[Publib] Palin's history

[Tim Spindle]

Peggy Noonan <http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html>.
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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
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