Sarah Palin, the Christian Right and Fascism in America

[rs]

Palin leaves open option of war with Russia

As the grandfather always said on "Everybody Loves Raymond":

Holy Crap!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_el_pr/palin_interview_3

Palin leaves open option of war with Russia

18 minutes ago

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin left open the option Thursday of waging war with Russia if it were to invade neighboring Georgia and the former Soviet republic were a NATO ally. "We will not repeat a Cold War," Palin said in her first television interview since becoming Republican John McCain's vice presidential running mate two weeks ago.
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Palin told Charles Gibson of ABC News that she'd favor including Georgia and Ukraine, both former Soviet republics, in NATO despite opposition by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Asked whether the United States would have to go to war with Russia if it invaded Georgia, and the country was part of NATO, Palin said: "Perhaps so."

"I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help," she said.

Pressed on the question, Palin responded: "What I think is that smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against ... We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to."

She added: "It doesn't have to lead to war and it doesn't have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries."

Palin spoke the same day Putin insisted that Russia has no intention of encroaching on the sovereignty of Georgia, following a brief war that left Russian troops in firm control of two breakaway regions. Putin also aggressively defended the decision to send troops to Georgia, saying Russia had to act after Georgia attacked South Ossetia last month.

On other matters, Palin said she "didn't hesitate" when McCain asked her to be his running mate, a surprise selection that shook up the presidential race.

"I answered him 'yes' because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink. So I didn't blink then even when asked to run as his running mate," said the 44-year-old Palin, who has been in office less than two years.

Questioned about whether she felt ready to step in as vice president or perhaps even president if something happened to the 72-year-old McCain, Palin said: "I do, Charlie, and on January 20, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we'll be ready. I'm ready."

Gibson also read Palin a comment she made in her former church — "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God" — and asked whether she thought the United States was fighting a holy war.

Palin said she was recalling Abraham Lincoln's words when she made the comment and said: "I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words."

She said she didn't know if her son Track who is headed to Iraq was on a mission from God.

"What I know is that my son has made a decision. I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made, what he decided to do and serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer," Palin said.

 

[PepperFritz]

Re: Palin leaves open option of war with Russia

What I think is that smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against....

The subtext being that the U.S. is free to invade any country (small or big) whose government does not conform to its definition of "democratic".

Holy crap indeed.

 

[BK]

Re: Palin leaves open option of war with Russia

...Gibson also read Palin a comment she made in her former church — "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God" — and asked whether she thought the United States was fighting a holy war.

Palin said she was recalling Abraham Lincoln's words when she made the comment and said: "I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words."

She said she didn't know if her son Track who is headed to Iraq was on a mission from God.

Bravo. She was very well coached on these answers.
Play it very careful and make it sound like she's just a spiritual woman rather than a religious zealot.
My goodness, it's amazing how she backs off on claims that are the very soul of fundamentalist Christianty.
If she's really serious about not knowing what God's will is, she will renounce those evangelicals that claim God's words and instructions for humanity are literally represented in the Bible.
She will renounce Pat Robertson, Rod Parsley, John Hagee, James Dobson, and a whole host of other Christian clerics that claim God communicates directly to them so that they can relay the message to humanity.
She will renounce missionaries that go out into the world with an agenda to tell everyone what God's plan and words are.
She will also renounce G.W. Bush for claiming that he was doing God's will by attacking Iraq.
Fat chance of her ever doing any of that.

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Here's a recent interview:

_http://www.mooseinheadlights.com/

Although I don't think she's being "stupid" as the website implies. I think she's simply avoiding the question - not because she doesn't "know" the answer, but because she doesn't want "trouble" by giving a concrete answer.

 

[Mr. Premise]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Her hairdo even replicates the sloped skull thing of Nefertiti! See the picture in this SOTT article:

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/165634-Expert-Palin-Didn-t-Look-Confident

This woman, Sarah Palin, is Nefertiti / Helen reincarnated - the destroyer of the ancient world, the reason all women were reduced to chattel, the landscape in which Judaic monotheism - the scourge of our civilization - was born.

