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There's lots of reason Scott Brown won Teddy Kennedy's old Senate seat this week -- health care reform, cap-and-trade, the deficit, exasperation with Democratic rule. But there's one other that shouldn't be missed -- he ran as a guy and it's OK to be a regular guy again. A month ago in a column called "Put Men Back to Work" I wrote that taking up the cause of unemployed men should be a major campaign issue of the 2010 election. I also said I thought Sarah Palin was the only candidate who could handle the issue because it would seem...

... The [Republican] message [should be], "Put men back to work." Seventy-five percent of employees thrown out of work in the current recession have been men. We're about to pass the point where there are more women than men in the workforce. Obviously this idea is going to have a constituency. But it's not just men who will respond. There are millions of women out there who would like to see their men back working again as well. The reason men are out of work has nothing to do with feminism or "feminazis" or any of that stuff. The problem...