Culture 11 is a great new site, the first web magazine I have seen worth reading for...gosh, years at least. It's what Dr. Curmudgeon & Co. would be like, I'm sure, if we had more wit, intelligence, style-sense, contacts, and maybe a million or so in venture capital.

Among the good stuff they have is a three-way commentary on Our Sarah, with the great Peter Augustine Lawler weighing in along with a New Republic editor and a paleo-con (who, quite frankly, scares me so much that I reach for my Second Amendment rights and make sure a round is chambered).

Here is what Lawler has to say in entirety:

The choice was based, in part, on a sober calculation about what's required to win the election. But only in part. McCain seems to have been more moved by his perception that she, too, is anti-establishment, incorruptible maverick. He was also convinced that her capabilities soared far above her level of experience—or that she's sort of the opposite of Biden. He clearly thinks of Sarah as the same sort of choice as Joe Lieberman.

What unites Mac and Sarah is that they're anti-bobo (bourgeois bohemian) candidates. Because they have admirable, demanding lives, they don't need to have "lifestyles." Because they're not lost in the "virtual realities" of intellectual fashion or cyberspace, they're able to have real lives. Sarah energizes the "faith and family" vote because of WHO she is, just as honorable Mac energizes the nationalist or national security vote because of WHO he is. The ticket unites the two wings of the Republican party that regard people as much more than just beings with preferences or interest.

McCain picked even better than he knew. His party is in rapid decline because of the aging, decadent, tottering, and corrupt character of its leadership. And it's just as easy to criticize its followership—increasingly old white men with creepy Reagan nostalgia and who still to take their cues from the likes of Rush and O'Reilly.

But Palin represents real, young people with real marriages, real jobs, real families, a real enjoyment for sports, the outdoors, and all the good things of life, real religion, and a real sense of personal responsibility. She sold me when she explained that she was in politics for all the right reasons. Of course a mom joins the PTA, does her best to clean up local government, accepts the call to lead her state, and doesn't hesitate for a moment if her party's presidential candidate needs her help. This remarkable woman, even the mainstream media is admitting, is charming, even charismatic, fearless, and unflappable. Let's hope the experts don't screw her up, that she's ready to lead them, and not the other way around.