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I fear that what many are seeing (even FReepers) is a provincial accent (JFK had one, too), a less than Ivy League education (Reagan didn't have one, either) and what the mainstream media wants them to see.

Actually, what you say is true more for her supporters than her detractors. Most Palin fans like her primarily because of her provincial background and lack of contact with teh nation's elite. I've seen many Freeper Palin worhsipers admit as much.

I don't think any Palin skeptics on FR care about her accent or where she went to school. I certainly don't. My concern his her lack of any coherent political philosophy or substantive ideas about governing.

YOu don't need an Ivy education or a New England accent to impress me. I care about the ideas in your head, not about your accents or what's written on your resume.

What is it that you find so compelling about her?

“Actually, what you say is true more for her supporters than her detractors”

ROFL!
Now why don't you get back to me when you get back to reality?

“Most Palin fans like her primarily because of her provincial background and lack of contact with the nation's elite”

I support her because she fought corruption in her own party(when her party lost touch with the masses who put them in power, and became corrupt), took on the establishment, and whupped them, putting plenty of them in orange jump suits in jail, and governed as a fiscal conservative, and never lost sight of the fact that she was there to serve the people who put her there. The congress in Washington need to go to Sarah Palin for lessons on how to govern properly.

Gee. I've encountered a lot of FReepers who were put off by her accent, the assertion she "didn't have a good education, even the fact she seemed to like country music. If you're not one of those, power to you.

I don't think any Palin skeptics on FR care about her accent or where she went to school. I certainly don't.

You don't need an Ivy education or a New England accent to impress me. I care about the ideas in your head, not about your accents or what's written on your resume.

Ah, good for you. But others do.

My concern his her lack of any coherent political philosophy or substantive ideas about governing.

What is it that you find so compelling about her?

Obviously, we're not listening to the same person. To me, she's Reagan in a skirt. The same openess, the same honesty, the same philosophy -- uncomplicated and resolutely American. And I've been a Reagan fan since 1964.

Philosophically, being the President of the United States is pretty simple. First, national security. Second, let the country work.