Via Glenn Yuval Levin gives the fairest assessment of the Palin candidacy that I have yet read:
Either way, the Palin moment shed a powerful light on the power, the potential, and the ultimate inadequacy of a conservatism grounded solely in cultural populism. It also exposed the vulnerability of the Left to a challenge to its most cherished claims—as the sole representative of the interests of the working class and the only legitimate path to political power for an ambitious woman.
And, perhaps even more telling, it revealed the unfortunate and unattractive propensity of the American cultural elite to treat those who are not deemed part of the elect with condescension and contumely.
Read the whole thing. I suspect her CPAC speech will be VERY important to see what she will or will not be on the national stage.
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