I understand your point but it is, as you say, “low-brow politics” and I don’t care for that. Why cater to that ‘feminist’ silliness? The point is not to ‘win-at-all-costs’ but to win through ideas and integrity.
the ideas and integrity gets you the base. the stronger and more integrity gets you more of the base. It is the low-brow politics that gets you the squishy moderates. The group that everyone says Palin needs to win over. this sadly is how you win them over. They do not vote based on ideas or integrity. they vote on emotion on being part of history, on being on the winning side. this is the stuff that you do to get the moderates.