First Posted: 03- 8-10 09:27 AM   |   Updated: 03- 8-10 11:49 AM

Sarah Palin came up with a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes over the weekend: God did it, too.

When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs on her hand to remember them, “I didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — is me,” Palin quipped at an Ohio Right to Life fundraiser Friday. “But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I’ll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m in good company.’”

The Bible doesn’t mention permanent marker, of course; the line Palin referred to, “Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands,” features “writing” that is significantly more permanent.

Before invoking God, Palin tried to explain away the hand notes by calling them “a poor man’s teleprompter.” Earlier in her speech before Ohio Right to Life, she claimed that she really got the idea from her schoolteacher father, who she said would “read the palm of his hand to see what, you know, was on tap first for the curriculum the next day.”

Palin repeated the God story in Calgary on Saturday, after Canadian Sen. Pamela Wallin joked about her hand notes during a question-and-answer session. According to the National Post, one audience member yelled out, “Atta girl!”

In the Post’s telling, Palin’s Calgary speech sounded a lot like self-parody, though she might just be taking her stand-up in a new direction:

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