Though she is a national laughingstock to most, Frank Schaeffer reminds us that Palin is also the de facto leader of a scary bunch indeed.

Palin comes from that world of hysterical paranoid delusion. It's her attraction to the people who like her. God has "raised her up for such a time as this" they believe. It is why Fox "News" just hired her as another one of their fair and balanced commentators.

Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of sixteen novels (so far!) represents everything that is most deranged about Palin's religion, and understanding why those books are popular is the key to "getting" the Palin Fox "News" deal...

The Left Behind novels represent the fundamentalist end times view that Palin buys into. They have sold tens of millions of copies while spawning an "End Times" cult, or rather egging it on. Such products as Left Behind wall paper, screen savers, children's books, and video games have become part of the ubiquitous American background noise.

Less innocuous symptoms include people stocking up on assault rifles and ammunition, adopting "Christ-centered" home school curricula, fearing higher education, embracing rumor as fact, and learning to love hatred for the "other," as exemplified by a revived anti-immigrant racism, the murder of doctors who perform legal abortions, and even a killing in the Holocaust Museum.

No, I am not blaming Palin, Jenkins and LaHaye's product line for murder or racism or any other evil intent or result. What I am saying is that feeding the paranoid delusions of people on the fringe of the fringe --- people who think they alone are "Real Americans" --- contributes to a dangerous climate that may provoke violence in a few individuals.

I encourage you to click the title of this post and read the entire article by Mr. Schaeffer. It is very detailed and simply packed full of frightening and sometimes unbelievable facts about Sarah Palin, the teabaggers, and exactly WHO is supporting them.

It is important to note that THESE people are going to support Sarah Palin no matter what kind of evidence is revealed about her illegal or scandalous activities, her hypocrisy, or even the truth behind the children. The people who REALLY support her simply will not hear ANY of it until it is thrust DIRECTLY into their face!

Which is exactly why I am THRILLED that Sarah Palin is on Fox News! You see I know much, but not all, of what is about to be revealed about her, and I can hardly wait to watch her have to deal with it on television! It will play out right in the very living rooms of the dimwitted Fox cable news viewing audience that adores her.

No longer can Sarah hide behind ghostwritten Facebook posts. Now she has to stand out there and face the music on her own. And her true believers will have a front row seat to all of it!

Oh sure Fox will try to protect her as much as they can, but even they will not be able to provide cover for a barrage of negative information like this. And they simply WILL NOT be able to ignore it. It will be everywhere, and if FOX tries to pretend that it is not happening they will reveal themselves to, not be a real news channel, but instead an obvious propaganda machine for Sarah Palin, the teabaggers, and their ilk.

Frank Schaeffer is completely right in telling us that the people who follow Sarah Palin are frightening in their ignorance, so let us see what happens when the negative information about their idol filters into their consciousness from the very place they go to have their ignorance reinforced.

Update: Just to give you a taste of what kinds of things are happening behind the scenes here in Alaska, and on this blog, here is an example of the kinds of things that show up in my e-mail every single day. (This example was posted on a conservative blog.) I have had a number of new sources come forward and have become privvy to a lot of crazy information. I am sorry if things are not happening at the pace to satisfy some of you, but I also must point out that we have already seen quite a lot of damaging information revealed.

A guest editorial over at BradBlog by Frank Shaeffer may calm the fears of those who have lost confidence in President Obama.

Obama's steady supporters will be proven right. Obama's critics will be remembered as easily panicked and prematurely discouraged at best and shriveled hate mongers at worst...

Not since the days of the rise of fascism in Europe, the Second World War and the Depression has any president faced more adversity. Not since the Civil War has any President led a more bitterly divided country. Not since the introduction of racial integration has any President faced a more consistently short-sighted and willfully ignorant opposition - from both the Right and Left.

Here is what Obama faced when he took office-- none of which was his fault:

• An ideologically divided country to the point that America was really two countries
  
• Two wars; one that was mishandled from the start, the other that was unnecessary and immoral
  
• The worst economic crisis since the depression
  
• America's standing in the world at the lowest point in history
  
• A country that had been misled into accepting the use of torture of prisoners of war
  
• A health care system in free fall
  
• An educational system in free fall
  
• A global environmental crisis of history-altering proportions (about which the Bush administration and the Republicans had done nothing)
  
• An impasse between culture warriors from the Right and Left
  
• A huge financial deficit inherited from the terminally irresponsible Bush administration…

To read the rest of Schaeffer's thought provoking editorial just click the title. It may not put all of your worries to rest, but it certainly puts thing back into perspective.