You're right Ron. Her singular lack of intelligence, her belief in an extreme form of Christian fundamentalism, her appeal to Americans' worst angels are all reasons we SHOULD take her seriously. I still think she is the kind of politician who can win primaries by bringing out the base and then lose the general election by scaring the hell out of independents, but that's not a certainty by any means. We don't need to look too far back in our history (2004) to see an example of Americans electing a moronic right-wing idealogue to our highest office.