Norman Podhoretz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, examines the hostility that Sarah Palin has provoked both among liberals and among conservative intellectuals, while noting "the tremendous enthusiasm" she has aroused among rank-and-file conservatives:
"[Ordinary conservatives] rightly see [Palin] as one of them, only better able and better positioned to stand up against the contempt and condescension of the liberal elites that were so perfectly exemplified by Mr. Obama's notorious remark in 2008 about people like them: 'And it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.'"
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