Hey Katie May I Call You Joe Wink Wink - Road to the Middle Class

That’s according to Byron York at NRO. Yes, Bob Barnett was counting and Sarah Palin did six winks. As Rosalind said: Not to be endured! (That’s another sophisticated literary allusion.)

Yes, but what about a serious discussion of The Issues?

Good idea. And to do that we cannot do better than quote Good Ole Boy Fred Thompson.

â€œOne of the reasons I feel so good for her, just as a human being,â€ said former Sen. Fred Thompson, â€œis I have never seen anybody undergo the ridicule, the slanders and the lies, and the blogosphere and what theyâ€™re doing, and breaking into her private email, rumors and things about her, and now, most recently, belittling her, taking little snippets of interviews and laughing at her and satirizing her. Those people ought to be ashamed of themselves[.]

You know, if Sarah Palin were a liberal, say an important professor of Womens Studies, and Republicans did to her what Democrats just did, our liberal friends would be tearing up the pavement. They would be bellowing “McCarthyism” from every TV set, and Katie Couric... Well enough about her.

The delilcious thing about the whole business is that Sarah Palin’s folksiness drives our liberal friends absolutely nuts.

And there’s a deep philsophical reason for that. Oh yes. This is not just about an excess of colloquialisms. Sarah Palin’s folksiness changes the subject. All of a sudden we are not talking about liberal things, about racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, or about the endless parade of victims. All of a sudden we are in middle-class land, where people are assumed to have a basic competence about life. It’s assumed that they follow the rules, go to work, pay their taxes, and look after their families.

The whole point of liberalism is that some expert has to do all that for you.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

Comments:

Posted by: Jeff on 10/06/08 11:36pm

"You know, if Sarah Palin were a liberal, say an important professor of Womens Studies, and Republicans did to her what Democrats just did, our liberal friends would be tearing up the pavement...." No the correct corollary would be an ultra-left, short-term female governor of one of the least populous states, who has almost no experience of the world, other than as a tiny town mayor, and who bounced around from school to school before getting a degree from a second-rate university and serving as a sports announcer prior to her career in politics. The critical, crucial point that most honest commentators are making is that Palin is not even close to being qualified for the position for which she has been nominated. From all appearances and reports, hers is a shallow, reactive and fundamentalist mind. If the climate of hatred that she and McCain are creating toward Obama results in right-wing violence then they will be complicit.