Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

Exactly right. Palin has many negatives - pandering to the anti-choice, Bible-thumping, book-burning, anti-science neanderthals is one of them - but being a woman is not. Still, it is expedient for GOP to raise the misogyny flag at the very first opportunity hoping that at least some Clinton's supporters would find solace in the concept. GOP thrives on tokenism - take for example Alan Keys candidacy against Obama in the Senate election. But people could see through it then and they can see through woman-friendly facade now.

i've always thought the first woman or black in the oval office would be a republican. Say what you will about Bush but he's actually followed through with respect to women and minorities in the top positions of government. Something Clinton never did.

As far as your charge that republicans have cynically embraced feminism, that's a false argument. There are two types of feminism today. We have the liberal victim variety that seem to feel as though government and society owe them something, and we have the conservative variety that seek equality in wages and opportunity. Sarah Palen is indeed a feminist as are the majority of conservatives, just not the kind that Gloria Steinem and her fellow travelers approve of.

I like Sarah Palin a lot. She is very impressive!

I like Sarah Palin a lot. She is very impressive!

Your obvious bias comes out with your initial paragraph which tries to demean Palin with the PTA wisecrack...so much so that you can't be taken seriously....You will become as irrelevant as Dan Rather. If you were objective, fair and intellectually honest, you would talk about the real exectuive experience of all the candidates, which for the D's is greatly lacking, perhaps greater than Palin's.

Your obvious bias comes out with your initial paragraph which tries to demean Palin with the PTA wisecrack...so much so that you can't be taken seriously....You will become as irrelevant as Dan Rather. If you were objective, fair and intellectually honest, you would talk about the real exectuive experience of all the candidates, which for the D's is greatly lacking, perhaps greater than Palin's.

Boy, this dingbat just couldn't have it more wrong. Believe me Anna, you are no Sarah Palin. What Republicans have ALWAYS detested about the women's "movements" (and still do) is that they don't represent womens' values, just liberal womens' values. That was proven in the Clinton/Monica affair, just the way Clarence Thomas taught us that blacks can't really be blacks unless they are liberal Democrats.
Better get out of the way Anna - you just might get run over by a REAL womens' movement inspired by Sarah Palin.

Anna Quindlen once again shows both her own staggering level of incompitence and that the media is still on it's hate-Palin (and her family) kick. Why does Anna think only liberals have been pushing for women's rights? You "journalists" REALLY need to step away from your radical leftist friends once in a while and get out into the real world. Feminism isn't about making sure women can kill their babies if they want, it's about women having equal opportunity as men. That's it. What has become clear is that whe it comes to true progress over politics, liberals ALWAYS choose politics. You see this in liberal "churches" where the politics dominated theology. Now liberal women are slandering Palin (and her family) in the most disgusting manner possible, not because she isn't advancing women, but because she isn't doing so the "right" way.

What an interesting take you have on the facts. You write, "but questions about her breadth of experience were dismissed as sexist." Well...not exactly. The media's and dem's questions concerning whether, as a mother of five, she should or could effectively govern as VP is what was sexist.

And you say, the republicans 'wanted the press to write about mooseburgers and ignore how the governor had once pursued the kind of earmarked federal funds she now insists are anathema to her.' Not exactly...the repubs wanted the press to write about her real qualifications instead of sending around nasty emails and news stories about her 17-year-old daughter's pregnancy.

You are not comparing apples to oranges. Uh...I think your liberalism is showing.

What I find offensive is the liberals sudden concern with a woman's ability to juggle family and work. I suppose women are only equal when they belong to the democratic party. As the old saying goes, some women are more equal than others.

Palin is a brilliant choice, and I suspect you may be looking at the first female President of the United States. That she would be a Republican really chaps your hide, doesn't it, Anna?

Great article Anna, You hit the nail on the head. Republicans these days are opportunits to the extreme and are willing to play or say anything to get elected, irregardless of the sanctity of the truth. It is too bad that the American public has such short memories as to forget how they operate. Never forget that the architects of the Bush administration are also pulling the strings for the McCain campaign.

Wow, what closet have you been locked in? We conservatives have always thought women should have "choices" of career or "home career" without being ridiculed for the latter. We know women can also do both. This is no "turnaround" for us! Typical liberal viewpoint!!

Unlike the left wing, who identify people only according to "isms," conservatives have always championed the notion that every person should be treated as an individual, not identified by whatever racial, ethnic, religious or socioeconomic group or the gender to which he or she happens to belong. If the Republicans had put up the first black nominee for President, the Democrats would do to him/her what they did to Clarence Thomas (recall that Joe Biden was the leader of that pack). Sarah Palin is smart, principled and accomplished, seemingly while having it all: high-powered political career, strong marriage, five children, one of whom presents special challenges. She should be the poster woman for the women's movement. which was, after all, about empowerment, wasn't it? C???mon, wasn???t it?

Guess not. Feminism apparently means singing paeans to the great liberal gods, but Mrs. Palin instead chose a Republican hymnal. That alone disqualifies her accomplishment and her nomination by the party of Lincoln from any recognition (even begrudging) by the lefties.