Well, I am getting tired of stories that concern Sarah Palin, but Jack Kelly has a good commentary in the Toledo Blade about all the Palin controversy.
It doesn't really matter about Palin. She was thrust into a situation she was far from prepared for.
But what he says is instructive without regard to that issue.
He points out some things that were written by Princeton Professor Angelo Codevilla:
"The distinctions between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, are being overshadowed by that between what we might call the 'Court Party,' made up of the well-connected who see themselves as potters of the great American clay, and the 'Country Party,' the many more who are tired of being treated as clay."
He goes on to point out:
"People in the Court Party think it proper they should decide what kind of cars the hoi polloi in fly-over country should drive and how much medical care they may have. Theirs is an aristrocracy not of birth but of connections, connections forged mostly by where they went to school. "
He concludes:
"The hoi polloi in fly-over country are watching the self-styled best and brightest ruin the economy while feathering their own nests. If this leads to a revolt at the polls in 2010 and 2012, the hoi polloi are more likely to look for leadership from the person who best exemplifies their values and expresses their anger than to those who, by the Court Party's definition, are more qualified."
How could anyone say it better? My thanks to the good Professor, and to Jack Kelly for bringing him to us.
Go read the whole thing.
With a hat tip to William Katz over at Urgent Agenda.
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