 

[Laura]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

I noticed this today and wondered if there is any connection between it and the nomination of Sarah Palin?

Swastika Epidemic in the United States

Ze'ev Ben-Yechiel
IsraelNN
Wed, 10 Sep 2008

An epidemic of swastikas has spread in the United States in recent days. Police are scrambling to find suspects as Nazi symbols and other anti-Semitic graffiti have appeared on storefronts, synagogues and other locations in dozens of locations across the country. Many incidents occurred over the Labor Day holiday. Rewards have been offered for the finding of the culprits.

In Arizona, graffiti "artists" spray-painted swastikas on several buildings, including a Family Dollar store. Some of the swastikas were accompanied by a painted circle with an "x" running through it and the words "Say No" appearing in the middle. Police are looking for the culprits of these attacks and others in the area, including the painting of swastikas and other anti-Semitic messages on a traffic sign, a garage door and several mailboxes.

On Sunday, near Boston, Massachusetts, a swastika was found scratched into the door of a Reform temple. Suspects have yet to be found after Rabbi Benjamin Lefkowitz found the Nazi symbol on the door of Temple Beth Sholom in the town of Hull, according to the local newspaper The Patriot Ledger.

Jewish institutions in Georgia and California also became the repeated targets of swastika tagging over the weekend.

The same Sunday of the Hull, Mass. attack, the Atlanta Jounal-Constitution reported that in the Atlanta, Georgia suburb of Sandy Springs, a swastika was found painted on a stop sign near a Jewish day school. It was the second time in a month that the area near the Epstein School has been targeted with swastikas.

Sandy Springs police announced Tuesday that they were doubling the reward offered for information leading to the capture and conviction of the perpetrators, from $2,500 to $5,000.

Over the weekend, vandals painted a swastika on a Conservative synagogue northeast of San Diego, California. The San Diego Sheriff's Department reported that it was the third time since April that Temple Ner Tamid in Poway was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. Local authorities reported that the synagogue, serving some 120 families, was targeted in May with "white-supremacist letters, numbers and signs", including symbols that apparently meant "Heil Hitler."

The Anti-Defamation League, an organization founded to combat anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, led a number of other organizations in offering a cash reward of $11,500 for information helping the police to apprehend the suspects in the Ner Tamid case.

In upstate New York, a swastika was discovered Saturday morning on a local synagogue by postal workers. Goldie Goldberg, president of the Kerhonkson Synagogue, said that until it was painted over the swastika was large enough to be visible from the road. Kerhonkson is a small community about 70 miles north of New York City near the Catskill Mountains, an area long known for its numerous summer resorts catering to Jewish families. The synagogue serves about 40 families.

In St. Cloud, Minnesota, paper cutouts of the letters "KKK" - likely a reference to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan - were found Monday taped to the wall of an elevator of a residence hall on the campus of St. Cloud State University.

Police say that the case may be linked to the appearance last year of more than a dozen swastikas and other racist images, carved or written on walls, bathroom stalls and elevators across the St. Paul-Minneapolis-area campus.

Last Thursday, an 18-year-old in Longview, Washington, was arrested for assaulting an interracial couple. Shawn Mooney wore a cap with a swastika during the attack, and police are also questioning him in a case of swastikas that were found spray-painted on the home of a black family in the town.

Maybe the "Nordic Covenant" people are on the move, preparing the ground for when McCain and Palin get elected?

"Swastika Sarah" anyone?

 

[Adaryn]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Swastika Epidemic in the United States

