Some of the most thoughtful and interesting comments about Sarah Palin, and about the reaction to her...

...are at TalkLeft, a liberal blog I like to read from time to time.  Seriously.  This thread is worth a read.

One commenter says:

Is this really what the Lefty Blogosphere is all about.  We are actually calling women "C*nts" now?  This is why we supported the ERA?  This is the best we can come up with, that McCain is old and deformed and his running mate is a "C*nt"?  This is the brilliant battle plan?  Hell, Kos should just put a picture of Palin's newest kid on a package of "Downy" and pick on him for a while.  Let's just all turn into Michelle Malkin and reach for the Lowest Common Denominator, maybe Palin, the "C*nt" that she is, has some granite counter tops or some other scandalous thing.  This is not my progressive movement anymore, and as far as I'm concerned anyone who suborns that kind of nonsense, like Kos, is no better than Michelle Malkin.  Obama or any of his acolytes could shut this garbage down in a day if they so desired, but I guess they don't.  Pretty.  Fracking.  Stoooooopid.

  I expected to see some misogyny, but I didn't think the "C word" would be deployed quite as freely as it has been, quite so quickly. (A little Googling is instructive) I ought to know better than to look at online comments at newspaper sites, but the one in my own home town... It only took a few comments before the word "whore" appeared, and only a few more comments passed before the first suggestion that Gov. Palin had no business running for office when she should stay home and take care of her children.

Wow.

A CLARIFICATION:  TalkLeft is not the blog that's originating these misogynistic comments.  Most of the commenters in the thread I linked are, rightly, dismayed to see their fellow "progressives" (mostly on other liberal blogs) using such awful terms to describe a high-achieving woman. 

Yes:  I am interested in what reasonable people on both sides of the political spectrum think about all the candidates.  And it appears that reasonable people on the left are horrified at the ad hominem (feminam?) attacks on Governor Palin.

UPDATE: (And on her daughter.)

UPDATE:  Here's another good, interesting, thoughtful, NOT insulting thread about Gov. Palin on a liberal blog.  Just to show you that such things can and do exist.

Comments

[Margaret in Minnesota]

Wow is right. That is why I don't read those blogs, Erin. I prefer to stay home and take care of my children, and when the day comes around I vote "Pro-Life."

It's not the most politically aware of stances and I know it, but I am far less distracted and ANGRY as I go about my day.

[bearing]

Margaret: TalkLeft isn't "one of those blogs." The commenters there are decrying the appearance of this language on "those blogs."

They are liberals who are, in my opinion, quite correctly upset that so called "progressives" have turned to such ugly words to describe a high-achieving woman.

Just a clarification.

[Barbara C.]

I've actually seen a discussion about how appropriate it is for the mother of a young child to run for v.p. on a conservative forum for women. And I am sure that groups like Promisekeepers who ask places to not allow female wait-staff when they have big meetings aren't too happy, either. So these things aren't just coming from the "Left".

Of course, the bad language people are probably just trolls looking to stir things up.