Kathleen Parker, who inexplicably passes for conservative, spent muchof a recent column praising Sarah Palin's ability to market herself.While not exactly lauding Mama Grizzly on substance, Parker, perhapswith tongue slightly in cheek, acknowledged Palin's knack for definingthe issues, remaining relevant and keeping her critics on edge."Instead of changing her tune," Parker writes, "she turns up thevolume… Don't like her little red shoes? She'll add a red leatherjacket."
Provoking eye rolls, Parker compares herself to Palin, recalling herappearances to promote her book Save the Males: “I wore an aggressivelyfeminine suit — pink with a bow in the back — just to irritatehard-line feminists.”
Thus begins Chapter 1, Profiles In Courage: The Mushy ModeratesEdition. Parker, you see, routinely showers liberals, such as the latecolumnist Molly Ivins, with gushing praise, yet she achieved hergreatest fame to date by suggesting in 2008 that Sarah Palin removeherself from the GOP ticket. She wrote, “A brilliant 75-year oldscholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine, ‘I'm sexuallyattracted to her. I don't care that she knows nothing.’”
Parker couldn't defend arguably the most conservative — and maligned— nominee on a Republican ticket since Reagan before her wine-sippingcompatriots, not even by donning a feminine suit with a bow in the backto show solidarity with a sister conservative.
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