The frightening by-product of these beliefs is that, since the Cult is in Power in
the United States, it is so easy to create the very situations which are described,
thus ensuring the fulfillment of the ideas of the Dispensationalists: the Cult that
wants to create Armageddon needs five billion people on the planet to go willingly
to the sacrificial altar, and Muslims have been chosen to be first.
The nation of Israel, the Jewish people, have suffered so much and so long that
they simply do not know who to trust anymore. And now we have individuals who
are religious fanatics—Zionists—coming along and doing everything possible to
stir up anti-Semitic feelings, calling on all their fellow Jews to unite and congre-
gate in Israel—the Promised Land of their religion—in the same way it has hap-
pened over and over again throughout history. Seeing this self-destructive ten-
dency is not only painful, but gives one a feeling of desperation. Not again!
It is very sad because we hear the rumble of revulsion building all around. It is at
the root of the growing neo-Nazi thug movement; it is heard even at the supermar-
ket in the checkout line. A current of anger and resentment threading its way into
the subconscious minds of non-Jews—that will lay the groundwork for the arising
of a new Hitler. Only this time, he won’t be just a German dude with the force of
the Allies there to stomp him in the dirt. He will raise that ugly cry again, the cry
that will be seen as justified by the very actions of Jews themselves, who have
walked right into the trap. All the problems will be presented as existing in Jews,
in Israel… and he (or they) will present so simple a way to solve these problems:
they will point out that the Jews are all gathered in one place (or at least they are
all known because they all belong to clubs and synagogues because those kind
Zionist folks have been going around gathering them back into the fold), so the
‘Final Solution’ will be resurrected again. And the whole rest of the human race
will not realize that they have been had.

 

[Alana]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

This woman, Sarah Palin, is Nefertiti / Helen reincarnated - the destroyer of the ancient world, the reason all women were reduced to chattel, the landscape in which Judaic monotheism - the scourge of our civilization - was born.

I too made the Helel/Sarah connection in my head! Sarah "appeared" a bit after the time you were posting Laura, all the info about Gog Magog, the Black virgin, and the "Helen of Troy" connections you discovered in your research. As we were getting an idea of the Goddess universe/reality, the beautiful face of God, there she comes to show the other face:

The last CTD article ended with this:

The question that remains however is: which "face of god" will the majority of humanity choose to look upon?

The answer, at least for now, remains open.

And the answer to what America appears to be choosing:

No one clue is enough on its own, but all together, it paints a portrait of the epitome of the destructive face of the goddess which America (and the rest of the world that has sat by and done nothing to contain the threat) has chosen to witness/experience.

Also about her hairdo/head shape, i was looking through the google images of Palin, and most pictures show her with a hairdo that is "puffy" - don't know how else to call it on the back of the head. found this profile one:

http://Even

when her hair is down too she does them in a "puffy" way:

And apparently, this Palin hairdo is becoming fashion, -http://www.hairstyle-blog.com/sarah-palin-hair-style-at-rnc.html

She started affecting women in all ways possible :O If the survival of the civilization lies for most part on women waking up and putting their creative energies in full force together to fight the ever-growing entropy out there, imagine the implications of putting up Palin as a role model to follow! Let alone her becoming US president!

The US News journalist got it more right than he probably realizes when he wrote:

The first parts of the Gibson interviews gave no indication that she has given serious thought to how to run the country. Instead we got talking points about how she's "wired." (I don't need experience, I have leadership pre-programmed!)

{shivers}

 

[Laura]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Thanks, PFR for the quote. Yes indeedy, and now we begin to get a glimmer of how it will play out: Fundie Sarah...

 

[Laura]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

{snip}
The US News journalist got it more right than he probably realizes when he wrote:

The first parts of the Gibson interviews gave no indication that she has given serious thought to how to run the country. Instead we got talking points about how she's "wired." (I don't need experience, I have leadership pre-programmed!)

{shivers}

"Wired" and "pre-programmed" as in psychopathy!

Funny that she looks a lot like the Diana character in the TV series: "V".

 

[Alana]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Excellent! She is even in the dreams of Americans now Warnings from the collective unconscious:

-http://www.slate.com/id/2200015/pagenum/all/#page_start

This week, we asked Slate readers to e-mail us with their Sarah Palin dreams. So far, you've sent us nearly 500 of them. Many of you were appalled that Slate would undertake such a frivolous (according to liberals) or insulting (according to conservatives) project (click here to read some of those furious responses), but even more readers were relieved to know that they weren't the only ones who went to sleep every night and discovered the newly crowned conservative queen in their dreams.

