The selection of Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential candidate has revealed a serious chasm in conservatism, a chasm separating conservative elites – opinion leaders, pundits, spokesmen -- from the vast population of center-right Americans they purport to represent. If this is the choice of the conservative base, one said “Then we need a new base.†(We’ll leave names out of this for the moment, lest this deteriorate into an “I never liked him anyway†discussion. The problem is systemic, and not limited to a few individuals.) “It’s over,†another insisted of Palin’s candidacy (the later “explanation†for this remark was,...
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