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To: Dale Baker who wrote (82396)	9/5/2008 2:32:09 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 543012

The Mirrored Ceiling warner.blogs.nytimes.com This interesting (though a bit meandering) piece just popped up at the top of the Times' "Most popular" list. A little clip: Why does this woman – who to some of us seems as fake as they can come, with her delicate infant son hauled out night after night under the klieg lights and her pregnant teenage daughter shamelessly instrumentalized for political purposes — deserve, to a unique extent among political women, to rank as so “real”? Because the Republicans, very clearly, believe that real people are idiots. This disdain for their smarts shows up in the whole way they’ve cast this race now, turning a contest over economic and foreign policy into a culture war of the Real vs. the Elites. It’s a smoke and mirrors game aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the party’s tax policies have helped create an elite that’s more distant from “the people” than ever before. And from the fact that the party’s dogged allegiance to up-by-your-bootstraps individualism — an individualism exemplified by Palin, the frontierswoman who somehow has managed to “balance” five children and her political career with no need for support — is leading to a culture-wide crack-up. I'm still a little confused by the whole "Hillary supporters for Palin" thing, though.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (82396)	9/5/2008 2:39:24 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 543012

Personally I think the McCain as maverick reformer thing is very contrived Absolutely! But it could sell to the electorate, most of whom are big picture voters, keep things simple, and make rather emotional or 'gut' voting decisions.