Are you kidding? We demeaned a Republican woman? I assume you are talking about Sarah Palin. Gov. Palin's own words made her look like a fool. No one demeaned her. She revealed herself to be a fool by:

1. Not knowing the constitutional duties and powers of the vice president.

2. Having a delusional grasp on foreign affairs and the role of governors in foreign affairs.

3. Not knowing Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade. Couric should have asked her about why she disagrees with Miranda v. Arizona. I doubt Palin would have known what meant. It would have been a reference to her deriding Obama's concern that people who are detained by our government be read their rights.

4. Palin had no grasp of the causes of our economic meltdown. Her word salad is response to Couric's questions about the bailout was shocking.

5. Palin was incapable of conversing about large issues because she has obviously never thought about them and probably does not have the intellect to do it.

6. Palin made her out to be some expert on special needs children, including autism. It was embarrassing that when she gave her first "policy" speech, she made a snide remark about how funding research on fruit flies is wasteful spending that could be given to help the families of special needs children and adults. Gov. Palin obviously did not know that research on fruit flies, who share 98% of their genetic material with humans, yielded the information that autism is detected on Chromosome 7 and that inherited levels of neuroxin are indicators of a predisposition to autism. Gov. Palin had no idea what she was doing.

7. Gov. Palin whipped up violent and virulent racism against Obama. She and her surrogates used his middle name as a slur against him, issued dog whistle calls for racial resentment, and then defended her rabidly racist audiences as being emblematic of the best of "real" America.

No one demeaned Palin. She demeaned herself and put our country at risk by accepting the offer to run for VP despite being totally out of her depth. She put her ambition first, not her country.