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August 30, 2008 - 10:16 pm - by Richard Fernandez
coyotl
2008-08-31 17:54:48

I think Ramesh Ponnuru is dead on. If Sarah were Samuel Palin, an athletic, evangelical, father of five and recently elected governor of a very small state (pop. wise) with no foreign policy experience, he would be nowhere near the OVP.

This is rank “tokenism” at its worse, a play for short term political advantage in which qualifications are discounted for gender. When did the GOP become the party of affirmative action?