Peggy Drexler: Women - listen to me. John McCain is not your friend

I was watching formidable reporter Christiana Amanpour on Real Time with Bill Maher this week as she argued that Sarah Palin "connects" and, "whether you agree with her policies or not, it's actually good there is a woman on a major ticket ... it's important ...it's progress." With the greatest respect for a woman who can do her job with bullets whizzing past her head, I must ask: are you nuts?" A statement like that from such a tough and accomplished woman is another reminder that even as Palin's shortcomings have come so painfully, embarrassingly obvious, she still gets a pass based on her gender. If you are a woman who believes that every home should have an assault weapon, that government should have dominion over our bodies, that the future defender of our educational system has yet to have a child who made it past high... [read full story]