While the selection of Sarah Palin to be the GOP's Vice-Presidential nominee continues to generate positive buzz within the party, the nation's punditocracy continues to debate the merits of the selection:

Tammy Bruce makes a feminist argument for Palin.

Whether we have a D, R or an "i for independent" after our names, women share a different life experience from men, and we bring that difference to the choices we make and the decisions we come to. Having a woman in the White House, and not as The Spouse, is a change whose time has come, despite the fact that some Democratic Party leaders have decided otherwise. But with the Palin nomination, maybe they'll realize it's not up to them any longer.

Clinton voters, in particular, have received a political wake-up call they never expected. Having watched their candidate and their principles betrayed by the very people who are supposed to be the flame-holders for equal rights and fairness, they now look across the aisle and see a woman who represents everything the feminist movement claimed it stood for. Women can have a family and a career. We can be whatever we choose, on our own terms. For some, that might mean shooting a moose. For others, perhaps it's about shooting a movie or shooting for a career as a teacher. However diverse our passions, we will vote for a system that allows us to make the choices that best suit us. It's that simple.

I predict that Bruce will soon find herself erased as a non-person from the ranks of leftist feminists.

Pat Buchanan explains why he thinks Palin has generated a firestorm, both in support and opposition.

Why did the selection of Sarah Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even "Saturday Night Live" has satirized the infatuation?

Because she is one of us -- and he is one of them.

Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah Palin kills her own food.

Some will, no doubt, attribute Pat's explanation, and the way in which it is phrased, to racism. Ironically, though, it is not racism, or even sexism, in my opinion. It's about class, but not in the way that Marxists think of class. Barack Obama represents, in his life experience and his ideology, the intellectual class in America. Sarah Palin represents what used to be called the working class. Neither label really fits, but we know it when we see it. Palin is rural, community college, physical labor, hunt and fish, belief in the Bible, get married young, have more than two kids, Red State America. Obama is urban, Ivy League, professional, wait to get married, have two kids or less, office job, play golf in the Summer, ski in the Winter, fuzzy religious beliefs (if any) Blue State America. The fact that each so clearly represents "the other" is the reason why they generate such antipathy. No analogy is perfect, and this one is problematic. It's also problematic when we consider that Obama is Number One on his ticket, while Palin is Number Two. John McCain isn't entirely in one camp or the other which may, in the end, be the reason he wins.