I predict that Sarah didn’t do so well with women.
I have a friend who was married to a woman like Sarah Palin. She is attractive and can be charming. She plays well. Actually she plays well with men, but women don’t like her much. The problem is she seems to be constantly thinking about what she says and how she says it, and how she is coming across to people. She seems to be watching herself with a third eye, trying to make sure she is constantly presenting a pretty picture. She paints tableaus, but beneath the surface is something completely different and women catch on to that faster than men. (There I said it.) Men catch on after awhile, but it always takes them longer to see through her act.
Just as women did not like John McCain’s condescending attitude last Friday, I predict that the numbers will show that women didn’t like Sarah. She winked and flirted and told folksy stories, but I watched the dial groups and she wasn’t getting much over with women. She reminded us of the mean girls, the girls in Junior High who the teachers and the boys liked, but in the halls between classes they were the girls that ridiculed people. They were the girls that laughed in the face of the non-football playing guy who had the audacity to ask them out. They were the girls that bent over in laughter at the quiet girl’s new dress.
Sarah Palin seems to be one of those fake people. She has a sixth sense for shallowness, but beneath the smiles and the "aw shucks" attitude is the woman who shoots wolves from helicopters, and to whom popularity is so much more important that real issues. It also seems to me that the male "talking heads" in the MSM didn’t get it. They didn’t get it because being adorable and barely bright worked for them, but I don’t think it will work for American women.