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The Stupid Party

By The Daily Dish

Nov 10 2008, 7:41 AM ET

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From Kathleen Parker's contribution to Slate's forum on the future of conservatism:

Palin covered her inadequacies with folksy charm and by drumming up a class war, turning her audiences not just against elites but against the party’s own educated members. The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley Jr. was handed over to Joe Six-Pack. Know-nothingness was no longer a stigma, but a badge of honor.

Larison chimes in here.

(Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty.)



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