A half century ago, historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a seminal book entitled, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics' which traced the ongoing examples in our nation's history of paranoia engulfing public opinion and leading to the Tea Party outbursts we currently are witnessing. Sarah Palin is simply a new example of frightening the population with tales of "those people" trying to take over "our country." Palin plays to the rustic mythology of America which functions on the proposition that those raised in rural areas of the nation have not been contaminated by the large city "foreign influences" that corrupt our youth and destroy the moral fabric of our nation. If Sarah had been around in the sixties she would be leading the fight to cut hair of any boy who had the audacity to wear his hair long or in a pony tail. Of course, today, the rustic male folk wander around high on marijuana and twirling their pony tails. Isn't it quaint that a woman who wants childen to "just say no" to sex prior to marriage has a young mother on her hand and Mom Sarah has banned the father from seeing his child. I assume this is simply upholding moral standards.