"Free" republic

I had a hilarious experience last night, that led me to a disturbing revelation. I thought I'd troll some of the conservative...er...that's too polite...wacko sites like Free Republic last night and stir up some trouble. (Yes, I am a political masochist...) I should have saved the post, but it was something to the effect of:

Sarah Palin, an inexperienced pork-barrel governor from a small state is not ready to be president, and as a result I have begun to question John McCain's decision making capability. I worry that four years of John McCain will submarine the conservative movement for good.

I totally wrote it from a conservative libertarian perspective - did not even hint at anything positive for Democrats. It was an experiment to be sure, but I'm a good enough writer to assume a voice outside myself.

Not only didn't they approve the posting. They revoked my posting privileges, period. After a single post, which I promise was not inflammatory - very controlled, very calm.

Then I realized... This is what we are up against in the world of Sarah Palin. Disagree, and you're fired, or erased. It's not even hidden in the shadows like it was with Bush and Cheney, under some veil of legitimacy. She'll nakedly do whatever she wants, and if you don't like it, you'll get shouted down, slandered, and ruined forever. Meanwhile, everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie or so misinformed, you wonder what is going through her brain. It's truly amazing. (And heaven forbid, you question her thought process and be elitist...)

If I were really a Ron Paul supporter, which was the direction I intended to go with this "voice", I'd be very very worried, not about John McCain, but about Sarah Palin. She is such a perversion of what it means to be conservative - she's got to be truly galling to someone like a Ron Paul.

For the good of the republic, conservatives and liberals alike, she needs to be stopped in November. Whether you agree with him or not, four years of Obama won't kill us. And if he screws up, we'll have another shot in four years, hopefully by which time Sarah Palin will have crawled back under the rock she came out from. Four years worrying about Sarah Palin taking the oath of office is such an insult to this country, I can not truly describe. Mark my words, while you can still read them.