William Kristol has an outstanding piece today in the Weekly Standard on Governor Palin, what she means for the conservative movement and why she is feared by the left. Here’s an excerpt:
A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington–the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.
That spectre has a name–Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who’s a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who’s broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who’s a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who’s a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who’s a leader.
Governor Palin is an exciting pick, a proud conservative with more executive experience than Sens. Obama and Biden combined. As Josh Kahn noted at The Next Right, the GOP has a deep bench.
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Since Kristol is himself part of the NY-DC elite (albeit not the putative “liberal elite”), this is amusing.
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