Finally, we’ve got an evangelical public figure with as much brains as balls. Frank Schaeffer is on the road calling Sarah Palin a “lipstick fascist” and makes some very strong arguments that the Republican Party is using the same tactics that the Nazi Party used in Germany to usher Hitler and the Third Reich into power. Is he being too harsh?

I don’t think he is. While I think there are still sufficient checks and balances in the system (for the time being) to prevent an all-out fascist takeover, I do believe that we’ve been on the slow track to fascism for the better part of a century. It’s only been recently, just in the last 20 years, that a major political party has been so brazen as to blatantly advocate fascist policies in America. The Bush Administration has taken that brazenness to a new level. Frank Schaeffer is absolutely correct that if McCain and Palin win then the next four years will see America slide further and deeper into labor camps.