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Linking this great post by James V. DeLong, a better example of a Harvard Law grad. "We need more Palins, not fewer."

Sarah Palin and the Dysfunctional Political Class

The frenetic hostility to Sarah Palin, even by many on the Republican side, is unnerving, because her qualifications to be president are objectively better than those of almost anyone who has been on the national ticket over the past decade.

A reasonable conclusion is that these qualifications are precisely the cause of the hostility. To admit to the reality that the dominant political class, including the MSM and the punditocracy of both parties, has been giving us abysmal presidential candidates, to accept that a hockey mom plucked from small-town Alaska is better than the best that the political class can come up with, would require recognition of the terrible truth that the system has become deeply dysfunctional. Doing this would force our political elites to look into an abyss of serious questions about the functioning of our democracy. Palin creates a cognitive dissonance so intense that it simply cannot be accepted.

There's many examples, comparative contrasts, used in this essay: George Bush, Al Gore, Dick Cheney. And Barack Obama.

Go forth and read it, whether or not you are a fan of Sarah Palin. Because you are a thinker of politics, or you wouldn't be reading this.

This essay is an exposé of our American Politburo, those who are now deciding for us who should and should not represent us, and how 'insider trading' between the punditocracy and the 'chosen few' in the Beltway forms with force our public opinions.

Do you know of anyone who bashes Sarah Palin who can give lucid reasons for their hatreds, formed from their own thoughts and not those fed to them by the pundits who serve the 'inside the beltway' crowd that makes up our 'betters'?

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