You folks are really interesting. Its almost comical how afraid you are of Sarah Palin. Yet you dont fear, (or are too ignorant to fear, and/or uninformed, and/or demented, and/or substance abused or just mentally twisted) to fear a quite more dangerous person. Im not a McCain or Palin fan, but compared to the other choice,they are great.

This Sunday night, October 12, 2008, at 8:00pm or 9:00pm, FOX cable news' Sean Hannity's entire show is devoted to Hannity's airing discovery of background information on the (D) Presidential candidate that has not been previously aired by the Media. This show features information that is relevant to this 2008 Presidential election and helpful to all U.S. voting citizens in choosing which Presidential candidate is best qualified to protect and serve the best interests, safety, and welfare of our USA and "ALL" of its citizens.

GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!

The article implies that Palin's support for a state constitutional amendment forbidding local governments to infringe on an individual right to bear arms took place after the 1997 Wasilla dustup over bearing arms into public places. However, that constitutional amendment passed in 1994. Palin may have been for it, and she was on the Wasilla City Council at the time, but she wasn't for it in 1994 because Carney had tried to keep people from bearing arms into public places in 1997.

Mark Regan

Juneau, Alaska

I find it highly frustrating that the mainstream media will not pick up on this story. Everytime I hear Palin or a McCain surrogate talk about the fact that they believe Ayers is a valid argument, I don't understand why they aren't asked in response, "if Ayers is not off limits, is Sarah Palin's known relationship with the Alaska Independence Party also not off limits? Shouldn't we also be talking about her associations?"

Why is it that no one will ask the question? What is the mainstream media afraid of?

If the Supreme Court came out tommorow with a decision outlawing abortion, and all who have had or performed abortion were subject to prosecution for murder (there's no statute of limitations on murder), would Salonistas advocate secession? Yes, of course. So, despite the proliferation of articles describing the problems of Sarah Palin, from the wrong bathroom color scheme, to her possible terrorist hair style, the only thing they care about is having affairs and killing the evidence that would never otherwise go away in their lifetime -- abortion.

Alaska,

Perhaps the best thing would be for you and your Governor Palin to proceed with succession; the rest of America would be better off without you and you would be better off tending to the Russian's on your own without us.

I appreciate your attempts to "see through" the internet to tell me who I am ~ you're as elitists and manipulative as the rest of your Party and your Christian brethren. I din't live through the Holocaust, as you know, that distinction is rightfully reserved for those who perished or survived the persecution.

Please tell then, since your wisdom exceeds all others, what does one call the radical Right? Friends? Democrats? Benevolent Protectors? Fair and Balanced?

By the way, why would someone so intelligent be hovering around a site dedicated to the Left?

You continue to refer to Jonah Goldberg's book, "Liberal Fascism," as if it is a serious study of fascism. It is not. Goldberg is neither a historian nor a scholar of fascism and the Holocaust. He is merely the son of the professional conservative propagandist Lucianne Goldberg, who used her connections to get Jonah a similar job.

True historians and scholars have debunked Goldberg's book and consider it nothing more than nonsense. For you to rely on his book in your analysis of fascism is about as compelling as me relying on X-Men comic books for an analysis of genetics.

Patriotism, The ultimate form of control.

It's a historical fact, Fascism and patriotism always go hand

in hand

Berlin1929, if you lived through the Holocaust as you say, we all deeply respect your experience. But I have my doubts you are who you say you are. In this forum, it's more likely that you are a typically dishonest Leftist, born much later and in the U.S., playing a role in order to try to make a point. I am not buying it.

Whatever., I absolutely disagree with your position. If you stand for tolerance, you should tolerate my right to do that. Jonah Goldberg showed beautifully in his book "Liberal Fascism" not that liberalism is inherently fascistic, but that fascism was borne of socialism, a mild form of which is associated with what is now called "liberalism" in the United States. The fascists of Italy were essentially a splinter group of the Left. The Nazis were the National Socialists and, again, shared in the background of the Left.

Again, please get clear on this, as Goldberg argued at great and very plausible length, the fascists were a splinter group of the Left which is now misdescribed as "liberal." It's not that the fascists were known and celebrated as communists, which would of course be absurd. They deliberately set themselves against the Communists, especially in Russia, and the Russians reacted especially harshly to them. So the big ideological division was for a long time said to be between Left Communism and Right Fascism. And conservatism is on the right, isn't it? So isn't it fascistic, a little?

But in fact, communism and fascism are both aspects of the totalitarian left, a left that wants to control every aspect of our lives, by nationalizing industry or by centrally directing industry, by shutting down religious influence in life (the fascists were deeply atheist), by celebrating Nature over morality, and so forth. The great enemies of both communism and fascism are independent, profit-making enterprise and independent, self-directing people. Ever wonder why anti-Israeli, anti-Semitic bigotry is now strongest on the Left, even among self-hating Jews like Chomsky, and why U.S. conservatives are strong allies of Israel? Wake uuuup. Basically, mid-century fascism vs. communism was a factional warfare on the left. Leftists don't want people to understand this, for obvious reasons, but it's true.

There can be no such thing as totalitarian conservatism, because conservatism is about limited government. Totalitarianism is a phenomenon of the left.

If Fascism comes to America, it will resemble the intolerant, politically correct Left that populates college faculty PC committees. It will pretend, as Salon is attempting now, that perfectly harmless, solid, old-fashioned, conservative people like Sarah Palin are actually the dangerous radicals.

The Left is deeply and of necessity misleading, game-playing, dishonest,,, If you have not yet realized this, wake up.