'Her greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman,' wrote Wendy Doniger, a professor at the University of Chicago. 'Having someone who looks like you and behaves like them,' said Gloria Steinem, 'who looks like a friend but behaves like an adversary, is worse than having no one.'"

The article at Commentary is worth reading.

One more excerpt:

"She was, the Left-leaning Christopher Hitchens insisted, 'a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.' The Right-leaning David Brooks called Palin 'a fatal cancer to the Republican party' because her inclination “is not only to scorn liberal ideas but to scorn ideas entirely.”

Palin never actually boasted of ignorance or explicitly scorned learning or ideas. Rather, the implicit charge was that Palin’s failure to speak the language and to share the common points of reference of the educated upper tier of American society essentially rendered her unfit for high office.

This form of intellectual elitism is actually fairly new in America, though it has been a dominant feature of European society since World War II. It is not as exclusive or as anti-democratic as cultural elitism is in other countries, because entry to the American intellectual elite is, in principle, open to all who pursue it. And pursuing it is not as difficult as it once was, at least for the middle class. Indeed, most of this elite’s prominent members hail from middle-class origins and not from traditional bastions of American privilege and wealth. They can speak of growing up in Scranton, even as they raise their noses at dirty coal and hunting season."

Thanks, Execupundit.

Update:  Comments from Hot Air.  Lookit.  I have no problem with the article.  Palin needs glib lessons BUT she has the basic instincts all right.  Those are the building blocks.  We've had two Bush's (nice men), Bob Dole and John McCain.  Not a single conservative.  Palin needs to get her chops over the next few years and that doesn't include listening to David Brooks or any other Washington insiders.  The leader will be a governor who gets it.  Go Sarah: