I think she's actually a little scarier than either one of them because I think she really is a religious fanatic. I think Bush was a believer in a tooth-fairyish sort of way and Cheney's sole interest in religion is as a tool for suckering the rubes into voting against their own interests but Palin's an actual crusading nutjob who'd probably be delighted to institute a modern-day Inquisition to bring back them "old fashioned values." And when someone's that much of a fanatic, there is literally no wrongdoing that they cannot justify to themselves as being part of "God's plan," whether it's firing a smalltown librarian or forcing rape victims to bear children or pushing the fucking button in hopes of bringing Jesus back. HOLY shit.
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