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[blackcurrants]

This post from The Atlantic articulates a feeling I tried to express when drinking tea with Alice earlier today: Palin is so, so terrible that I'm starting to feel someone kind should do something about it.
Don't get me wrong - I'm with the Women Against Sarah Palin crew. She's one of those despicable people who I cannot, cannot abide. And she was

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[electrodruid]

I don't think "spending more time with their family" is a gender-specific euphemism, particularly. At least, in the last company I worked for, that phrase was trotted out at least once a year as a phrase to describe why the latest (invariably male) incompetent General Manager of the company (or other high-powered, highly-paid, and incompetent executives) would be leaving. I don't think I ever heard "spend more time in the garden".

On a less tangential note, Palin: UGH. There aren't actually people falling for that campaign, are there?

[blackcurrants]

Well, at first, there really were. The religious right* loved her, you see, and they hadn't loved philandering, divorced, might-he-be-pro-choice McCain that much. But then he produced a puppet who looked pretty and spouted "guns, babies and Jesus" type lines, and they all wet themselves with delight.
THis is a worry, as they are the group who have kept Bush in power. However, it the choice certainly annoyed several 'undecided' voters, as she is so evidently incapable of such office - it was transparent pandering on McCain's part, and there are still some here who don't like being lied and pandered to. . . so we'll see.

[blackcurrants]

*neither Religious nor Right, naturally.

[marcus_felix]

No, it's not particularly gender-specific. In fact, one of its originators was a man, who was interviewed the other day, from the last Tory government, I believe. Sorry, I just can't remember the bugger's name.

Curiously, the reason he was brought up was because Ruth Kelly's just left the Cabinet to spend more time with her family.