Sarah Palin's Campaign Built on Female Chauvinism

?As quickly as free-market Republicans embraced a bailout of Wall Street, (and McCain, a born-again populist, demanded limits on executive pay), social conservatives who condemned feminism for encouraging mothers to work outside the home embraced this mother-of-five for pursuing the vice-presidency shortly after giving birth to an infant with Downs Syndrome; their enthusiasm was only intensified by news that her unwed teenage daughter was pregnant.? Column by Wendy Kaminer.