Sarah Palin is what the McCain camp has badly needed: an attack dog who can be deployed against Obama. She slides the stiletto in without either losing her femininity or coming across as catty, and given that she’s married to an eskimo, it’s going to be hard to fit her into the narrative of conservative closet racists trying to perpetuate white domination.
Now, wait a doggone minute here:
This whole identity-politics thing has gotten out of hand, when marrying “first dude” Todd Palin is considered an act of tolerance.