OUR SISTER SARAH PALIN'S ANTI-ELITIST CHARM

New York Post ^ | September 20, 2008 | RALPH PETERS

[nickcarraway]

I KNOW Sarah Palin, and so does my wife.

Neither of us ever actually met the governor of Alaska, but we grew up with her - in the small-town America despised by the leftwing elite.

One gal-pal classmate of my wife's has even traveled from New York's Finger Lakes to Alaska to hunt moose with her husband. (Got one, too.) And no, Ms. Streisand, she isn't a redneck missing half her teeth - she's a lawyer.

The sneering elites and their mediacrat fellow travelers just don't get it: How on earth could anyone vote for someone who didn't attend an Ivy League school? And having more than 1.7 children marks any woman as a rube. (If Palin had any taste, her teenage daughter would've had a quiet abortion in a discreet facility.)

And what kind of retro-Barbie would stay happily married to her high-school sweetheart? Ugh. She even kills animals and eats them. (The meat and fish served in the upscale bistros patronized by Obama supporters appears by magic - it didn't really come from living things. . .)

Palin has that hick accent, too. And that busy-mom beehive 'do. Double ugh! Bet she hasn't even read Ian McEwan's latest novel and can't explain Frank Gehry's vision for a new architecture. She and her blue-collar (triple ugh!) husband don't even own a McMansion, let alone an inherited family compound on the Cape.

And she wants to be vice president?

The opinion-maker elites see Sarah Palin clearly every time they look up from another sneering article in The New Yorker: She's a country-bumpkin chumpette from a hick state with low latte availability. She's not one of them and never will be. That's the real disqualifier in this race.

[houeto]

Buck fever took quite a toll.

Buck fever is the nervous excitement a person gets when they first spot game.

[houeto]

The Clinton era is dead. The Palin era is in it's infancy. I can't wait for tomorrow!

Then never, never, never stop praying for her safety!

A small play on your tagline, but I am serious.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Buck fever is the nervous excitement a person gets when they first spot game.”

You’re right of course — I was thinking back to my school days, when all the boys would develop a bad case of “flu” on opening day. Amongst ourselves, we called it “buck fever” as a joke.