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JUST IN CASE YOU WONDERED WHAT WOMEN OUGHT TO THINK ABOUT SARAH PALIN…...UPDATED

..... SALON is right here to tell you.
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Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She’s such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it’s easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

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I wonder if this hysteric has ever heard of the first rule of political argument—the guy who brings up the Nazis first is the loser…....

And wouldn’t Freud have a field day with this little excretion….....:
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I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, “Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a ‘sexy librarian’ costume—as a vice president? That’s a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it.”

Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain’s standing among white women to a 53 over Obama’s 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions—their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership.

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There is lots (LOTS) more, and believe it or not, it gets even worse.
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The left is coming unglued in this country…..over what appears to be a fairly typical specimen of American womanhood, whose political achievements got her nominated to run for Vice President. Doesn’t it make you wonder why?
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READ THE WHOLE THING and ask yourself what kind of feminism considers this acceptable discourse. Yuck!
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Hat Tip: Jonah Goldberg at THE CORNER
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UPDATE: Lest it appear that I disdain “feminism” in any sense, have a look at PHYLLIS CHESLER’S piece that starts with
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I admit it, call me crazy, but I was utterly charmed by Governor Sarah Palin which is to say that, despite her beauty, her smiles, and her humor, I saw that she was also Annie Oakley-deadly and no man’s pushover; indeed, I would not mess with her. (Well, did you think this veteran feminist would be charmed by a woman because she is a lightweight?)

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She covers a lot of ground - dealing with her fellow feminists’ ranting, with specific issues of disagreement, and with her expectations of what Sarah Palin might accomplish. It’s a thoughtful, sensible, and eminently logical bit of writing, and makes Phyllis Chesler, of whom I had never heard before today, sound like someone I’d very much like to know.
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READ THE WHOLE THING
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Hat Tip: BLOODTHIRSTY LIBERAL

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