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Detroit News columnist Laura Berman's recent piece has me scratching my head. I guess it's a defense of Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and an attack on Sarah Palin.
It seems Berman can discuss looks without fear of retribution because she is a woman. The sad thing is Berman misses the boat on Palin's looks. The Left has now resorted to saying Palin has been trying to score points on her sexuality. It's true she is a beautiful woman but did I miss it when she went around showing cleavage and tight skirts?
It's another sad attempt by the Liberals to demonize a woman who has the guts to say she likes guns, has a big family and didn't kill her baby when she discovered he would be born with a disability.
Here's Berman's column.
As Gov. Jennifer Granholm made her way around the state last week, trying to tap political support for the broken Michigan Promise scholarships and her own education initiative, the state spotlight was shining more brightly on another female governor.
Palin deserves more attention than Granholm because she did a good job in Alaska while Granholm has been a miserable failure.
Sarah Palin -- who abruptly quit her job running Alaska in July -- launched her national book tour at a Grand Rapids-area Barnes & Noble, fulfilling a promise she'd made during the McCain presidential campaign to return.
Palin's fans waited in line, some overnight, bought "Read my lipstick" buttons and wore "Sarah is a hero" hats. They praised her character and urged her to run for president. In her red blazer and jazzy eyeglasses, Palin clinched the connection between Michigan and Alaska: "the huntin' and the fishin' and the hockey moms and just the hardworking, patriotic Americans," who clamored for her.
I wonder if a male, conservative columnist mentioned Hillary Clinton's wardrobe, how badly he would be attacked by the PC Police.
Even Granholm's most ardent supporters aren't cheering loudly now: Michigan is an industrial quagmire, its economic challenges matched by Lansing's dysfunction.
Granholm's anti-business stance has hurt this state so no one should be cheering for her.
But Granholm -- elected in 2002 on a combination of charisma, communication skills and intelligence -- is mired by the state's endless series of unfortunate events and badly matched personalities. Her star power wanes with every day she stays in a difficult game.
She has no star power and her intelligence is questionable at best.
By all rights, Palin ought to be at least as dead in the water. A failed vice presidential candidate, she quit her job as Alaska's governor midway through her first term, ridiculing "lame duck" governors, and by inference, all governors who (a) don't quit after one term or (b) who don't quit in the middle of their first term.
With 18 months to go -- and apparent clarity about the pointlessness of serving it out -- she spun that decision as an exercise in rugged individualism, saying she wasn't wired to do what other governors do: "Travel around the state...just accept that lame duck status, hit the road, draw the paycheck and milk it."
Instead, Palin teamed with a writer, typed up "Going Rogue," donned the campaign blazer and flew into Grand Rapids inspiring her version of shock and awe.
Berman finally makes a valid point.
The two attractive, charismatic female governors are opposites in style and substance: Granholm fights for seriousness, playing down her physical beauty and emphasizing her grit and intelligence. Palin's high heels and chesty bravado -- and her indifference to proving herself as a policy wonk or scholar -- are just fine with the "let Sarah be Sarah" crowd. "She's a very real person. A fresh breath of air," a man named "Joe" told MSNBC in Grand Rapids.
What on Earth is Berman trying to say? That Granholm is so beautiful but she is a person of substance, while Palin is cute with no character or nothing to offer other than being "chesty"?
Her philosophy differs from Granholm's.
"It would be apathetic to just hunker down and go with the flow," Palin said last summer. "Nah, only dead fish 'go with the flow.' "
In Palin's calculus, Granholm's a dead fish, washed up on the shore of hard work and effort in a grimly downbeat state. Patriotic Palin is on the cover of Newsweek, adorably wearing shorts, drawing cheers and 2012 presidential campaign speculation from Michigan to Indiana to upstate New York.
I don't agree that Granholm has done her best. She has tried some things, but she played politics too often no matter how bad it hurt this state. She has been indecisive and lacked leadership.
I am also growing tired of the attacks on Palin. If she is so stupid, why is the Left so afraid of her?
