If the shoe fits
“The Governor of Alaska gets our girls-just-wanna-have-fun juices flowing, we blogged three weeks back during the rumor-revved hours and minutes leading up to John McCain’s announcement of his VP choice, even as members of the fuddy-duddy community counseled a “safe” pick. Now we’re getting some insight into what makes those fuddy-duddies tick. “Clearly, a small but influential number of conservatives — almost exclusively from the New York-Washington axis which we will term the ‘Northeast Corridor’ — could not comprehend Sarah Palin or what she represents, any more than the liberal-left could,” writes J.R. Dunn in The American Thinker …
Those Northeast Corridor conservatives need to get out more — beyond their Pauline Kael bubble — like businessman Jay Randhawa of the San Diego firm that markets the “very edgy, very hip, very street” Naughty Monkey shoes favored by Sarah Palin. “He was surprised to learn that Gov. Palin was introduced as Mr. McCain’s vice-presidential choice wearing a red pair of peep-toe pumps with 3-inch heels,” reports the WSJ, but instead of staring in incomprehension, he saw an opportunity …