From my Flickr buddy Bearded Jon. He’s an Alaskan and the biggest Palin supporter I know. Just kidding, Jon.

One of my other Flickr buddies Jim sent me a recent Newsweek article, also about Palin and the GOP’s surprising support of her. Quindlen writes that the “conservatives have probably used the word ‘sexist’ more in the past week than they have in the past 50 years” in support of Palin. However, it’s a bunch of crap.

This would all have been entertaining if it were not such rank hypocrisy. These are people who have inveighed against affirmative action, a version of which undoubtedly played a part in this selection. These are people who inveighed against personal attacks on their new nominee when the wingnuts of their own party elevated such attacks to a fine art by accusing Hillary Rodham Clinton of fictitious misdeeds ranging from treason to murder. To try to suggest Sarah Palin might garner the Hillary Clinton vote, that one woman is just the same as another, that biology trumps ideology, is the ultimate evidence of true sexism, and I hope Senator Clinton will travel the country and say so.

One might also suggest that the GOP still wishes to roll back the clock, but as Quinlen goes on to say “expediency is an astonishing thing.” Again, I state: the irony. Be sure you read the whole article; it’s worth it.