Douthat breaks out the Wahhhh!mbulance on Palin
As to be expected, the conservative reaction to Caribou Barbie’s incoherent resignation is one of typical conservative perpetual victimhood and an array of absent facts. It’s amazing with these people how their figures’ failings, corruption and incompetence are always someone else’s fault. Remember, personal responsibility is a big thing to these conservatives (narrowly defined, of course, as “not wanting to pay for some fat-assed black girl with five kids and five different dads of those kids who buy high-end vodka with their food stamps” – but I’m pretty sure it stops there).
Abridged Douthat: They made up all sorts of stuff about her, but if all those things about her batshit insane religious views and such were true, that’s good, too.
Better Balloon Juice:
Nothing annoys me more than the conservative myth that to be an ordinary American you have to be a moron. Although it’s probably just a corollary of the myth that to be an ordinary American you have to be conservative.
I’d also add that one has to be an unsophisticated moron, as iceburg lettuce, Twinkies, Hamburger Helper, and Old Milwaukee are the only proper items for consumption for True Red-Blooded Americans™. If you eat arugula or something John Boehner can’t pronounce, you’re waging class warfare.
