McCain-Palin and the new western conservatism

There's an interesting piece here, which, if you can get past some of the digs at American conservatism actually has some valid points about how the McCain-Palin ticket could be a harbinger of a new western conservatism. Now, if we could only get the people of Colorado (ostensibly part of the West) to fully subscribe to that so that the state goes for McCain and Bob Schaffer. One can only hope.

A great paragraph from that article speaking about Gov. Palin:

"No one paid much attention to the fact that she had been elected governor of a state. Or that she got to that office not because, unlike some politicians I could mention, her husband had been there before her, or because she bleated continuously about glass ceilings, but by challenging the entrenched interests in her own party and beating them. In almost two years as Governor she has cleaned out the Augean stables of Alaskan Government. You don't win a statewide election and enjoy approval ratings of more than 80 per cent without real political talent."