The problem with Sarah Palin

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Not everyone is enthusiastic about the rise in popularity of Sarah Palin. I didn’t vote for her when I had the chance, and nothing has happened since November 2008 that would lead me to change my mind.

Leslie Carbone, author of the recently-published Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform says it better than I can myself:

With the popular outrage sparked by the Bush bail-outs, I’ve become more hopeful about the future of economic freedom than I’d been in 20 years. And the tea parties and town-hall protests just buttressed my optimism.

I’m still optimistic, but the reflexive, relativistic, populism-as-the-new-elitism near-worship showered upon Gov. Palin by supposed conservatives and libertarians — people who profess to believe in economic freedom — tempers my optimism.

The full post is The Problem with Palin.