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    The Quasi-Cave

    Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 9:36 PM | By Hanna Rosin
    Meghan: Yes! She is a George Saunders character, with her Simuhair and Todd "the Lovemeister" Palin. But there's one important difference. Saunders' characters are drowning in some ocean of adspeak they can't find the source of and that leaves them helpless. Last night, I felt like Palin was finally master of her own jargon. In those TV interviews she kept straying into her own back alleys of weird speak. But in the debate, she tamed her folksiness into recognizable clichés (maaa-verick, Washington outsider, soccer mom). Ultimately, I think that's why conservatives were comforted by her performance. It's not that she had learned how to pronounce Ahmadinejad or memorized a health care statistic or two. It's that she suddenly sounded like a familiar political type: the folksy populist, Mrs. Smith, Ross Perot with an updo. Its amazing: In just a month, she's turned herself from a genuine outsider into a stock character on the Beltway scene. Sarah, welcome to Washington!
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