I can't help it. Yes, some of the things I've heard about her makes me cringe - and I'm a McCain supporter. Some of her critics were (I suppose) old-fashioned women who can't get over the idea that she has 5 kids, and shouldn't she be home taking care of them? That alone makes me support her. Obama has two very young daughters, why isn't anyone asking HIM the same question. I'm a working mom, and those kind of questions just irk me. (Yet, for some reason I've never thought of Hillary as a working mom, even though she is one. I don't know why that is.) I also hate the people who said "Palin has no foreign policy experience." Well duh, she's a GOVERNOR, not a Senator. How many Governors have foreign policy experience? Mine doesn't, but he's competent none the less. I doubt Gov. Bill Clinton had any either, and he ran for President, not VP. But yes, her comment about Russia was pretty embarrasing, I admit. Canada would have made more sense. And I'm not sure why a non-lawyer would know very many SC cases, don't you think questions about who she'd put on the court are more important than how many cases she knows? (Of course we all should know the answer to that one.) Hillary made some gaffes, too, like bragging about shooting and slamming shots of whiskey, when it was clear she'd never drank the stuff before. I think maybe part of the problem is that women who did support Hillary look at Palin and think, "OMG, is THIS what you have to be to get ahead in politics?" We still have a long way to go, baby.

Sarah Palin is not a real "working Mom". Think about it. She stayed with the kids until the oldest daughter was old enough to help take care of Piper before heading out for the mayorship. She lives right next door to her parents, for goodness sake, and by all accounts the kids were over at the grandparents a lot (nice for everybody). So how many ordinary women out there have that luxury? Alaska is not representative of the lower 48--her family got yearly oil payments from the State...um, how many in the lower 48 have that luxury? So much for the "real" executive experience. I kind of like her moxie, but boy, this is stretching your resume.

Trig was a surprise, not a planned pregnancy, and I applaud her reaction to it (loved the "Neanderthal" comment) but do you honestly believe somebody hasn't already paid for her ambitions in that family? Family is family, we all push and pull, and women should have the right to push and pull just like men and not get hit with the guilt trip. Despite the grind, it is still a once in a lifetime experience for the kids, right? Yeah, maybe, so I'm not going to judge that harshly. But stop with the "working Mom" crap. Real working Moms HAVE NO CHOICE. Real working Moms don't have that little safety net and a check from the State. I vote we call real working Moms the ones who don't have a husband who makes what--$130,000 a year in part-time (if intense weeks) of work?

What conservative women love about Palin is just the flip side of the "I'm a woman" hip swinging song that Raquel Welch belted out--sex, cool, I can do it all, Baby.

A pox on both their houses, I say. The only thing super left and super right "feminists" agree upon is women can do it all, giving men in power the excuse to say Health Care, Day Care, Elderly Care is just not necessary. Because women can do it all.

Give me a break. How about some good old fashioned common sense? Stop yapping about family values while refusing to pay ANY tax for the basics it will take to support our children, our women, and our elderly.