TW: Yet which one gets pushed as our next VP by John McCain, not the leader but the Fembot. Not all small town mayors (male or female, Democrat or Republican) are carictures of vacuity as embodied by Sarah "Fembot" Palin. Many are pillars of competence and common sense. The Fembot and her cynical handlers have merely given the position a bad name.
From Roger Cohen at NYT:
"She’s Midwestern practical to Palin’s rabble-rousing frontierswoman. Common sense interests her more than aw-shucks nonsense. She prefers balanced budgets to unbalanced attacks. Presley — no relation to Elvis — runs the capital of the American heartland. Branson, population 7,500
...I came to Branson and its mayor with my liberal prejudices and was disarmed. Presley reminded me of my ex-mother-in-law, another brisk, pragmatic, funny, no-nonsense Republican Midwesterner with little tolerance for debt, delinquency, dumbness or dereliction of duty. She also reminded me of a great American virtue: getting on with it.
And it dawned on me that Palin, with her vile near-accusations of treason against Barack Obama, her cloying doggone hymns to small-town U.S.A., her with-us-or-against-us refrain, is really an impostor.
She’s the representative of a kind of last-gasp Republicanism, of an exhausted party, whose proud fiscal conservatism and patriotism have given away to scurrilous fear-mongering and ideological confusion.
It’s a party in need of a break from power after the Bush years in order to re-learn what Presley represents: the can-do, down-to-earth, honest, industrious, spend-what-you-earn civility of the heartland. That civility has been usurped into Palin’s trash talk.
...A speech four years ago brought Obama to the national stage: 'There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America. There’s the United States of America.'
I found that spirit in Branson, the last place I expected. And it gave me hope, in these sobering days, for a nation aching to unite behind a new start and uplifting endeavor"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/opinion/16Cohen.html?scp=3&sq=roger%20cohen&st=cse
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