This is ridiculous, taken right from the official hand-out of Republican talking points.
No one has been less sympathetic to feminism than American conservatives.
Just look at a group like the Southern Baptists, the largest denomination of Protestants in America.
Their official, published view is that the man is head of the family and the wife should obey him!
The Mormons, the Pentecostals and others have similar views. So do conservative Jews and Catholics.
And nothing has happened to change that fact.
And Palin comes right out of this tradition.
Just because she does not believe in abortion and is fortunate enough to have support resources to have a large family while pursuing politics does not make her a feminist.
And those supporting her are not feminist types either. Good God, John McCain is old skirt-chaser and a man who left his crippled wife when he came back from Vietnam.
He only picked her to cement the support of the Religious Right which knows perfectly well that he is a genuinely irreligious man.
Of course, there was the outside chance she would help him pick up disaffected Hillary supporters, but it seems there will be almost none of that.
