[Sean]

More Palin brilliance, and more displays of level-headedness from her mob-I mean, her audience...

The governor continued to press the campaign’s message of the day: that Barack Obama and congressional Democrats will, if elected, expand government and redistribute the hard-earned dollars of regular Americans, criticisms that brought on accusatory shouts of “socialist!,” “Communist!” and, at one point, “Hussein the socialist!”

This woman increasingly seems to me to be thinking that she's the poster-girl for the future of the Republican Party. As an independent who still has respect for some Republican ideologies, I sure hope the party doesn't decide to take the Palin route. If they do, then I think we'll be seeing our country spiral into a poisonous, ideological battle that will last for many years and cause nothing but serious problems. Honestly, her brand of Republicanism has me, for the first time in my life, truly frightened of what we may face in a possible future where she's running the show. Realistically though, I have a hard time believing that enough people like her to ever put her in the White House. I hope...