Paleofeminist Gloria Steinem is unimpressed with Sarah Palin:

The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can’t tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom…

Palin’s value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling…

Phew. Not only that, Palin must be a nasty sexist, seemingly having no view on government control of men’s wombs.

Have a look at the tumultuous comments.

It seems safe to say that for hard-core US feminist Democrats a woman’s right to choose to go with the further reaches of the liberal-leftist Democrat agenda (as defined by themselves) is the only choice deserving respect.

As usual Camille gets it.