One group of women that has been largely absent from the commentary on Palin are the dozen or so Republican women who really are qualified to be vice president. As the panicky McCain campaign beat the bushes for a woman, any woman, these public servants were just passed over without so much as a by-your-leave.
They include the two senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins; Senator Liddy Dole of North Carolina; Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas; former New Jersey governor and EPA Commissioner Christie Todd Whitman; Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell, and of course Secretary of State Condi Rice.