The creature that is now stalking the countryside, laying waste the political landscape and terrifying its citizens, we learn today, is the result of a horrific experiment in human cloning gone disastrously wrong. The creation of which I speak has been named Sarah Palin by her "creator", Karl Rove.

Rove has attempted to create a new and more destructive version of his original experiment that we call George W. Bush. This time around, Dr. Rove has added more diverse and demonic elements to his sulfurous admixture of disparate DNA molecules. Starting with some elements from his original creation, Bush, including its predilection for irrational thought and egomania, Rove has culled new elements from the morally, spiritually, and from one source actually, dead to achieve what he believes to be his finest and ultimate humanoid weapon of mass destruction.

He has taken Dick Cheney's psychotic obsession for secrecy and aggressive behavior, added some of Richard Nixon's paranoia and vengefulness, tossed in some of Phyllis Schlafly's pious self-righteousness, a soupcon of Pat Robertson's God mania, and, in act of personal hubris, added a dollop of his own proclivity for total and utter annihilation of his opponents. Et, voila!...Sarah Palin.

At this point I am sure you are asking yourselves, how do I know all this? Well aside from the ability to see things as they are and not as the Republicans would have me believe them to be, the newly reanimated MSM has begun to break down the various parts of Rove's creation. And today in a New York Times front page article researched and written by Jo Becker, Peter S. Goodman, and Michael Powell, we are given our most in-depth examination to date of what Rove hath wrought upon just one small part of our great nation. And it is terrifying to behold. After reading some of the following excerpts from this exceptional piece of investigative reporting, we can only conclude that we can never allow Rove's creation to spread its path of destruction across the entire country and perhaps the world itself.

"(W)hen there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency."

"When Ms. Palin had to cut her first state budget, she avoided the legion of frustrated legislators and mayors. Instead, she huddled with her budget director and her husband, Todd, an oil field worker who is not a state employee, and vetoed millions of dollars of legislative projects."

"Throughout her political career, she has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance, according to a review of public records and interviews with 60 Republican and Democratic legislators and local officials."

"In Wasilla, a builder said he complained to Mayor Palin when the city attorney put a stop-work order on his housing project. She responded, he said, by engineering the attorney’s firing."

"Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy."

"(I)nterviews make clear that the Palins draw few distinctions between the personal and the political."

"For years, social conservatives had pressed the library director to remove books they considered immoral."... “People would bring books back censored,” recalled former Mayor John Stein, Ms. Palin’s predecessor. “Pages would get marked up or torn out.”"

"As she assembled her cabinet and made other state appointments, those with insider credentials were now on the outs. But a new pattern became clear. She surrounded herself with people she has known since grade school and members of her church."

"The Wasilla High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government. "

"While Ms. Palin took office promising a more open government, her administration has battled to keep information secret. "

"Many lawmakers contend that Ms. Palin is overly reliant on a small inner circle that leaves her isolated. Democrats and Republicans alike describe her as often missing in action. Since taking office in 2007, Ms. Palin has spent 312 nights at her Wasilla home, some 600 miles to the north of the governor’s mansion in Juneau, records show."

"The administration’s e-mail correspondence reveals a siege-like atmosphere. Top aides keep score, demean enemies and gloat over successes. Even some who helped engineer her rise have felt her wrath."

"At a recent lunch gathering, an official with the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce asked its members to refer all calls from reporters to the governor’s office. Dianne Woodruff, a city councilwoman, shook her head. “I was thinking, I don’t remember giving up my First Amendment rights,” Ms. Woodruff said. "