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[...] In recent days, I’ve heard from some women about how much they hate Palin . Not really dislike, but hate. Some of the comments are things like: “This woman is setting women’s rights back years,†or, “We are just one step away from losing …[Continue Reading] [...]

Pingback by Why Women Hate Sarah Palin | October 6, 2008

I see Luscombe’s point. Although I don’t hate Palin. I never want to see Hillary in the white house but that is because I don’t trust her not hate her.

Comment by TheDeeZone | October 6, 2008

I’m really flummoxed, both by your post and by the Time magazine article you referenced. Sure, in high school girls can certainly be “weapons-grade haters”. But thankfully, I can’t think of a woman I know who didn’t outgrow that.

I can only speak for myself, but the reason I personally am appalled by Palin (”hate” is far too strong a word here) is that she comes off as being a stupid bimbo. (She doesn’t have any foreign policy experience “because her parents weren’t rich and didn’t send her off to Europe with a backpack after she graduated”? This to her constitutes “foreign policy experience”?)

There are most certainly very intelligent, competent women in the highest levels of government both on the left and on the right (Nancy Pelosi, Condi Rice). Unfortunately Palin has made it clear that she’s not one of them. She was apparently chosen not because of her qualifications, but because of her appeal to a class of voters that McCain is trying to woo. Me, I agree with the McCain campaign insider who called the choice of Palin “cynical”. How sad it is that things have sunk this low.

Comment by ds | October 20, 2008

When trying to refute the notion that grown women could act in the same manner as high school girls, one might refrain from calling others names and using phrases such as “stupid bimbo.” Just a thought.

Comment by alanreynolds | October 20, 2008