PALIN, KENNEDY AND "CLASS"

                                                                               

J'all hear it?
Governor Palin: "I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope. ... It's going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be."
Holy moly.  She has a point that generally speaking, the Kennedy's ain't Wasillabillies.
Not to say they aren't loaded with issues. They are. My mother had the occasion to be at an event with Ted years ago, for example, and I found myself forbidding her from being alone with him.  And I meant it.
The simple, painfully obvious issue Palin misses entirely, and sadly, is this: the scrutiny of a candidate who will be one of 100 legislators with no independent authority to do anything but show up for work each day v. the scrutiny of a candidate one misfired palpitation away from being the leader of the freeworld oughta be fundamentally different.
This I learned in high school.
The only commonality between these two candidates is that in each, estrogen is paramount to testosterone. And that, Governor Palin, we all have long argued is irrelevant in our professional pursuits. Join the cause.