That Disdain for Palin

By Christopher Chantrill:

Now that the left’s McCarthyite attack on Sarah Palin has subsided, she merely has to suffer the disdain of the intellectual elite. Even James Taranto, admitted high-school dropout, damns her with faint praise.

This is nothing new. The nostrils of the educated class have always twitched at populist conservative candidates for president. Voters of a certain age will remember the disdain for Candidate Ronald Reagan.

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Once you realise Washington’s political class [left and right] is a club you will understand the dynamics at work to marginalise and eliminate the Palins, Bachmans and Wests.

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