I am reading this story on the NYTimes about Sarah Palin's visit to SNL last night and this paragraph just jumped out at me.

On the campaign trail in Lancaster, Pa., on Saturday morning, Ms. Palin appeared to be primed for television, emerging from her hotel wearing a miniskirt and black go-go boots and breezing through her single campaign event of the day, a rally before several thousand people at a baseball stadium. NYTimes.com

There are those who tell me that I border on being sexist in my coverage of Palin, my answer has been it's not me that is playing the sex angle on this candidate for Vice President. I submit that no-one who has helped portray women as brainless and not ready of leadership more than this lunkhead Palin. She has set back the cause of women in politics quite a bit. I don't think women need to loose any of their femininity or sexuality when seek political office, but they damn sure don't need to be using their sexuality to help get that office.