Worse than the educated morons that has been running the US for the last eight years? How can she be?
I have to agree with Helen on this. It's all about class. The insiders are horrified at the possibility some house wife from Alaska will stink up their cocktail parties.
I think it's more that she reminds them of the core of the Republican party. While 'Republican ideas' hide the racism, militarism and all-round vapid stupidity under a thin intellectual veneer - which is exactly what think tanks are paid to do - Palin dispenses with the veneer, and you get the true beating heart of Republicanism neat, with no fine wrapping.
And it's a loathesome thing. I don't think they hate her for being what she is, because in the end she is what they are. What they can't forgive her is not having the good political sense to put PR and marketing before personal ambition.
She's destroying the Reagan illusion and replacing it with directness and honesty.
Ironically we should be grateful to her for that, at least for now - because she's making it much more difficult for Republicanism to be taken seriously by anyone who isn't a racist kook.
