Admittedly, I didn't know a whole lot about Camille Paglia before reading her article on Sarah Palin. Given that, as I read the article, I was stunned not only with her fair and generally positive appraisal of John McCain's running mate, but her incredibly direct and honest approach to controversial issues such as abortion and capital punishment. Though we are on different ends of the spectrum on both of these issues, as well as others, Paglia takes an approach that many who stand opposite of me do not: she is brazenly forthright and unapologetic about how she feels, and doesn't pretend that the issues are something they are not so as to help sate her conscience.