Cries that the Democrats have engaged in sexism towards Palin are not misplaced. Palin is also hated for her social conservatism�even by feminists, who acknowledge she�s a woman, but a woman from the wrong side of the issues.
But perhaps even more important to many liberals is that she�s a woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Or at least, that�s the way she�s been perceived.
Forget that she�s a college graduate, with a father who was a teacher. She went to the wrong college�or colleges. She�s a redneck, even if she�s from the far North where the sun hardly shines for half the year. She�s a redneck at heart, don�t you see, with the �mess� of a pregnant daughter and five children herself. How very gross.
If being a redneck at heart means freedom-loving, supportive of gun rights, low taxes, less pork, personal responsibility and smaller government, then count me in too.