I know I’m breaking the RS rules by just linking to an article, but everyone really needs to read this one, they don’t come around very often – like blue moons. I have no pithy searing commentary, just wanted to share

…Ms. Palin’s stoutest defenders are often the Joe Sixpacks in her crowds, who shrug off her critics, ridiculers and perceived adversaries in the news media. They say they appreciate Ms. Palin for, above all else, how “real” and “like us” she is.

I especially liked this excerpt:

The testosterone flows at many of her events. Head-banging guitar chords greet her: she entered a fund-raiser in North Carolina on Thursday to the decidedly un-dainty chords of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.” “That was kinda cool,” she marveled from the stage. Everyone laughed. The event raised $800,000.

Among Rock-Ribbed Fans of Palin, Dudes Rule