You’re right, there are plenty of women with conservative values. Probably more women than not. I saw their reaction to Sarah Palin. My wife and also my sister were both very impressed with her.
But I still think that more women are pro gov’t health care than men, but not necessarily liberal.
Although my wife is conservative, our 23 year old son is un-insured and cannot afford insurance, and it worries her more than it worries me, and I think that’s the case in most families. She wouldn’t approve of a gov’t plan, but I think a lot of mothers do.
I think what’s needed is health insurance reform, not gov’t run health care.
I'll conceed that when it comes to our babies, loving mothers tend to think "survival first" and everything else later. Not all women are loving mothers, but a great many are; we would willingly go to great lengths without question or pause for the sake of our children.
When the argument is framed in terms of a greater good or heroic ideal, however, most loving mothers will come down on the side of that ideal. Freedom versus beaurocracy, choice and care versus death panels, etc.
If we want to reach women, we have to speak to their heart. When it comes to their children, that is where their heart is.