It's hard to generalize about such a large group of dreams, but there were a few persistent themes: Palin as a gun-toting animal killer, pregnancies and denied abortions, baby Trig, and the landscape of Alaska. Many of you reported dreaming about John McCain dying and Palin taking over the Oval Office. Both men and straight women reported sexual fantasies involving the Alaska governor.

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents all wrote to us, though judging by the content of the dreams, we heard disproportionately from Palin foes. This may indicate that Slate's readership skews Democratic, or it may signify something else: According to Kelly Bulkeley, author of American Dreamers: What Dreams Tell Us About the Political Psychology of Conservatives, Liberals, and Everyone Else, "conservatives tend to recall fewer dreams, and they take less interest in the subject than do liberals." Even so, not everyone is partisan in their dreams. Democrats had dreams in which Palin helped them with a personal problem or gave them money, and Republicans had nightmares in which Palin brought about World War III. The dreams weren't all about politics, either. Palin appeared sticking her finger in Indian pudding, washing dishes at a Jewish summer camp, and making a hotel bed in Las Vegas.

Some of the nightmares, though all are telling imo:

"I'm on a small town main street. There is no one there. I start walking, and then suddenly Sarah Palin starts walking toward me. She comes up to me and says, 'It's okay. Ignorance is a pretty good excuse.' Then she hands me a twenty."—Josh Cole

"I had this horrible dream about Sarah Palin on Monday, the day of the release of the Bristol Palin pregnancy news. I dreamed that I was walking down a dark, grimy street and felt a strange feeling on the right side of my abdomen. I looked down and there was a little bump there, a bulge, and it was moving. Suddenly, a huge, oily, millipede-esque parasite started crawling out of the bump. I was horrified and disgusted as I began to pull on it to get it out, and when I pulled the whole thing out (it was about 6 inches long), I saw that it had a head on each side of its body. I looked up and Sarah Palin was there, smiling her huge smile, looking like an evil librarian, and she said to me, very sweetly 'Oh, there it is! How wonderful! Now I'd like to talk to you about an amazing opportunity to host another one in your body ...' She smiled the entire time she was talking to me, and it was almost a Joker-like smile."—Anna Tarleton Potter

...Much of the dream is foggy, as I did not even know she existed until six weeks ago. Now I think about her a lot."—Michael A. Kaiser

"I had stomach cancer, and my parents were preparing me to die, nurturing me. Sarah Palin was a doctor who delivered the bad news I would die. She was calm and stern. She put her hand on my stomach. She and my parents exchanged a look as if they knew something that I didn't."—Jake Breeden

"In my dream she is seated in the Oval Office busily using her crayons and a coloring book. I am standing in front of the desk where she sits, at attention, with my hands behind my back. In my dream, I am a man, looking like the stereotypical Secret Service agent (sans sunglasses and earpiece). I keep trying to get her attention for some urgent matter, but she is feverishly coloring. I want to grab her and slap her, and I strain to keep my composure. Her tongue is sticking out of her mouth as she concentrates on her masterpiece, and her hair is disheveled, although she is impeccably dressed. There are many other people milling around behind me in the room, and the atmosphere is tense, but no one approaches her, no one can figure out how to get her attention. I have this feeling of impending doom. I am frantic. Then I wake up."—Marta Nelson

 

[Ruth]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Maybe the "Nordic Covenant" people are on the move, preparing the ground for when McCain and Palin get elected?

"Swastika Sarah" anyone?

Session 960323
A: The Nordic Covenant was a duality.
Q: (L) SV comes from that area where that Nordic covenant, what is it, Minnesota, she's from Minnesota? Oh, I never
made that connection! Holy Frijoles! 'Nordic Covenant was a duality' ... so, when you made mention of the Nordic
Covenant, and the banking scandal, was that a double-layered statement to us?
A: Maybe, but you are missing the point! All persons of Nordic heritage hold secret power centers, can be of darkness,
or of light... SV is of Teutonic bloodline leading directly to such super power source such as Thule Society and others,
and she is aware of her powers and mission. It is of positive orientation. However, you are being tested by 4th through
6th density forces to determine if you have the strength and wisdom for continuance!

Lets hope they're not all doing that!

