[Publib] Palin's history

[Rebecca Tomerlin]

What political pundit wrote this???

Fred Beisser wrote:
> 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
>> Visit my blog:  http://suekamm.blogspot.com
>> email:  suekamm [at] mindspring.com
>> "High fly ball into right field ... she is gone!  In a year that has seemed so improbable, the impossible has happened!"  
>> - Vin Scully, describing Kirk Gibson's walk-off home run, Game 1, 1988 World Series
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