Well I may be relatively unimpressed with Martin O'Malley, but Sarah Palin certainly sees him as a threat. Update!

Courtesy of Panic Stricken Annie's Facebook page: 

Yet another anti-freedom politician jumps in the race today for POTUS.  As cool as he is with his rock 'n roll persona, this typical liberal's erroneous grasp of our Bill of Rights merely continues the strange and disastrous agenda of Barack Obama. Good to know he doesn't have much chance of winning. (And yet you felt the need to quickly dash out this Facebook post?) The democrats have greased the skids for their chosen one, despite the media games that play the public with various "competing" campaigns used for gamey distractions. 

With today's more-of-the-same distract-sphere – with the politician sounding exactly like all the others – don't you wonder if there are ANY good old fashioned Blue Dog democrats who can represent the left’s party in the 2016 race? I feel kind of bad for democrats who are as embarrassed about their party leaving them as some of us Republicans are about our own party when we hear the GOP talk a good game but dishonorably capitulate when given the majority power to stop Obama's nonsense. (Can you say "projection?")

By now, most of those ol' Reagan democrats have come to realize that it was the party of Lincoln and Reagan all these years fighting for and winning the abolishment of slavery, civil rights for all Americans, equal rights for women, free markets, individual liberty, constitutional protections, private sector job growth, and a sensible foreign policy rooted in peace through strength. (Yes well the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln is certainly NOT the Republican party of today. Today's Republican party is working hard undermine the civil rights of those unlike themselves, not fight for them.) For those who still identify as democrats, it’s quite easy to bid a deceptive party an overdue farewell. Just tell me what state you're a resident of, and I'll post links to your voter registration office. Click on it. There you can finally bust free of a party that’s long since abandoned you. I recommend then registering "independent," or the equivalent of, in your state. Your newfound sweet freedom will empower you!  (So to be clear Palin is trying to convince Democrats to leave their party. Does anybody else smell the sweet sweet smell of desperation?)

Here's just one reason to do it: abolishing your name from the liberal's roll chips away at the democrat party's foundation that actually supports un-American acts like this:

(Palin then links to an internal DOJ report dated January 4. 2013, that addressed the Newtown shooting and considered some options for preventing further incidents of that sort in the future. Apparently this is a reason for panic in Palin-land.)

This report ran in an old news cycle, but it remains relevant until a constitutional conservative leads our exceptional nation; for as long as the far left retains power via their numbers, the extent that they are willing to go to trample our Bill of Rights only grows. 

- Sarah Palin

As you can see Palin, and her ghostwriter, cannot even bear to mention O'Malley by name, but since he is the only one to have announced today it kind of narrows the choices. 

So my takeaway from this, beyond my abject surprise at how agitated O'Malley's announcement made Palin, is that she is losing her shit over the realization that the Republicans simply do NOT have anybody who can really take Hillary on.

Which I have to admit kind of makes my day.

Update:  Well this definitely makes me like O'Malley a bit more.

Good to hear from you after all these years, @SarahPalinUSA. There's still room in GOP primary for another entrant! https://t.co/AhjD8DNbOn

— Martin O'Malley (@GovernorOMalley) May 30, 2015

Looks like he can give as good as he gets.