The culture war aspect of the Palin candidacy IMHO is more about small towns than it is about class in terms of consumption habits. Palin is saying that she is involved in politics the way that people in small towns and other ordinary people get involved. Wasilla may not have so many people, but it isn’t 50 miles from anywhere the way an iconic small town is. It seems more like an exurb, but the people in exurbs think that they are living away from the corruption of the city. The real deceit is making this suburban environment stand in for a small town. The Democrats may not want to risk condescending to suburbs by pointing this out.

Terrible joke: if Palin has these European habits it is another hint that she knows about foreign policy.

I hope Brady can come back this year. Boston.com has several reports that he has torn his ACL.

It’s also about the single trait that most marks the fundamentalist right: the end justifies the means. In the immediate sense it means the deceit of saying you just want to teach some tarted-up creationism called “intelligent design” alongside of evolution. But it ultimately extends to everything and is apparent in every facet of the way they govern. It’s a future of Palins and Goodlings shepherding us into a world of war and peonage.

The weekend was discouraging, and that was before the polling. The fix is in.

Bob in HI