Long before Sarah Palin hit the national scene, she wrote an op-ed making the exact argument that now applies to her own vice presidential candidacy. In it, she claimed that Frank Murkowski's support of the Violence Against Women Act -- written by Joe Biden -- made him a better candidate for governor than his female opponent, Fran Ulmer.
The time is 2002. Palin is just hitting the scene -- people are beginning to write letters to the editor asking that she be considered for higher office. But she gets passed over for lieutenant governor and then makes the argument that women should vote for a male candidate over a female candidate for governor of Alaska.
The actual statement, from the Anchorage Daily News, Nov. 4, 2002 (you have to buy it from their archives, so you can't link to it), below the fold...
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