Kathryn Lopez: What Women Don't Want

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What women don't want is Obama's fundamental transformation of the republic Dr. Franklin said the founders had given us if we can keep it. With her "Mama Grizzlies" video, Sarah Palin has sent a clear message that women are determined to keep it. In order to accomplish that, they might well make a transformation of their own. They have the tea parties as a vehicle to drive first principles home in what is shaping up to be a landmark political year. And more than "a few good men" are willing to fight by their sides. Kathryn Lopez gives her take on all this in her latest Townhall.com column:

Good advertising is not everything in politics, but it sure doesn't hurt. Kellyanne Conway, a prominent pollster and CEO, says that Palin "is calling for a 'Moms' Mobilization' to encourage millions of women like her to tell Washington to tighten its belt the way they have ... Palin is a good messenger for this mobilization because she is one of them. They may like her -- or not -- but they are LIKE her: a working mom with no Ivy League degree, who thinks Washington's 'new math' does not add up."

Many political observers thought Palin's video was the opening salvo -- or, at least trailer -- in the media star's 2012 presidential campaign. When, days later, her PAC issued impressive second-quarter fundraising results, that speculation only continued. But to focus on Palin is to underestimate what's going on in American politics.

It's not just Palin or even the scads of other attractive woman who are running for office as Republicans; this "year of conservative women" is manifesting itself in a big way in the Tea Party movement...

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John Paul II called it the "feminine genius." Alexis de Tocqueville chivalrously observed it in us: "If anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women."

The rise of the mama grizzlies hardly spells the "end of men," Claremont's Pitney emphasizes, knowing that one prominent magazine recently declared just that. It's simply confirmation, once again, of the complementarily of the sexes and the gifts each one brings to the table, essential even for politics.

Read K-Lo's full op-ed at Townhall.com.

- JP