[Publib] Palin's history

[Fred Beisser]

You may be right, Sue.

Some commentary from a well-known political pundit:

> Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a 
> feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload 
> This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie 
> and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an 
> Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats 
> mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she 
> is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because 
> conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of 
> them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their 
> beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present 
> danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
>
> I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the 
> culture wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too. 
> The crustiest old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's 
> slammed. Pro-woman Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to be 
> all ambitious with kids in the house. Great respect goes to Barack 
> Obama not only for saying criticism of candidates' children is out of 
> bounds in political campaigns, but for making it personal, and 
> therefore believable. "My mother had me when she was eighteen…" That 
> was the lovely sound of class in American politics.
>
> Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the 
> chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of 
> the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble 
> people. We are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it 
> by taking road trips through the continent -- we're on one now, in 
> Minneapolis -- where we talk to normal people. But we soon forget the 
> pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and anyway 
> we weren't there long enough in the continent to KNOW, to absorb. We 
> view through a prism of hyper-sophistication, and judge by the rules 
> of Chevy Chase and Greenwich, of Cleveland Park and McLean, of 
> Bronxville and Manhattan.
>
> And again we know this, we know this is our limit, our lack.
>

> Another Bubblehead blind spot. I'm bumping into a lot of _critics who 
> do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship_ (Palin had two 
> terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and _executive as 
> opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small 
> towns, run something_. There are 262 cities in this country with a 
> population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred 
> thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. "You do the 
> math," the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. "We are a 
> nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."

Looks to me as if the author is saying that mainstream America will be 
voting.....

Fred



Sue Kamm wrote:
> I think the biggest worry the DNC may have about Hillary's supporters 
> is not that they'll vote for McCain but that they'll stay home on 
> Election Day.
> Your friendly CyberGoddess and Councilor-at-large,
> Sue Kamm
> Inglewood/Los Angeles, CA
> Truest of the Blue, Los Angeles Dodgers Think Blue Week 2000
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