Why Barack Can't Get Sarah Off His Mind

There are two reasons why Senator Obama can't lay off talking about The Sarah. The first is driven by the cross-tabs: she's eating his lunch among white, working-class women according to the Washington Post/ABC poll out yesterday. There's been a 15 point shift toward McCain since the convention, and, with all due respect to the top of the GOP ticket, I don't think that's because John McCain suddenly made these ladies' hearts go pitter-pat. The look at Sarah and see themselves. Humans nature being what it is, they want to vote for someone like them.

The second is just sheer outrage of the type I mentioned on Sunday. Liberals see interests as being soley economic in nature. If the working class is suffering under the burden of high gas prices, growing unemployment and rising health care costs, why, in Heavens' name, don't they join Obama to usher in the political millenium? What liberals are unable to see is that interests often extend beyond economics into "mere" values. Obama and his campaign are trying to say, "Snap out of it!" to a public that doesn't want to snap.

P.S. The "lipstick on a pig" comment is going to hurt for a few days.