Hey Katie, May I Call You Joe? (Wink, Wink)

My boxing days are over, but after the Vice-Presidential Debate last night I allowed myself a couple of upper-cuts—right to the solar plexus.

Because. Because it is so delicious when one of ours, reviled and ridiculed by the Drive-by Media, just socks it to them.

“The next person that winks at me, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to take it after tonight,” said MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

That’s according to Byron York at NRO. Yes, Bob Barnett was counting and Sarah Palin did six winks. As Rosalind said: Not to be endured! (That’s another sophisticated literary allusion.)

Yes, but what about a serious discussion of The Issues?

Good idea. And to do that we cannot do better than quote Good Ole Boy Fred Thompson.

“One of the reasons I feel so good for her, just as a human being,” said former Sen. Fred Thompson, “is I have never seen anybody undergo the ridicule, the slanders and the lies, and the blogosphere and what they’re doing, and breaking into her private email, rumors and things about her, and now, most recently, belittling her, taking little snippets of interviews and laughing at her and satirizing her. Those people ought to be ashamed of themselves[.]

You know, if Sarah Palin were a liberal, say an important professor of Womens Studies, and Republicans did to her what Democrats just did, our liberal friends would be tearing up the pavement. They would be bellowing “McCarthyism” from every TV set, and Katie Couric... Well enough about her.

The delicious thing about the whole business is that Sarah Palin’s folksiness drives our liberal friends absolutely nuts.

And there’s a deep philsophical reason for that. Oh yes. This is not just about an excess of colloquialisms. Sarah Palin’s folksiness changes the subject. All of a sudden we are not talking about liberal things, about racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia, or about the endless parade of victims. All of a sudden we are in middle-class land, where people are assumed to have a basic competence about life. It’s assumed that they follow the rules, go to work, pay their taxes, and look after their families.

The whole point of liberalism is that some expert has to do all that for you.