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Now that's either a foolish statement, or the Jews who actually did despise her are fools themselves. Do you think that Jews should despise her because she owns guns and hunts moose, as no less an authority on the issue as black Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings claimed?

I'm Jewish and I liked Palin and still do. I'd be confident that just about all Jewish conservatives would agree with me. Frankly, I can't see any sane reason whatsoever why being Jewish should cause someone to dislike her, as if she were a female version of Adolf Hitler. The fact of the matter is that Palin is definitively pro-Israel and, if anything, is philo-semitic.

I've been absolutely baffled by not just the disagreement, but outright hatred displayed by many Jews, especially Jewish women, towards Sarah Palin. When I'd ask about it, I never received any sort of a thought out answer. It was visceral, mostly driven by the merciless hammering of the media, as well as the so called entertainers. On more than one occasion, I got the "She's so dumb she said she can see Russia from her back yard." They didn't believe it was actually Tina Fey until I showed them on YouTube. Then, it was "funny."

I think a part of it was she was young, vivacious, intelligent, and independent. I think that many women, "city girls" especially, were put off by her love of guns, fishing, hunting, and the outdoors, as being "unlady-like."

I think another reason for most liberals' vitriol towards Sarah was her stance on abortion, her acceptance of Bristol's out of wedlock birth, and most importantly, her decision to have Trigg, a baby born with birth defects. She made the conscious decision to have that baby, showing that she REALLY stands by her pro-life values, and I think that for most liberals, it shames them. And that shame leads to their hatred.

Mark

I think that many women, "city girls" especially, were put off by her love of guns, fishing, hunting, and the outdoors, as being "unlady-like."

It's a matter of cultural differences and parochialism and narrow-mindedness on the part of those "city girls." Even "city people" should be able to fathom that Americans, even women, from the wide open spaces of the rural and small-town West, into which Palin was born and raised, commonly enjoy those pastimes without having any sinister motives attached to them.

There seems to be a big gap between what liberal women, and especially liberal Jewish women, say and do about abortion. I've met a number of these types who will rant about "a women's right to choose." They can speak out oh so vociferously. But, to the best of my knowledge, I've never met a Jewish woman in my life whom I know to have actually had an elective abortion. Maybe you could explain this phenomenon.