The Mom and the One By Christopher Chantrill

We know now that the Palin phenomenon is for real.  We can tell because our lefty friends have come up with a new pejorative: "Caribou Barbie."  It joins "neoconservative," invented in the 1960s to describe New York Jewish intellectuals who had been mugged by reality, and "neo-con," invented in the 2000s to account for the sons of the neoconservatives of the 1960s, men who believed in reality even before they were mugged. And who can forget Dorothy Parker on Calvin Coolidge: "weaned on a pickle," or Clark Clifford's "amiable dunce" who won the Cold War.

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