which chugged up the Alaska coast carrying a tour group from the Weekly Standard. At Juneau, conservative notables, including Fox News commentator Fred Barnes, lunched with the governor, Sarah Palin — and, as men often do on shore leave, swooned. Her remarkable qualities — "how smart Palin was," according

s of victimhood LETTERS TO THE EDITOR `President Bush operates in Wash- ington like the head of a small occu- pying army of insurgents." the pundit Fred Barnes writes in his recent book, Rebel-in-Chief "He's an alien in the realm of the governing class. given a green card by voles" Let's see: These insur