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I was sort of flabbergasted at this quote from a conservative historian that met Palin last summer. It comes from a great New Yorker piece on how the Palin buzz grew this summer in the conservative elite media.

Here's the quote: "Hanson, a farm owner, found it appealing that she was married to an oil worker, rather than to an executive."

Now maybe the reporter took Hanson's words out of context, but it reflects a larger reality in conservative circles. For all the talk about Joe Sixpack, they don't have that many leaders who are not wealthy in some sense. So it's funny that they see someone who has a spouse with a real job as something so amazing.

Just another reason the public views conservatives as so disconnected when the economy hit crisis mode.