I refer all to this piece by Anne Kornblut in today's

Washington Post. Her thesis is that we need to look back

only 6 months to how Hillary was treated during the primary

season by the media and the right wing to see what is

currently acceptable as non-sexist coverage.

I am an over 45 year old woman and support HRC and feel Obama opened the door to this Palin woman by not putting Hillary on his ticket.

While I am not a big supporter of Obama, this Palin woman is dangerous, completely able to blindly set aside any qualms about hypocrisy and truthfulness and fire away. She uses her family as props (holding the DS baby up as display after her

speech) and then cries foul when anyone calls her on any of her hypocrisy (as in she reduced the Alaska special ed budget

by 60%).

As Anne Kornblut says--What if Chelsea Clinton were pregnant when Hillary ran?

The republicans are going to try to hide this woman from the main stream press because if there were any fair questioning of her,they know she would reveal how little she knows and has thought about the major international issues.

They will take her to Juneau and brief her, yeah, on how to dodge the press and give slippery answers and they will take her to only friendly venues (a la Bush) where the flags will cover her up and there will be no press access.

There are only 60 days left. The republicans are good at this and we must demand that the press get to question her. And, we must not be afraid to hold her to the same standard Hillary was held to by the same people who are now learning how to say "sexism" but still don't understand that it does not mean that you can't ask legitimate questions of a woman to see if she is actually qualified for the job she aspires to.

It's funny how Salon feminists (like Ms. Walsh), who have labelled once and again as a "sexist" every person who criticizes a woman or a dogma of the feminist movement, get their own medicine with Ms. Palin.

"Sexist" has been a wonderful word for feminists to avoid debate and logical discussion of issues, insulting the opponent. It's funny to see that, when the word gets applied against them, feminists like Ms. Walsh don't like it. What a hypocritical bunch of people!

Jean Cummings on Gwen Ifel's Washington Week (Sept.5) said it better than I could. Yes, we do need to have the media do its job and explore every facet of the person who would be one heart beat away from the presidency. It is not sexist to examine her claims she was against the bridge to nowhere (she was for it first, and after she still took the money to build a road to nowhere), her claims she is a maverick against pork (Alaska gets a lot of pork and she hired a PR group to lobby for lots of it) And finally, the media cannot let the McCain campaign shelter her from answering questions by denying access. So, to the media - do your job.

If she'd left Trig with a sitter, people would have speculated that she was ashamed of him or was a bad mom, etc. Since so few Down syndrome infants are carried to term, there's a good number of young people who've probably never seen a baby with this. If her baby had autism, the trendy lefties would be applauding her. The baby's no more of a prop than any other politican's child or family member.

If Walsh wonders why so few women run for public office, (and I'm sure that she's written some handwringer about that), the media's treatment of Sarah Palin and Walsh's baying for her blood might be a reason.

Walsh has that lock-step mentality that there's only one way to be a woman, and that's the way she and other professional chatterati have approved. Palin must not have gotten the official manual.

Question her record, question her actions.

Whatever Sarah Wants

Sarah gets.

She is a Feral Pitt bull.

We women DO question Palin's policies and stands..and she's full of malarkey! Tell the truth..you've never even looked at what women find to be sexist! Now, the reichties have learned this new word and fling it out there like a monkey with his poop! Her (your) handlers hired her in from the political equivalent of Central Casting, gave her a pre-canned speech and turned her loose! Being just another political actress, they know she hasn't learned her lines well enough to open on Broadway! If she was worth five cents on a dime, she'd be on all the major shows Sunday morning..with a vengeance!

Any kid on the playground can deliver a snotty retort..especially when they're fed their material! A month ago, she criticized Hillary and calls her "whiny"..then tries to pretend she respects her..using her in her first snow-job speech to the country, last Friday! What nerve! Fine..you go ahead and vote for Ernestine (snort) Palin..like a good little lemming. She's a fake and a phony..what she SAYS doesn't jive with what she's DONE..and her welcome to the AIP a few months ago..full of enthusiastic support for their stands..causes me to consider her completely anti-American!

Maybe we should let Alaska leave the union after all..provided we can get a guarantee that all the other whacko nutjobs on the far-reicht be required to move there..leaving America to real Americans! She deserves and should have expected every second of scrutiny..and it's only just begun, so put your big-girl panties on and get over it, toots!

that both major parties nominated candidates based on "personality" instead of qualifications. Obama is an idealistic lefty idealog with a silver tongue and too little experience, and Palin is exactly his right-wing opposite. Any partisan on either side that criticizes one and not the other is a goofball. (This means you, Joan.)