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Palin's Appeal
Ross Douthat —
Yglesias thinks it's all in (male) right-wing pundits' heads: Now the simple fact of the matter is that Palin is an unpopular figure.
There's no sense arguing about this. Likewise, the polls show
unambiguously that most people who watched her debate performance were
unimpressed. And yet among male conservative pundits .... gushing praise was extremely common. But before this loose talk of a Palin 2012 campaign
takes off, people need to realize that her appeal seems grounded in the
psychosexual hang-ups of conservative men. Her hyper-unpopularity with ...
Why McCain Will Win
Jon Swift —
... place: "McCain took Palin to his favorite coffee-drinking spot down by a creek and a sycamore tree," she writes. "They talked for more than an hour, and, as Napoleon whispered to Josephine, ‘Voila.’ One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to reckon that McCain was smitten." In The New Yorker Jane Mayer describes how a group of influential conservative men became putty in Palin's hands after they met her on a cruise. Rich Lowry may have articulated it best when he wrote after the debate, "I'm sure I'm not the only male in ...
