Palin wasn't chosen to pick off disgruntled Hillary supporters (though she will to a degree).

She was chosen to pick off Democratic, blue collar men.

Think, people, think.

EBD, in the comments;



But then, there's actually the matter of what men like, as opposed to what they want. It seems to me, in my experience, that a lot of women seem to have no sense of what men actually appreciate in women, and that this misunderstanding is based on a specifically-promoted view that suits women on the left.

A couple of years ago I was watching the Canadian women's hockey team in a public...house, and I remember how the women in the room were surprised by the barking intensity of cheering coming from the men. It made perfect sense to the guys, of course; when we're watching, say, NHL hockey, what gets us riled up is when a Glenn Anderson creases the scalp of some board-smashing goon who thought he had #9 lined up, but the canny fisherman's son slip-slides past Mongo and drives to the net with the puck. Well, that pleasure is doubled when you see a big handsome Canadian gal, with her family name right there on her jersey, fighting her way out of the corner with the puck -- it just makes the monkey-brain bonus-light flash a little more frantically.

It's a different and far more deeply-rotted kind of "you go girl!" than when some putative feminist is savaging a strong woman like Sarah Palin -- or Kate -- with the assumed support of other women, and on behalf of some putatively oppressed sisteren-en.

When a woman steps forward and faces down Moloch on everyone's behalf it's actually more inspiring --*to men* -- than if some suit-guy is doing it.