Palin chooses to identify with the "commoner"

Sarah Palin is an intriguing individual. No one inspires more hatred (well, no woman) than Palin: she articulates the position of many American citizens perfectly. This article has insight into her character and her choices of presentation. Palin bashing, the author says, is a form of bonding that the "elite" (who are often stupid themselves) use to feel superior to the rest of the nation.

It may have been Palin’s choice to keep her distinctive personal characteristics rather than bury them, including retaining her accent and even celebrating it. I believe it was a choice; a woman with a will as ferocious as hers could easily have altered her speech pattern with a little bit of effort. Just ask Henry Higgins.

Palin refuses to play the usual games in order to be in with the in-crowd. Her speech and mannerisms express her solidity with many of her constituents, the very people the current Democratic Party and its leaders have marginalized and ridiculed (and largely lost), the ones Obama was describing in his “bitter clinger” speech at a Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco, speaking to fellow Democrats when they thought they were talking amongst themselves. The particular demographic Obama was referring to are the people whom many liberal Democrats do not trust or respect — and they most definitely neither trust nor respect Sarah Palin.