Sarah Palin is the most socialist politician in the United States.
By describing Alaska's governor in this way, I do not use the word "socialist" in any "qualified" or "diminished" sense. Rather, I describe Gov. Palin's oil tax re-distribution policy as "socialist" in the most fundamental sense of the word: "Taking money from the rich and redistributing it, equally, among everyonewho is not rich." Whether measured by "philosophical substance" or by actual "policymaking,"Gov. Palin is the nation's most determined socialist official.