This article from the Wall Street Journal really puts a finger on what's unsettling about Palin. It also gets to the heart of what's wrong with politics in America today. Thanks to the Bush administration, much of the Republican party wants to look at America as slices, constituencies with common attributes, rather than looking at the whole. Granted, different constituencies will always be used as campaign tactics, but can government afford to work like that? I don't think so.
The system of government in this country is designed to work around consensus and compromise. At the end of the day, all the different slices of America need to work together more than they work to defeat each other. The kind of fractured, partisan politics which have been the hallmark of the Bush administration need to end, one way or another.
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