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Just a quick note: Conservative Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute, who once said that "unless you think hard about political questions in our culture, you are liberal by default" and that "you have to think your way out of liberalism" has—you guessed it—denounced Palin. "Enough," she wrote in the City Journal yesterday. "Conservatives should stand for excellence and merit, period. Middle-class status is neither a qualification nor a disqualification; the same goes for economic success."
What I draw from this latest anti-Palin diatribe is 1) Palin's effectively holding up a mirror to the Republican Party, and not everyone likes what they see and 2) a multi-party system with micro-parties for Palin-Republicans, fiscal conservatives, Clinton-Democrats, cheeseeatingsurrendermonkey-ophiles, etc. would be far less problematic then the big-tent two-party system we have now. I wish I didn't have to vote for Democrats who say "socialism" like it's a bad word, I wish Heather Mac Donald, David Brooks, and others didn't have to vote for Republicans who don't live up to their standards of "excellence," and, yes, I wish Palin supporters could back her without having to justify their opinions to people within their own party.
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