11-23-10 (Eric Thayer for Getty)
Tunku Varadarajan over at The Daily Beast seems to have figure out that part of Sarah Palin’s appeal to the hoi polloi is her openness and honesty, and her lack of ruling class credentials.
Since Palin’s political attraction isn’t immediately comprehensible to the ruling class, she terrifies that class, for whom there is no torture worse than not being able to comprehend. I’m convinced that her run for the presidency is her way of baiting these people—her enemies.
In effect, she’s a strong, beautiful, ungovernable woman who is scaring the pants off a whole lot of people—scaring the pants, to be sure, off Frank Rich, and off dear old Barbara Bush.
