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Gary Jones nails it with his discussion of speech mannerisms

I dread listening to either Obama or McCain speak (or Bush), and Palin
would be a chore to listen to as well except that I’m used to women who
talk like that. I live among them and do not mistake their mannerisms
for either stupidity or ignorance since I know that they are quite
capable of handing you your pretentious head on a platter if you
presume to dismiss them in such a way.

Read the whole thing, especially the part about women’s liberation.

Update (17 October) KJ Lopez writes some sense about the Palin candidacy in NRO.  My take is that Palin has become the litmus test, not liberal/Democrat vs. conservative/Republican, but statist/Ivy-Leaguer vs. populist/StateU.  Otherwise, why are all the smarty-pants conservative pundits dumping on her?  She sure as hell isn’t any less articulate than Senator Blinky McCain. 

Writing in the Atlantic, Ross Douthat says

So you might think that David Brooks is too taken with Barack Obama’s facility for Reinhold Niebuhr-related jaw-jaw,
and too quick to attack conservatives who don’t share his views on
immigration, say, or the bailout. But if you want Sarah Palin as your
standard-bearer, you need a Brooks, or someone like him, at the table
when her speeches are being written and her policy positions are being
hashed out.

Yeah, in case something comes to mind that really pisses her off, she can lean over and hit Brooks upside the head and say "Knock it off!"

Tip from Mark Steyn at The Corner.