Huffington Post readers are familiar with this type of attempt to set the media agenda. (Read a 2006 post, "Peter Beinhart Has No Clothes," by David Sirota.) For all its studied eloquence, this predictable Beinhart piece is one more misargued example by a journalist-pundit accustomed to framing the news before it becomes news. Quite simply, Beinhart as a Yale-educated foreign relations expert and liberal hawk for war in Iraq has forgotten his Americana, beginning with Annie Oakley. Sarah Palin does embody outdated conservative viewpoints of the old Reagan Republicianism; but more so, she personifies Reagan's cowboy image and Western motif. Her staying power--and mark my words, she will stay (but perhaps not stick)-- is associated with Americana, which often is mistaken for the culture wars but in essence has little to do with that. (See the Huffington Post article on that below.) In sum, Palin is an iconic symbol, and cultured pundits like Beinhart, appealing to the popular tastes while embracing GOP talking points in some years and Democratic ones in others, need to leave the premises of their offices more and put their views to the test in the Midwest and West.