A fair take by the WaPo’s Chris Cillizza: Here’s Callizza’s take on why Sarah Palin represents the heart of the GOP and it’s voters:

Palin’s appeal within the GOP is derived from the sense that she “gets” the hopes, dreams and worries of the average Republican footsoldier. Palin’s verbal colloquialisms, which play into that “hockey mom” image, were on full display with Hannity. Of the growth of the government, Palin said that “you’ve got to quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole;” she also called the actions of the Obama Adminstration “kind of a ‘we told you so.’” Palin embodies the outrage that many conservatives feel toward President Obama — the idea that his intellectualism and talk of bipartisanship mask a dangerous tendency to rely on government to solve problems. Palin’s solution to what ails the GOP is a return to the party roots, a plain-spoken conservatism that doesn’t try to outsmart or outthink Obama but rather aims to draw heavily on “common sense values” in the country to make the case against the current president.

Well, yeah. Too bad far too many on her own side don’t get it.

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