It seems that it’s becoming pretty clear at FR that there is something seriously wrong with attitudes towards women politicians. Since I am often on Bachmann and Palin threads, perhaps I get hit with it more than you. But it’s pretty obvious that you, too, are seeing it.
One would have to be blind not to.
Interesting fact that foreign conservative female politicans (Lady Thatcher for instance) are always fêted at FR. But then they will never run in a US election.
Similarly, the vitriol spewed at Lady Thatcher then (and now) in Britain far surpasses anything any other PM has had to endure.
But still history has given rise to many successful female politicians and rulers who despite having "the body but of a weak and feeble woman"; have had the "heart and stomach of a king". Woe to the men who despise such women.