Sarah Palin:
Just the other day in New Mexico I saw a sign that said "Ed the dairyman." And at a rally for Senator McCain in Virginia, there was a man named Tito Munoz who owns a small construction business. We can call him "Tito the builder."
And here in this crowd I saw some great placards already. We have "Ann the engineer," we have "Dave the cop."
You know, when I start hearing people shedding their last names, and being identified by their professions, I'm suddenly not thinking of "Thomas the Gentleman Farmer", or "George the General", or "Benjamin the Publisher", or "John the Smuggler", or any of our other Founding Fathers who started this great democracy.
Rather, I'm thinking of "The Girl", in Dr. Zhivago - dedicated to working on a great dam project for the greater progress of the Soviet Union, and totally disinterested in her lineage.
Of course, they don't believe it. But their rapid embrace of such collectivism should make everyone wonder whether they believe anything right now, except their own need to stay in power?