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Palin’s a big girl. I expect a bit of playground taunting will roll off her back.

But who cares?

Seriously, I’ve seen maybe three or four folks asking what Palin really stands for.

Billy Beck, of course, is one of them:

Nothing in the ground up there belonged — or belongs — to “Alaska” except by arbitrary claim of the sort that kings would have asserted before the rise of rational politics that eventually instituted America as the first nation consciously and deliberately attendant to principles of individualism, in which free people could thumb their noses at such a claim and then go to work at production on their own powers.

I’m warning you people: if you’re interested in freedom, Sarah Palin is not your friend. Get this through your head: no matter how awful an Obama presidency could be, you need to be looking at this Palin thing a lot more carefully than people like Bennett would like you to.

In a sane world, McCain and Palin would be laughed off the national stage as socialist radicals. We’ve gone so far off track, they look like stodgy conservatives, and otherwise intelligent, informed folk of good will are allowing themselves to be distracted by lipstick smears.

Beck calls it The Endarkenment.

Understand, I’m still not to the point where I’m going to stand outside my polling place on Election Day, holding a sign telling people not to agree to tyranny, while handing out pro-gun and pro-jury-annulment flyers. I still think that McCain-Palin, bad as they are, represent a much slower slide into the pit, with fewer razor blades along the way, and maybe even some escape hatches, than Obama does.

But damn, Beck gets harder to argue with every day.