Listen, what we’re dealing with here and with Big Monkey(?) are what I perceive are the country club pubbies. These are the “conservatives” (McCain-backers) Sowell was referring to. They don’t like a common man’s candidate you can tell it how much disdain shown in their comments. Probably both high-end income earners (not mad at that) but the attitude is one of superiority and pedigree. The Republican Party is changing and we’re going with the plain spoken salt of the earth types. I’m no longer going for the professional politician nor the “It’s my turn because of my upbringing, background, and heritage” types-—bump that give me Sarah and Fred Thompson and Rush Limbaugh types.
I think you must be right. I have several Republican friends who regard Palin with the same disdain ... and indeed, they are higher-end, professionals who work in mental-intellectual pursuits as opposed to production and employment (i.e. businesses, producers) pursuits.
Fred Thompson has been involved in professional politics his ENTIRE adult life. He has TWO undergrad degrees and graduated in the top three of his law school class at Vanderbilt (the Harvard of the South). Exactly how is he the "common man?",
People don't love Sarah Palin, they're IN LOVE with Sarah Palin. Either they look like her (or want to), or like her family or her locutions or they share a similar life story. Maybe they just like her because she's a woman in what they perceive to be a man's world.
That's not how I pick my Presidential Candidates. I care what they've accomplished, what they think, how they think and how frequently they think. And last but not least, I'm deeply interested in how effectively they can communicate their ideas, strategies and plans without terrifying more than half the population.