In the continuing effort to coin new labels for those who go over the top in their dysrational biases about political figures - remember BDS? - a new one has evolved.

Y'all well know that I really don't like Sarah Palin. In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this. And I find the whole schtick about how the media is just a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her really grating.

That's why I really wish the media wouldn't act like, well, a bunch of elitist hooligans who are out to get her. I've coined a new phrase to cover the situation: Palinoia. It's when you think people are out to get you, and then they do their best to justify your erroneous belief. . .

There seems to be an unhealthy obsession with tearing her down. And really, guys, if you'll just back off a little, she'll do the job for you.

I don't like politicians. Period. I think that it is only those who are capable of liking some politicians who are also capable of hate. IMV one should be embarrassed in either case.

Palin is an interesting case. To me she is quite ordinary, a western power MILF, one of many that pepper the once-frontier states of the west. I know a dozen of them personally in my small town. They make sense to me. They are bright enough and mature enough to employ their talents to gather power to themselves. I seldom like them or admire their choices, but they aren't bizarre or threatening to some exceptional degree.

There is something special about such women who achieve high rank by using their natural talents wisely rather than by denying their femininity and aping men. There's something almost liberating about them. They break the old frumpy mold of female success. Though I don't like any politician and find her political views to be distasteful in some cases, I've enjoyed her presence on the scene.

It has been good for our local power-MILFs to see one of their own in the spotlight, even when they have diametrically opposed politics. I talked with one local girl about it. She's not young - her husband is 89 and she's some probably small but undisclosed amount younger - but she fully understood what had happened. Women like herself, though some decades younger - were at long last seen in a clearer light. Their form and style weren't liabilities, not a failure to adopt the trappings of a serious player, they were further evidence of suitability. They had a higher psycho-sexual maturity than their uptight sisters, and that is an attribute of one who can more easily be trusted with power.

I look forward to more women like her in politics. Perhaps one of them in future will be more to my strictly limited and always tepid liking. One attribute of power-MILFs that I know personally is a disdain for the pervasive victimology of the current crop of political women. They lash their younger sisters who are tempted to descend to that level, thinking that they can profit from that position, or even believing the ruse. Such self-limitation disgusts them.

Female power is different but no less potent than male power, perhaps more so, and they have nothing to regret or apologize for. Their politics is about enabling people - male or female - to develop and prosper according to their talent and energy rather than being coddled and constrained by authority. In part what appeals to me about this is that acceptance of the old female-as-victim nonsense has been as bad for males as females. Society as a whole has been dumbed down, powered down, and we are suffering adverse consequences at a time when we face some daunting threats and most need whole and healthy humans to cope with them.