It's The Class War, Stupid!

Neo-Neocon writes that a big reason why the left hates Sarah Palin is that “she’s a woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Or at least, that’s the way she’s been perceived“:

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.

She hunts. She fishes. Hubby’s a Marlboro man, minus the cigarettes. She’s a working woman but not an oppressed “worker.” She probably even shops at Walmart and listens to country music.

I’m old enough to remember when a working class hero was something to be.