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The fear is palpable.

Having followed politics for many years I can honestly say that I have never witnessed an individual with absolutely no political power that strikes the level of abject terror into the hearts of liberals like Sarah Palin.

Ronald Reagan made liberals jittery so they tried to portray him as a tottering old war monger. But Jimmy Carter had succeeded in running the country’s economy into the ground, had his brother drinking beer and peeing on the flowers in the White House rose garden and made America a laughing stock around the world with his handling of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran hostage debacle, so much so that by the end of his first term even Attila the Hun would have been seen as an acceptable alternative.

George W Bush certainly raised panic in the liberal community with his successful tax cuts and his firm handling of one of America’s greatest tragedies on 9-11. Every effort was made to detract from his accomplishments through deception and fabrication, all of which was gleefully disseminated by a liberal press anxious to oust him. Try as they might Americans still preferred him to the cardboard John Kerry, which allowed the liberals another four years of Bush is Hitler comparisons.

But these were conservative men wielding great power. Sarah Palin holds no political office. She has no power outside of her own personal comments. She can pass no laws nor can she create any bills. Her only claim to fame is as the ex-Governor of Alaska and as a failed candidate for Vice President. Why then does this political has-been still evoke such a strong sense of terror and trepidation with the mere mention of her name?

As Palin’s book “Going Rogue” makes its way onto store shelves it already holds a place on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Sarah has something to say and Americans are eager to hear it. But it is more than that. You can fact check what Sarah Palin says by the way she lives. Palin is a liberal’s worst nightmare, an honest conservative woman that not only talks the talk but walks the walk. If you want to fact check her dedication to getting rid of corrupt politics, just look at her record and the long list of enemies she made cleaning up politics in Alaska. If you want to fact check her views on conservative financial reform, just look at her record of reform in Alaska and more importantly look at her lifestyle. If you want to fact check her sincerity on her beliefs in the Right to Life you need look no farther than the Downs Syndrome baby in her arms.

Liberals are so desperate to find something, anything, to throw at Sarah Palin that Newsweek’s latest issue cover photo uses an old picture taken for an issue of Runner’s World magazine as an attempt to create a demeaning sexist cheesecake pinup. The Huffington Post is so desperate to slam Palin’s new book that they published a critical review by someone that admits they haven’t even read the book.

If Sarah ever had any hope of garnering even a smattering of support from the liberal feminist sisterhood she has long since abandoned those hopes. Sarah Palin is successful because she is everything the feminists are not and more importantly she is not what they propose women to be. Sarah Palin is not a victim.

That in a nutshell is why Sarah Palin strikes such terror into the beating liberal heart. She does not claim to be a victim and she fights victimization. Her book is part political memoir and part personal autobiography. She does not claim to be a victim of deprived birth by being raised in the wilds of Alaska; in fact she makes it clear she views that as making her stronger. She does not claim to be a victim of genetic defect with the birth of her handicapped son, but rather uses it to show the true meaning of love. Even in the chapters that deal with her frustrations in the handling of the McCain Palin campaign she does not claim to be a victim but rather a fighter that stood up for what she believed, win or lose.

Never in the history of presidential politics has the vice-presidential candidate had so much blame heaped on them for the failure of the ticket. Even ex-vice-presidents that later ran and lost a presidential bid did not receive such glaring culpability. But Palin came through it wiser and stronger. Will she run for office in 2012? Who knows?

But what has liberals worried is not what she does in 2012. It’s what she does between now and then.