Palin is toast in one word: Headship

[Waiting For Everyman]

All it takes is one reporter or one surrogate to ask her what the Doctrine of Headship means, and if she believes it. If she were to takeover from McCain for any reason, HER HUSBAND would be running the country.

If you don't believe me, ask anybody in the religious right.

There's lots of material about this, it's no secret, but here's two sources I found in just looking quickly...

"Control Freaks and the Women Who Love Them"
http://www.newmanmag.com/display.php?id=818

"Christianity and Domestic Violence"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_domestic_violence

The Religious Right can't run away from this because all of the well-known leaders endorse this concept. Two quotes from Pat Robertson, but this one's the money-quote:

"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period..." (Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, January 8, 1992).

And this is the Religious Right's view about women's rights, maybe Palin should be asked whether she agrees:

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians."

Do PUMAs think we need that kind of viewpoint one heart-attack away from the Presidency? If Hillary-ites think the RR is kidding on that statement, they're not.