I watched Sarah Palin's speech last night - as well as a ton of Left-Wing garbage from various sources. Here is an interesting article about Sarah from England: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do0404 .xml <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/04/do040 4.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_05092008> &DCMP=EMC-new_05092008 This is from the www.Telegraph.co.uk by Janet Daley comparing the current Leftist criticism of Sarah Palin to that once aimed at Margaret Thatcher. "Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was dismissed as a "grocer's daughter" by people who called themselves egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim to represent 'ordinary people'. "What the metropolitan sophisticates failed to understand in the 1980s when Thatcher won election after election is even more the case in the US: most (and I do mean most) ordinary people actually believe in the basic decencies, the "small-town values", of family, marital fidelity, and personal responsibility. They believe in and honour them - even if they do not manage to uphold them. "Middle America - of which Alaska is spiritually, if not geographically, a part - builds its life around those ideals and regards commonplace moral lapses as part of the eternal struggle to be good. "The life of small-town USA is based on the principles of those Protestant colonial settlers who founded the nation: hard work, self-improvement, personal faith and family devotion. Mrs Palin speaks to and for them in a way that patronising "liberal" elitists find infuriating." Good stuff! Lawrence Helm San Jacinto