One Reason "Folksy" Isn't Enough

People who are or were raised by/around "folks" know that there are different types of folksiness. And from where I sat last night, Palin's folksiness often came off as fake. Not in the sense that she was faking her folksiness, but in the sense that her folksiness often took on the tone one might take with crazy relatives or difficult neighbors - the forced folksiness one uses to maintain civility. That might have worked if Biden had come off as crazy or difficult, but he didn't. So instead it just seemed out of place, perhaps a bit condescending, and at one point outright inappropriate.