Katherine S. writes:

Your evaluation of Sarah Palin is completely accurate in my view. Just wanted you to know that! She has done tremendous harm to the concept of traditional motherhood, for all the reasons you have mentioned. And, if she were not so pretty and glamorous, she would be a nobody.

Laura writes:

A number of female readers have expressed the same thoughts in the past couple of weeks, viewing Palin’s popularity as a form of explicit betrayal by conservatives. I believe it is. It’s a renunciation of the values traditional women hold onto despite the contempt of society at large. We have been left high and dry by the so-called family-values party and told to go it alone. Mainstream conservatives will not stand behind us except to the extent of saying it’s okay if we do what we do as long as we don’t impose our values on anyone else. That is not support, only mere tolerance.

By the way, Katherine’s remark that Palin’s popularity is based on her appearance will likely be viewed by die-hard Palinites as jealousy, just as I was accused of being a “jealous housewife” at the Free Republic website this week for my claim that Palin was too feminist and not smart enough to be president. If you’re a woman, I guess you have to be a super-model or, say, a wildly attractive CEO in order to legitimately criticize Palin.

Of course, if conservatives such as those at Free Republic actually held traditional women in any kind of esteem, there would be liitle suspicion of jealous housewives. It would be Palin who would be accused of jealousy of us.

I would just like to add that if I were jealous of Palin I would have made catty remarks about her appearance. I would have pointed out, for instance, that the lipstick she wore on the Barbara Walters show was far too glossy.

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