 

[Laura]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Excellent! She is even in the dreams of Americans now Warnings from the collective unconscious:

-http://www.slate.com/id/2200015/pagenum/all/#page_start

Interesting!

Have a look here: http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/thirdreich.html

During the 1930's, Nazi Germany's rise to totalitarian power was well under way. Warning signs of the terror to come was being felt by increasing numbers of people. Among them was a young woman of great courage and insight. Charlotte Beradt recorded and collected people's dreams about the Nazi government's domination of their lives; dreams that tell of the painful political realities of the emerging Nazi State. In his essay at the conclusion of the volume, published in 1966, Bruno Bettelheim remarked that it was a shocking experience reading this book of dreams and seeing how effectively the Nazis murdered sleep, "forcing its enemies to dream dreams that showed that resistance was impossible and that safety lay only in compliance."

 

[Meg]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Found a video on youtube which has footage of Sarah Palin speaking to the congregation of her church in Wasilla.

She’s a disciple of the lord jesus Christ before she’s a mayor. She wants nothing but the destiny fulfilled for the State of Alaska

“So what comes from this church I think has great destiny…”

“Where god has said to me from underneath the umbrella on this church...”

“Over the world map right now, there’s something going on in Alaska and I think there’s something going on here with where you all are going as master’s commission students and now graduates and what’s going on in the State of Alaska”

“If god is going to tell you what is going on and what is going to go on…That’s going to be your job-your job is going to be to be out there reaching the people, hurting/herding (?) people throughout Alaska…’

“Lord, make a way and let her do this next step”

“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from god”

“Good, good things in store for the State of Alaska. Let us pray for gods will to be done here. For all of your destinies to be met in this State”

Very disturbing. :O

Sarah Palin's churches are actively involved in a resurgent movement that was declared heretical by the Assemblies of God in 1949. This is the same 'Spiritual Warfare' movement that was featured in the award winning movie, "Jesus Camp," which showed young children being trained to do battle for the Lord. At least three of four of Palin's churches are involved with major organizations and leaders of this movement, which is referred to as The Third Wave of the Holy Spirit or the New Apostolic Reformation. The movement is training a young "Joel's Army" to take dominion over the United States and the world.

Along with her entire family, Sarah Palin was re-baptized at twelve at the Wasilla Assembly of God in Wasilla, Alaska and she attended the church from the time she was ten until 2002: over two and 1/2 decades. Sarah Palin's extensive pattern of association with the Wasilla Assembly of God has continued nearly up to the day she was picked by Senator John McCain as a vice-presidential running mate. Palin's dedication to the Wasilla church is indicated by a Saturday, September 7, 2008, McClatchy news service story detailing possibly improper use of state travel funds by Palin for a trip she made to Wasilla, Alaska to attend, on June 8, 2008, both a Wasilla Assembly of God "Masters Commission" graduation ceremony and also a multi-church Wasilla area event known as "One Lord Sunday." At the latter event, Palin and Alaska LT Governor Scott Parnell were publicly blessed, onstage before an estimated crowd of 6,000, through the "laying on of hands" by Wasilla Assembly of God's Head Pastor Ed Kalnins whose sermons espouse such theological concepts as the possession of geographic territories by demonic spirits and the inter-generational transmission of family "curses". Palin has also been blessed, or "anointed," by an African cleric, prominent in the Third Wave movement, who has repeatedly visited the Wasilla Assembly of God and claims to have effected positive, dramatic social change in a Kenyan town by driving out a "spirit of witchcraft."

The Wasilla Assembly of God church is deeply involved with both Third Wave activities and theology. Their Master's Commission program is part of an three year post-high school international training program with studies in prophecy, intercessory prayer, Biblical exegesis, authority and leadership. The pastor, Ed Kalnins, and Masters Commission students have traveled to South Carolina to participate in a "prophetic conference" at Morningstar Ministries, one of the major ministries of the Third Wave movement. Becky Fischer was a pastor at Morningstar prior to being featured in the movie "Jesus Camp." The head of prophecy at Morningstar, Steve Thompson, is currently scheduled to do a prophecy seminar at the Wasilla Assembly of God. Other major leaders in the movement have also traveled to Wasilla to visit and speak at the church.

