It’s Not All About Sex

If Stephen Palin were the veep candidate, the Left would still attack him.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
National Review Online

Talking about Hillary Clinton and sexism at a women-and-leadership Newsweek forum earlier this year, Sarah Palin said it “bothers me a little” to see Clinton running as a victim. “She does herself a disservice to even mention it.”

Palin added that any “perceived whine. . . . doesn’t do us any good . . . women in politics, or women in general.”

You go, girl. Who needs to play victim? Life’s unfair. Politics gets ugly. So what? Fight on!

To Palin’s credit, she hasn’t whined about sexism since becoming the Republican vice-presidential nominee. But her campaign has. Most recently this morning, in a web ad that uses Katie Couric to help land the blow. In a video clip from her evening-news show, Couric says, “One of the great lessons of [the Hillary Clinton] campaign is the continued, and accepted, role of sexism in American life.”