Sarah Palin.

Normal, bright, courageous, loving, smart, ambitious, wildly popular with the people of Alaska, optimistic, good natured, good sport, patriotic, and an wonderful example of taking the initiative and fighting for small people against privileged, arrogant politicians.

This might sound like a Hollywood blurb for a movie about a young liberal woman outraged by oil company pollution and drug company profits (always "obscene").

That would be minus the overt patriotism part, of course, unless it plays as patriotism derived from slandering American businessmen and the free enterprise system. That will be wrapped in a flag as wide and as long as Obama's secret history of sucking up to Weather Underground communists, black power zealots, and Saudi Wahhabis.

But, no, it applies to a likable and dynamic female right winger who's doing the work of 20 diesel locomotives and seventy strap-on rockets to get the McCain train across the finish line before the ice-people-scum-of-the-earth, open-door-to-terrorists, sushi-loving, nipple-ringed Obama freak freight gets there.

How can this be?! Every subversive's and malcontent's unholy, crawl-out-of-the-basement, swamp-spawn-of-Dick-Cheney, drill-for-oil, actually-kill-our-enemies, five-row-electrified-border-fence @#$#%ing nightmare is now the number TWO gal on the REPUBLICAN ticket!

Liberal nightmare.

To leftists . . . Sarah Palin’s a disgrace to women everywhere and a traitor to the agenda of radical feminists and other America haters.

Lest you think this latter point too harsh, check out the article by Catherine MacKinnon cited below. American women, you see, exist in a living hell of males intent on controlling them and sucking the marrow out of their bones. Women’s status in this filthy country is characterized by “sex-based poverty and impunity for sexual abuse from childhood on.”

In the Colonel’s experience as a Public Defender in a fly-over state, he never ran across any prosecutor – not one -- who didn’t give a damn about prosecuting cases of spousal or child abuse. In fact, prosecutors seemed very ready and willing indeed to file those kinds of cases. What garbage!

As for sex-based poverty, another load of garbage, it has everything to do with a culture that long ago began to denigrate the role of men in the family and sell women a bill of goods that they can have sexual freedom and parenthood subsidized by the state welfare agencies. The Colonel spent a brief (but insufficiently brief) time working for a state welfare agency one time while waiting to go to law school and personally, per instruction, denied benefits to a single mother who had made the mistake of revealing the existence of a man in her home. Good luck to her getting assistance from a man with her life's problems. Poverty City here we come.

And then there was the 15-year-old child, already a mother of one child, who came in eager to learn what her check would be now that she was pregnant again. Presumably that was America’s fault. But who do you think was responsible for her subsequent poverty? Sexist American patriarchs who don’t give a damn about women, or women with poverty stricken attitudes listening to very, very bad political advice to put their faith in government?

I don't know where Ms. MacKinnon stood on the issue of AFDC payments to unmarried women in the 60s through the 90s but I’m willing to guess that she saw them as a salutary milestone on the way to freeing women from subservience to men.

To MacKinnon, now, life in America for women is life on a bed of nails where everyday existence is nothing but discrimination, humiliation, and exploitation. Always compared to the ideal society, of course, not the one comprised of imperfect humans, finite resources (pretty much), and trade offs between good, but competing policy choices.

For radical feminists like her, Sarah Palin's getting elected to the office of governor is a sick travesty of an accomplishment for a woman.

For me, I say, "It @#$#%ing A is an accomplishment!" and "Go SARAH!"

"Obama Is the Way Forward for Women. Abortion rights and equal pay are at stake in the election.." By Catharine A. Mackinnon, Wall Street Journal, 10/21/08 (subscriber's only).