At last we've got a reasonable, intelligent, and well thought-out consideration of Sarah Palin from the environs of E.35th St. and uptown.Kathryn Jean Lopez has, in a few hundred words posted on Friday's NRO, succeeded in saying more about Palin and her effect on current politics than any other commentator associated with the Manhattan conservative bunker crowd. While she's come nowhere near to accomplishing what she set out to do, which is to dam the torrent pouring through the Palin-shaped hole punched in elitist conservatism, it's still an effort worth reading, if only to learn how a level-headed writer deals with a topic this explosive. Lopez begins by pointing out that she herself is no elitist. She goes on to delineate exactly what Palin has contributed to the 2008 campaign so far. Lopez admires Palin, while confessing that she still has to grit her teeth on occasion. This is fair analysis, well above the "Palin is a cancer" comments of the core northeastern...(Read Full Post)