I'd bet that to some extent Sarah Palin is happy to exaggerate her sexuality and use it as an aggressive political tool against the men that make up the majority of the political sphere, as many women tend to — it can work, after all. But surely women such as Palin, Smith and May deserve as much serious political criticism as the men do. 

Do we really want a woman making it to the White House just because she chooses the right lipstick?