Islamist Arabs to run their government? Nobody? After Islamists won elections in Iraq? Egypt? Lebanon? What do you need, a big placard with giant letters saying
"Um, Hamas might take this"?

Remember, this is the same fountain of misinformation that, a month after the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US" PDB, gave us this:

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

And this is the GOP's dream candidate? In the words of somebody who's name I forget, "Bring it on."