One can only hope the Republican party is rejecting her brand of religious, anti-[fill in the blank], business before people, and so on kind of politics, and getting back to what it once was. Oh, and actually being willing to… you know, what’s the word that is so out of favor in Washington now… govern. Yeah, that’s it!

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president responded to a Fox News Channel viewer’s Twitter question Saturday about the possibility of her and conservative talker Mark Levin abandoning the Republican Party and creating something called the “Freedom Party.”

Palin suggested she is open to the idea and said that if the GOP continues to abandon its conservative principles, other would follow suit.