GOP Plays the Gender Card

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk The First Lady said that supporters of Barack Obama would risk charges of sexism if they continue to launch personal attacks on Mrs Palin. Mrs Bush spoke out on the first day of the Republican convention in St Paul, Minnesota, curtailed by the threat of Hurricane Gustav and dominated by the revelation that Mrs Palin’s 17-year-old daughter Bristol is five months pregnant. “The other side will have to be particularly careful,” the First Lady said. Asked if the noisy reaction to the story is evidence of sexism in the American media, which Hillary Clinton claimed to have identified during her battle with Mr Obama, Mrs Bush said: “I think that's a possibility.”

Before you say this is just Laura Bush speaking for Laura Bush, consider this:

I am appalled by the Obama campaign's attempts to belittle Governor Sarah Palin's experience. The facts are that Sarah Palin has made more executive decisions as a Mayor and Governor than Barack Obama has made in his life. Because of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the Presidency and the treatment she received, American women are more highly tuned than ever to recognize and decry sexism in all its forms. They will not tolerate sexist treatment of Governor Palin.
-HP's former CEO Carly Fiorina and RNC fundraiser, quoted in RNC press release

The McCain camp, who wanted everyone to freak out when Obama supposedly "played the race card," are now claiming that any criticism of Sarah Palin is sexist.

The Republican Party; never one to shy away from blatant hypocrisy.