They HATE Sarah Palin. This is why.

Kevin Drum from Mother Jones thinks that, after Obama is coronated, Sarah Palin will just shrivel up and blow away. Why? Because smart liberals like Kevin Drum hate her. He writes:

Palin is lazy, ill-informed, contemptuous of policy, and way too convinced that everybody in the country is dazzled by her folksy energy and thousand-watt smile . . . on November 5th she'll disappear to Wasilla for good.

Which is where folks like Kevin Drum wish all us Red Staters would go. They don't get why we love her, and to the degree that they do understand, they are contemptuous of us and our rural stupidity. But this is why we love her, and why they hate her:

Sarah Palin. On the campaign trail. Stopping at Wal-Mart with the secret service to pick up some diapers.

She's one of us, folks. Down to the core. That why the liberal elites hate her so much. They resent the idea of one of us great unwashed clambering over the ivy-covered wall and playing in their playground. And they just can't wait until Sarah--and you, and me--just disappear, so they don't have to be bothered any more.

I think they're going to be waiting a long time.

Update: I Yack More About Sarah Palin and Wal-Mart (and Undecided Voters) at Whassup, Peoples?