One quibble I have is that I believe I am intelligent and (most likely) fall in the upper-middle class, so I was a bit perturbed that the article felt that Sarah only appealled to less educated, lower middle class people.
They did make the case that it was intellectual elitism on both the right and left that felt the most disdain for Gov. Palin and that I feel is a fair statement.
I have to say that if you are so intellectually elite that you can not appreciate the positive that is Gov. Palin, then you are pretty stupid.
Commentary Magazine, of course, put it better...
The reaction of the intellectual elite to Sarah Palin was far more provincial than Palin herself ever has been, and those who reacted so viscerally against her evinced little or no appreciation for an essential premise of democracy: that practical wisdom matters at least as much as formal education, and that leadership can emerge from utterly unexpected places. The presumption that the only road to power passes through the Ivy League and its tributaries is neither democratic nor sensible, and is, moreover, a sharp and wrongheaded break from the American tradition of citizen governance.As Commentary goes on to say, it is the intellectual elite who believe they are helping the "little guy" while having no inclination to allow those little people access to the "levers of power".
Shame really. The American Intellectual Elite gene pool is rapidly becoming a puddle.
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Commentary also missed the fact that much of her interview with Charlie Gibson ended up on the cutting room floor. Gibson also misquoted her on her Lincoln inspired prayer and was himself unaware that the Bush doctrine had many differing interpretations besides the simplistic one he understood. The real contrast was the antagonistic way they interviewed Palin and the softballs that got lobbed O's way.
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