There's a terrific article in the Philadelphia Inquirer today about the hostile reception Sarah Palin has faced:

I cannot predict who will win the presidential campaign, but I already know who will lose big: all women.

I realized this when I saw a 20-something male student who attends a class in the community college where I teach, wearing a T-shirt that read, "Sarah Palin is a C-." He wore it in public, in broad daylight, and without shame or even consciousness of what he was doing.

McCaffrey doesn't mention it, but what's really taken me by surprise is that the people who seem to hate Palin the most are women. I've ended a 17-year friendship with a woman I went to college with over her frothing, boundless rage and disgusting remarks about Sarah Palin. Seeing all the hate come rushing out of her, I realized that I never really knew her at all.

[Palin deserves our respect - Philadelphia Inquirer]