Not so long ago, Sarah Palin gave a speech in which she praised small towns as the “real America” and as bastions of “pro-America” attitudes. She was roundly criticized and attacked by the left for her statements, and she later issued an apology stating that if people thought she meant some parts of the nation were not “real” Americans, “I don’t want that misunderstood, if that’s the way it came across, I apologize.”
Still, the left holds this against her, angry that she might think some parts of the country are more genuinely American than others, and that some might be more pro-American than others. Not long before Palin’s speech, President George W. Bush remarked that vacationing on his ranch helped him stay in touch with real Americans, and the same sort of outrage erupted. How dare he say people in Washington DC aren’t real Americans!
