Palin: "a backwoods polar-bear-strangling woman"

A snarky snobby take on Palin by a nattering nabob in the British Spectator:

What possessed McCain to take a punt on Palin?

Ah, just when you pro-Republican monkeys were beginning to think that John McCain was looking a pretty good bet, he goes and chooses a backwoods polar-bear-strangling Britney Spears manqué as a running mate.

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McCain and his people will have sat themselves down and made a checklist of stuff their candidate was lacking but which might be provided by a congenial running mate. Youth and beauty, for starters. Also, a bit of vigorous, libertarian, unreconstructed stop-whining-you-pussies visceral anti-intellectual right-wingness to cheer the party faithful.

Well, I'll take a backwoods polar-bear-strangling woman over some smarmy limp-wristed academic as VP anyday. The nattering nabobs just don't get it, do they?

PS I really enjoy the Spectator. Most of its writers (like Melanie Phillips) are terrific but there are one or two creeps.