Sarah Palin "Guilty of Abusing Power"...

[NickFitz]

c. Gullible lower-middle-class women from idaho who watch too much Oprah and think Sarah Palin is standing up for their rights

Palin herself is pushing this "idea". Shelley Powers called her on it last week. From one of Shelley's responses to a comment on that post:

"...She plays to the least of us—the crowd that celebrates mediocrity, all the while saying that we need a free market system in order to filter out mediocrity...

...She caters to those who fear anyone who is different, gives a wink and a nod to the racists among us, and celebrates both the petty and the puerile...

But Palin angers me specifically because her actions countered what we have worked so hard the last several decades to fight: that women can make it without having to be a combination of Mom and Whore.

(Disclosure: Shelley asked me to be a technical reviewer for one of her programming books, although sadly other matters got in the way and I couldn't help, but obviously I'm biased in her favour. This doesn't mean she's wrong.)

[snaw]

I actually feel sorry for any right leaning voters in the US.

Imagine the Tory party celebrated dumbness and derided intellectuals as being dangerous and was in thrall to the Christian right. You end up with a potential president, and a potential presidential candidate in four years, when McCain loses, like Sarah Palin - she is dangerously stupid!