yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 7/6/2009
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Ross Douthat on Sarah Palin :
That last statistic is a crucial one. Palin’s popularity has as much to do with class as it does with ideology. In this sense, she really is the perfect foil for Barack Obama. Our president represents the meritocratic ideal — that anyone, from any background, can ...
abcnews.go.com - 7/7/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
After her bombshell announcement Friday that she was
resigning as governor of Alaska 18 months before the...
end of her first term, and questions about her political future ricocheting from Alaska to Washington D.C., Sarah Palin packed it up, traveled ...
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Sarah Palin Speaks to ABC News
adn.com - 7/5/2009
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adn.com —
A listing of known ethics complaints filed against
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin: 1. July 28, 2008: Alaska...
lawmakers launched an investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his ...
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Ethics complaints filed against Palin: Gov. Sarah Palin
corner.nationalreview.com - 7/6/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
Far be it from me to suggest that
Sarah Palin should be or is likely to be...
our next president. She has not shown the excellence of cognition or of judgment that would recommend her ahead of other possible candidates, nor does her path to the ...
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Who the Hell Do They Think They Are?
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Sarah Palin: Working Class Hero? (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Anyway, as it turns out, Palin is part of the ivory-tower degreed elite, herself, and educational attainment doesn't really sync up with Palin support. ...
Palin And Class
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Yglesias counters Douthat. So does Freddie DeBoer.
If it’s a tribe, how come you can’t be born into it?
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... , but alas, after reading Matt’s rejoinder, I’m forced to jump into the game. Matt singles out this quote from Ross’s attempt to play the Palin-the-victim card. ...
Talkin' Bout Real
Bitch. Ph.D. —
... in the New York Times last Sunday about Sarah Palin. Douthat argued that the failure of Sarah Palin's political career was a failure of the "democratic ideal," which is apparently that "anyone can grow up to be a success story without going to Columbia or Harvard." I don't know if I can make a pithy statement about what the "democratic ideal" is, but whatever it is, it sure as hell ain't that. Yglesias pointed out why Douthat's asserted class divide didn't make sense (with bonus charts!). ...
How dare you get 5 more minutes of sunshine a day than me?
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... . A few weeks ago, Matt pointed out that conservatives like Ross Douthat are slicing up the differences that allow someone to have a leg-kicking full-on right wing resentment temper tantrum over mightily thin if they’re really going to kick up dust over the state university vs. Ivy League thing. But Matt and the NY Times Douchebag have had a real lapse in imagination compared to this finance major at UT. He’s realized that the real gulf between Real ...
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