(More at Huffington Post under Bruce Wilson's page.)

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naXqE4dTxPA

_http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin

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[mamadrama]

Re: Sarah Palin Discussion - Deep Level Punctuator?

Here's an article from UK's Telegraph:

Neoconservatives plan Project Sarah Palin to shape future American foreign policy
Neoconservatives whose influence had been waning in Washington have hitched their colours to rising star Sarah Palin in a bid to shape US foreign policy for another decade.

By Tim Shipman in Wasilla, Alaska
Last Updated: 12:30PM BST 13 Sep 2008

Comments by the governor of Alaska in her first television interview, in which she said Nato may have to go to war with Russia and took a tough line on Iran's nuclear programme, were the result of two weeks of briefings by neoconservatives.

Sources in the McCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs Palin was identified as a potential future leader of the neoconservative cause in June 2007. That was when the annual summer cruise organised by the right-of-centre Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Governor Palin.

Her case as John McCain's running mate was later advanced vociferously by William Kristol, the magazine's editor, who is widely seen as one of the founding fathers of American neoconservative thought - including the robust approach to foreign policy which spurred American intervention in Iraq.

In 1988, Mr Kristol became a leading adviser of another inexperienced Republican vice presidential pick, Dan Quayle, tutoring him in foreign affairs. Last week he praised Mrs Palin as "a spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism" that "is haunting the liberal elites".

Now many believe that the "neocons", whose standard bearer in government, Vice President Dick Cheney, lost out in Washington power struggles to the more moderate defence secretary Robert Gates and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, last year are seeking to mould Mrs Palin to renew their influence.

A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, a bastion of Washington neoconservatism, admitted: "She's bright and she's a blank page. She's going places and it's worth going there with her."

Asked if he sees her as a "project", the former official said: "Your word, not mine, but I wouldn't disagree with the sentiment."

Pat Buchanan, the former Republican presidential candidate and a foreign policy isolationist, who opposes the war in Iraq, the project most closely associated with the neocons, said: "Palin has become, overnight, the most priceless political asset the movement has.

"Look for the neocons to move with all deliberate speed to take her into their camp by pressing upon her advisers and staff, and steering her into the AEI-Weekly Standard-War Party orbit." The AEI, or American Enterprise Institute, is a free-market think-tank with many neo-cons among its members.

In the two weeks since she was named as Mr McCain's running mate that is just what has happened. While Mr McCain was publicly distancing himself from the policies and personalities of the Bush administration, Mrs Palin was sequestered with a series of former aides to George W. Bush.

Mr McCain's chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, an influential neoconservative, wasted no time in briefing Mrs Palin. He quickly made Steve Biegun, a former number three on the National Security Council, her chief foreign policy adviser.

Steven Clemons, of the New American Foundation think tank in Washington, a chronicler of the ebb and flow of neocon power in the White House, bemoaned the appointment, saying Mr Biegun "will turn her into an advocate of Cheneyism and Cheney's view of national-security issues."

Eyebrows were also raised when, on the Tuesday after her selection, Mrs Palin was ushered into the company of AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobby group in Washington.

In her first television interview, she was on message, agreeing with Mr McCain that Israel has the right to take military action against Iran if necessary. "I don't think that we should second-guess the measures that Israel has to take to defend themselves and for their security," she said.

Jacob Heilbrunn, author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons, said the interview was "further evidence that she has soaked up the neocon view of the world." He was particularly alarmed by her suggestion that war with Russia is "perhaps" a possibility.

"The neocons surrounded Dan Quayle, with William Kristol becoming his main tutor. Now both McCain and Palin are being closely advised by neocons. Far from being chastened by the Iraq debacle, the neocons are now poised for their moment of greatest influence." Mr Buchanan has predicted Mrs Palin will become a major player for years to come.

"In choosing Palin, McCain may also have changed the course of history," he said. "Should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base, wholly independent of President McCain."

_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/2827217/Neoconservatives-plan-Project-Sarah-Pain-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html