Yes, Palin was selected to appeal to evangelicals, especially men who place more value on cuteness and fecundity than they do on competence and fiscal sense. I think very few of the women who are disappointed because Clinton didn’t win the nomination are so narrow-minded that they can’t see the big picture. Palin is window-dressing. The fantasy world she inhabits doesn’t include sex ed, but now it does contain at least one pregnant teenager.

I grew up in the military, in a family of hunters. You could say I love the sinners but hate the sin.