Even Conservatives Are Asking Palin to Leave the Race

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Sarah Palin is  scaring even those who initially supported her.

Jonathan Zimmerman Article

Sarah Palin and  the Assault on Merit
From near the end of the article:

“But here’s the larger point: in all of these debates, both sides embraced the idea of merit itself. The dispute lay in the measurement of ability, not in its significance. Nobody questioned whether skill matters, or whether society should recognize and reward it.

Nobody, that is, until this election cycle. In the smiling face of Sarah Palin, we see something fresh and truly remarkable in American history: the anti-merit candidate.

Some people have gamely tried to depict Palin as a kind of Jeffersonian natural aristocrat, a sharp diamond plucked out of the Alaskan rough. More commonly, though, they have embraced her for her lack of special talent, ability, or knowledge. There’s nothing special about Sarah Palin, and that’s precisely what is so new–and so special–about her.

And that brings us back to “elitism,” which Palin’s defenders inevitably invoke whenever anyone questions her qualifications. The very charge shows how far we have strayed from the meritocratic ideal. It ignores the difference between deserved and undeserved elitism, suggesting that any claim to high status is somehow suspect. And it makes a mockery of our entire government, implying that anyone among us is good enough to lead it.”

Teachers College Record, Date Published: September 22, 2008 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 15383, Date Accessed: 9/26/2008 2:29:42 PM

The Great Schlepp…Now We’re Talking!

Go check out this positive (and fun) way to get involved and make a difference, one family member at a time!

(thanks to hockeymomtoo for the link!)

For Those Who Do Watch TV…

I hope that the 99 percent of this country that does watch TV saw these clips Katie Couric (who stepped up to the plate, I have to say) conducted with Sarah Palin in New York this week. Here’s Sarah Palin on foreign policy and the economy. It’s really too, too much to even believe.