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Crouse Denounces Attacks on Strong, Charismatic Female Leader 7/7/2009

Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is appalled at the continued distortions and personal attacks fomented by the recent resignation of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who is unapologetically also a woman, wife, mother and evangelical believer.

Janice Shaw Crouse, political commentator for CWALAC, says, “No one should be surprised that Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska; she and her family have endured the kind of despicable attacks that define the phrase, ‘politics of personal destruction.’ The coarse attacks on a strong, charismatic female leader would be bad enough, but those who hate Sarah Palin and the values that she lives out in her daily life took their abuse beyond the pale when they launched invectives against her children. Had those kinds of attacks been launched against a black candidate and been racial in nature, there would have been public outrage, but the attackers thought that an attractive conservative female candidate was fair game.

“Where are the feminists and those who cried foul anytime someone mildly criticized Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton or the Obama girls?” Crouse asks. “The double standard concerning the media’s treatment of Sarah Palin and her family is beyond belief. Worse, the unprecedented vitriol sets a new low for dirty politics.”

“We have not seen the last of Sarah Palin,” says Crouse. “She is not the kind of person who gives in to bullies, but she is the kind of mother who protects her children — something that those who hate her don’t seem to understand. She found a way to thrive in local and statewide politics in Alaska. She will find a way to come back to national politics, and she’ll be a formidable force when she does.”