Is Palin a Law and Order Candidate?
This Veteran Feminist Sure Hopes So

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
September 9, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/342/is-palin-a-law-and-order-candidate

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I admit it, call me crazy, but I was utterly charmed by Governor Sarah Palin which is to say that, despite her beauty, her smiles, and her humor, I saw that she was also Annie Oakley-deadly and no man's pushover; indeed, I would not mess with her. (Well, did you think this veteran feminist would be charmed by a woman because she is a lightweight?)

After all, Palin represents a state that gave women the right to vote in 1912–New York State enfranchised women in 1917; a state in which women like Libby Riddles and Susan Butcher have won the incredibly difficult dog sled race known as the Iditarod. Butcher won it three times in a row–something that no man has ever done. The race covers 1,161 miles of Alaskan wilderness and the racer, known as a "musher," often faces 100 mile an hour winds, blizzards, wild animals, thin ice, avalanches, snow blindness, and sleep deprivation.

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