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Andrew has a very perceptive reader.

Part of Sarah Palin’s irresistible appeal to her fundamentalist base is her ability to look at the camera with utter conviction and declare black to be white….

Fundamentalists can recognize a truly audacious and talented liar from miles away. Instead of running the other way, as you might expect, they gather around the powerful liar, for they know that their own lies will be respected and protected by a leader who understands the paramount importance of preserving their whole system of denial.

I came to the conclusion sometime last fall that Republicanism as it exists today, especially in the core rump of fiction that is Palinism, is based entirely on myth, falsity and lies.  Not one single thing in the Republican dogma is true.  Not one.  It is why they watch Fox News, listen to Rush Limbaugh, go to tea parties – the total submersion in falsehood cannot withstand a single iota of truth inserted amongst it, because once that happens, it all comes crashing down pretty fast.

It’s sort of like living in a closet.  Existing by your own choice in a world so defined by lies, and defending those lies with the desperation of a madman, eventually, with certainty, extracts a terrible price.  Republicans are beginning to pay it, and will do so in full I suspect sooner, rather than later.