Why Would Any Intelligent Woman Vote For Sarah Palin For Vice-President? Pam Atherton suggests some reasons why.

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I don’t know Pam Atherton, but I read her post today (at Huffington Post). She talked with a few friends who are therapists. They suggested some reasons why some intelligent women will be voting for Sarah Palin.

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The reason Ms. Atherton found the most compelling was that women are relationship-oriented and tend to feel they have a relationship with their politician. And just as in love, when everything is new and flaws are overlooked, women have fallen IN LOVE WITH THE IDEA of a woman in the White House. Read the entire post:Why Some Smart Women Think Palin is a Good Choice.

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Pam Atherton

Posted October 24, 2008 | 08:17 AM (EST)

Why Some Smart Women Think Palin is a Good Choice

She told me that many women idealize their relationship partners. They see all the positive characteristics about that person and ignore the bad. This is especially true, Dr. Susan added, in the beginning of a relationship.

Okay. This I get. Who hasn’t fallen in love with the “idea” that we have created of a person, instead of the actual person? And lots of really smart women have done that!

So for whatever reason they have chosen, some smart women have fallen in love with the “idea” of Sarah Palin. She’s smart. She’s gutsy. She’s a woman. And she would be the first woman ‘this close’ to the Presidency.

And what happens when these smart women are presented with contradictory evidence? “Let’s go back to the relationship analogy,” Dr. Susan says. “When our eyes finally open to someone, we have choices. We can either get out of the relationship (divorce), or we stay and deal with the cognitive dissonance.”

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