When I was growing up in San Francisco I learned that conservatives were uneducated, closed minded, stupid, overly religious, greedy, self centered and angry people. Now that I have recovered I see that all of that perspective was taught to make liberals feel superior to conservatives. Liberals have transformed their belief structure into a religious in its own right. Now they are applying it to Palin. She is conservative, therefore she is stupid. Biden is liberal therefore he is smart.

There was a time when Paglia's polemics ticked me off, and I wrote in. After awhile, they became so perfunctory and inane I stopped taking notice. And now, something new; they've started making me laugh.

Thanks Camille, you've brightened my morning.

You can always count on Camille to evoke cognitive dissonance in the liberal lock steppers. She is an unapologetic independent thinker. She must also be thick skinned. Look at the near hysterical adhominem attacks the illiberal hypocrites hurl at her.

I should've known she'd plug something! Thank's for mentioning that. I find it hard sometimes to closely read every line of hers (my brain is saying 'teh stupid, it burns!!').

I truly hope that Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party. Then it will surely join the Whigs in the ashcan of American History, where rubbish belongs.

Dear Camille:

I just read your response to Philip Steelman. Under normal circumstances, I would agree, as you stated, that "the new president would have time to reflect and to absorb State Department briefing books. Surely the standard, prudent diplomatic protocols would kick into action," in your discourse about Neville Chaimberlain. However, these are not normal circumstances and Obama has proven that he would not follow the briefing books, I believe.

As evidence, I cite the conversation Obama had with Iraq Foreign Minister Zebari, wherein he engaged in foreign diplomacy and interjected himself in treaty negotiations. Never mind the fact only the President has the power to make Treaties and the Senator was not on this trip under the authority of the president for the purpose of treaty negotiations, as they were already substantially under way and near completion. Some would say that action was not only illegal but treasonous. But, in reviewing the Foreign Minister's direct quote..."He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington," Zebari said in an interview...but in my opionion, he was clearly suggesting that he and the Congress circumvent the Constitution for political purposes, as the NY Post stated below on Sept. 15, as follows:

"Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion."

"However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open." Zebari says."

Is this behavior indicative of a man who will follow state department protocol? I think not. Even if he thought he was doing the right thing, clearly delaying troop withdrawals in the back room while telling the public he wants an early withdrawal, and the concomitant additional risk to American life and treasure presented by the delay, for political purposes, is a travesty. Likely, and I agree to your earlier statements in the response, that his being "drenched in a reflexive anti-Americanism" leaves him in a position of thinking his actions are normal and responsible. That is the mindset fostered by, and fomented in, Senator Obama's past experiences and past and current relationships and alliances. We cannot have this default mindset in any President.

I found this via the link from Real Clear Politics. I remember this bull crone from 25 years ago, when she almost mattered, but I thought she had been resting comfortably in the Alzheimer's unit for some time.

I confess I never figured her out. Is her shtick some kind of pan-sexual, it's-all-in-the-genitals explanation for everything?

She seems to want nothing more than a three-way with Todd and Sarah. But why not with Sebelius or Collins or even Hutchinson?

Hey, Marsha Blackburn's pretty hot, too.

I think she's at the end of the day it's just the celebrity. She'd probably rather see LeBron James in the White House than Olympia Snowe. Basically she's a headline-chasing star-fucker and always has been.

Wow, I can't believe someone so 'esteemed' as the author was so easily duped by a millionaire beauty contestant!

Since when is making a concerted effort to never practice what you preach 'feminist'? Does feminism now condone women being forced to raise their uncle's rape babies? Is being an uneducated, unwed teenage mother really so empowering? If so, then I guess calling working class men 'Joe Sixpack' is now supposed to be some kind of complement.

Methinks the sexy librarian get-up got to Ms. Paglia!

Ms. Paglia, I agree with you on Gov. Palin's smarts, what scares me is her "Willie Stark-Gomer Pyle" act, gol-ly, and it is all an act. Show me anyone raised by two educators with grammer like hers and I'll show you a fake. The neocons jumped all over Hillary about her fake southern drawl, and rightly so, she's a much smarter woman than to play that card.

What my real worry is; who forced this woman on McCain, body language is everything, and Cindy and John's tell the tale, not their pick. So who could pull this off? Big oil, Cheney, there is a whole list, plus her and Todd's connection with the AIP, to make Alaska an independent country, with all that oil! It's curious'er and curious'er, you betcha!

And Sexism is alive and well in reverse, you pick on this poor woman and it's chauvinistic, not just a simple question of what is her real position on a subject.

What's a Sarah Palin???

is not the new standard for feminism. It is obvious that the care of her younger children is not designated to her spouse but to her two elder daughters. Her ability to communicate, or not to, is very different from the Italian-American immigrants you and I grew up with. They were learning a new language; Palin is born into a native language that she cannot speak because the thought process is either not there or it is jumbled. With that on board, expecting her to, if not be a "policy wonk" like Hillary, have a basic understanding about the basic issues of government is not too much to ask. Problem is, on every issue except pushing a pipeline from Alaska to Canada, as mayor and Governor of Alaska, she has not demonstrated any interest in health care, education, environment, employment. Granted, they may not have the same issues of limited revenue, but the water and sewage management is in really bad shape in Wasilla and is one reason the lake in her back yard is a "dead lake". The native Yu'pik who live on the tundra have no running water and no sewage, no garbage management and a box of Cheerios cost $8; they have never seen her. She is a phoney in every respect except her radical ideology, flippantly and dangerously exposed this week for 2 days in a row on the campaign trail. She incites mob mentality to hatred and violence. She can do this very easily and finds her thoughts and her words easily because it comes from what she believes she knows. She is a dangerous ignorant like so many in history who, generations later after the damage has been done, are reviled for what they are.