Kinda make you wonder how is this would pass the Quayle Test.
Actually, you don’t have to wonder at all, do you?
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Kinda make you wonder how is this would pass the Quayle Test.
Actually, you don’t have to wonder at all, do you?
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” [NRO Campaign Spot]
I have often thought that political culture rather neatly divides between those who talk about doing things and those who actually have to get things done.
That both Palin and Obama supposedly lack foreign policy experience doesn’t bother me, because saying someone has foreign policy experience is pretty much equivalent to saying someone has a lot of experience casting horoscopes.
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.[WSJ Online]
Palin does remind me very strongly of the women I grew up with in Texas. All them could literally ride and shoot. I have one cousin I never see because she spends every Thanksgiving and Christmas hunting. The idea that such women look weak in the eyes of “feminists” says a great deal about the defects of contemporary “feminist” thinking.
Funny, how back in 2004, nobody thought being the governor of a small state meant a candidate didn’t have enough experience to be President.