“”That’s what I was trying to get at. Gov Palin was seen as very threatening because she is so far from what they represent and a win by her would be such a repudiation of everything they believe in and stand for.”
If Todd Palin were a man of wealth and power instead of a blue collar man with nothing but his outdoor job and wages, I think that it would have been much easier for elitists of the left and right to accept her on the stage (and her bumping them off of it).
This thing about all of this actually being accomplished by her, with out even a parental inheritance or famous name to open doors for her seems to be causing a real disturbance among people that like a certain social order.
She is a throw back to a younger, more volatile, less structured America, and she does all of this in a skirt and high heels, while handling a brood of five kids and a very satisfied looking, verile husband.
I found it ironic especially that Springsteen supported Obama when Todd and Sarah Palin were probably the living embodiment of so many of his songs, certainly much more so than Barack and Michelle.
Look at The River:
I come from down in the valley where mister when you’re young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done
Me and Mary[Sarah]met in high school when she was just seventeen
Then I got Mary pregnant and man tat was all she wrote, and for my nineteenth birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat
We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest...
Based on what I’ve read, the song is almost a biography of them.
And I can certainly picture a Sarah Palin who gave her son his middle name so that it would be Van Palin to sound like Van Halen being more a Springsteen fan in the 80s than Obama. So much for loyalty.
But you got to my point. Thats what I was trying to get across