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If they won’t recognize that, they won’t recognize anything. Living in a Northeast that is steadily combining aspects of a Third-World state and a suburban mall, they have lost sight of what America actually is. Huge gaps exist in their knowledge of the country. In the same way that liberals view the U.S. a racist, militarist monolith, the Northeast Corridor coterie view it as a cultural wasteland populated by backwoodsmen, halfwits who need to be guided by an enlightened but aloof elite.

This passage struck me as did your post. Tonight I was watching O'Reilly and he brought on some 'coach' to analyze Palin's hair and voice and delivery and all this crap while she did her interview. This really bugged me as a west coast gal that was born and raised middle class (at best) in a rural western state and town. I went on to live in a whole other world and class as a result of my own efforts and although I worked on presentation when I felt it could best achieve my objectives, I also actively resisted allowing 'them' to define how I looked, the strength of my voice, the passionate displays and the honest, frank style of delivery all of which had help bring me to these people's world and also what made me stand out from them.

I mention this story as I know Sarah will want to refine things for herself if she feels they will best achieve whatever objective she has, but I also know it is the becoming of these things and the compliance of them as recommended by these flaccid, outlines of human beings that I hope my fellow western conservative resists as she sees fit.

It is bucking against these haughty east coast standards that has allowed the most powerful and impactful conservatives to come from the west. Sarah does not need to be 'guided to enlightenment by the elite" I am sure this is why we love her that much more. Sarah brings a whole new class to Washington full and rich and earnest with her desire to represent the people. The ones with the babies, and the snow machines, and the guns, and the trucks, and the God :-).

I have the odd feeling that the article should have been entitled “On Peggy Noonan’s Calves rides the Old Guard Republicans”..

Fascinating that Dunn is using the New Media to expose the “Northeast Corridor” for what it is, a sort of Nancy Boy gaggle of weak kneed writers and talkers who are more then willing to knife anyone they do not support in the back be such stabbing be in print, or with microphones inadvisedly left on.

Tonight I was watching O’Reilly and he brought on some ‘coach’ to analyze Palin’s hair and voice and delivery and all this crap while she did her interview.

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I saw that segment and thought that she must have been an Obama supporter, she had such negative feelings about Sarah’s positive qualities. I wrote to the O’Reilly show to voice a protest. Sarah Palin is a unique individual, and that “consultant” wanted to turn her into a clone of the Fox News readerbabes.

Last night she was not wearing her signature hairstyle! but instead had the wispy, straight down around her face look that is so ‘popular’ right now.

Guess what! She did not look as good as she does with her upswept style.

If coaches make her doubt herself, she will not appear as the positive person we have seen so far, when she give interviews and joins in debates.