Crunchy Con explains why he thinks Sarah Palin has so energized the GOP.
Reading this story, I understood more than anything else I’ve read about Sarah Palin why she’s made that gut connection with so many Americans. She really is from a small town, and does not seem to have forgotten that. Think about the powerful message this sends to small-town, rural and working-class voters. Think about what it says about the place she comes from internally, and how she interprets the world. This is a woman who goes to the small-town beauty shop to trade hunting stories with her girlfriends, and to pray with them through their crises — and she didn’t stop going there when she became governor of the state.
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