First she is a woman and a Republican. Teh Democrats think they are the party of and for women and resent any poaching in their preserve. This is a mirror image of the Democrat response to the existance of a black Republican, or even a Republican who is a person of color. How dare the Republican Party try to be as broad as the Democratic Party?
Second she is a woman and a mother. She has a career. She is successful. How dare she! The tisking directed at her daughter's pregnancy was criticism of mothering skills. Assuming this is fair game, when has this ever been done against the Democrats? Was Rose Kennedy criticised for the philandering of one son or the questionable lack of taking responsibility by another?
Third and least evident but most important is the First Gentleman of AK. No one has talked much about the fact that he is a blue-collar worker -- and a union member. A successful career woman with a blue-collar husband -- outrageous. That is not a model the Party of Women want to catch on. Next thing you know there will be Republican candidates who are blue collar workers -- or horror of horrors -- union members. Not only will union members be voting for Republican candidates which is bad enough, the candidate will be one of them.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a life-long Republican and white collar worker with advanced degrees. My children are a Sgt in the Infantry, and a techer of disadvantaged children with two children of her own. Their spouses are a white collar government worker with two children of her own, and a former blue collar worker in construction now doing whatever can be done to run a construction site without having a degree.
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