“By the time Palin took the stage, she no longer seemed like an Alaskan Annie Oakley, a gun-toting, hockey mom biker-gal, she’d become pioneer victim girl, Pauline tied to the train tracks by mean Democrats and the liberal media. But Palin shook off the victim mantle by coming out swinging, first blasting ‘the pollsters and the pundits’ for writing off McCain last year, then tearing into Barack Obama with glee, teeth bared like a Rudy Giuliani in heels. … When Palin wasn’t attacking Obama, she was praising McCain to the skies and talking up her family and her background. She’ll never be able to cry sexism again after describing herself as a ‘hockey mom’ and then asking: ‘You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick.’” (09/04/08)