Reply #9: She appeals to big dumb men

[Lydia Leftcoast]

i.e. the typical wingnut voter. I once heard a social psychologist explain student attitudes toward female professors. The upshot was that the less capable male college students (the ones who were there only because their parents made them go), liked only two types of female professors: the ones who could be thought of as "hot" and the ones who acted motherly. The rest of us were out of luck as far as that population was concerned.

That same immature attitude carries over into the typical right-wing voter.

Wingnut women like Palin and Bachmann because, as Studs Terkel said of Reagan voters, she "makes it OK to be stupid."