My latest post, in which I talk about the reasons a Palin presidency is not completely implausible, is up at Care2.  An excerpt:

Palin is an outsider’s outsider, far more so than any other Presidential candidate in recent memory.  When folks in rural Indiana see that she’s a former beauty queen who went to five colleges and married a blue-collar snow machine racer, they see one of their own.  It’s no coincidence that she was a guest of honor at last weekend’s Daytona 500:

The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor sped around Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, shaking hands and taking photos with drivers and fans alike before what she called the “all-Americana event.” . . . “This is awesome,” she said. “It’s all-Americana event. Good, patriotic, wonderful event that’s bringing a whole lot of people together. I think this is good for our country.” . . .

“Whether it’s racing cars, dogs, snow machines, it’s an event like this that brings all Americans together,” she said. . . .”We’ve got our snow-machine races up [in Alaska]. This is, of course, on a much greater scale,” she said. “Same type of sport, though, same type of risk-taking, speed-loving all-American event that we participate up north. We love it. You bet.”

Look at that story one more time.  She mentions how American stock car racing is on three separate occasions.  Think that NASCAR fans won’t read that code?  Sarah Palin’s “real Americans” are merely the latest iteration of Nixon’s “silent majority.”

You can read the whole thing here.

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