Paglia, an iconoclastic professor, self-proclaimed atheist, social commentator, and declared supporter of Barack Obama, has interesting -- and appreciative -- things to say about Sarah Palin. An excerpt:
The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month
would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal
journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy
jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these
alleged humanitarians stank up the place. . .
The hysterical emotionalism and eruptions of amoral malice at the
arrival of Sarah Palin exposed the weaknesses and limitations of
current feminism. But I am convinced that Palin's bracing mix of male
and female voices, as well as her grounding in frontier grit and
audacity, will prove to be a galvanizing influence on aspiring
Democratic women politicians too, from the municipal level on up. Palin
has shown a brand-new way of defining female ambition -- without losing
femininity, spontaneity or humor. She's no pre-programmed wonk of the
backstage Hillary Clinton school; she's pugnacious and self-created,
the product of no educational or political elite -- which is why her
outsider style has been so hard for media lemmings to comprehend. And
by the way, I think Tina Fey's witty impersonations of Palin have been
fabulous. But while Fey has nailed Palin's cadences and charm, she
can't capture the energy, which is a force of nature.