I would respectfully submit to the interlocutor above that Sarah Palin currently has an approval rating in her native state that exceeds by more than 1000% the current approval ratings of both President Bush and the U.S. Congress. What can this suggest but that, in her gubernatorial capacity, Palin has accomplished enough to earn the approbation of her fellow citizens?
(I can already hear the rejoinder, though - something to the tune of "There's Nothing in Alaska" sprinkled with a generous portion of "Alaskans Are All Knuckle-Dragging Rubes" and "[Insert Phony-Baloney Palin Scandal Here]." If you want to pinpoint the source of the populist strain in GOP politics, this is it. Denigrating large swaths of the American population is the surest way to inspire ordinary people to be belligerently proud of their ordinariness.)
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(I can already hear the rejoinder, though - something to the tune of "There's Nothing in Alaska" sprinkled with a generous portion of "Alaskans Are All Knuckle-Dragging Rubes" and "[Insert Phony-Baloney Palin Scandal Here]." If you want to pinpoint the source of the populist strain in GOP politics, this is it. Denigrating large swaths of the American population is the surest way to inspire ordinary people to be belligerently proud of their ordinariness.)