One of Sarah Palin's "Mama Grizzlys", Carly Fiorina, may suffer mightily for her association with the failed half term governor.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

With five months to go before the general election in California, political observers suggested attempts to redefine Fiorina as a feminist in a new mold - one shaped in part by Palin's conservative, family pro-life agenda - will sharpen the contrast between the Republican and Boxer, a liberal senator and self-described feminist first elected to the Senate in 1992, the "Year of the Woman."

"Every five or ten years someone says, 'This is the new face of feminism,' " said Sacramento author and women's activist Camille Hayes. "When people say 'pro-woman feminism,' my suspicion is what they mean is 'pro-traditional, feminine' feminism ... that old-school rap about feminists being hairy-legged, man-haters evolved in the 1970s is a (public relations) challenge that the movement has always had."

Efforts to tie Fiorina to the more controversial figure of Palin - and to remind voters of her conservative stance on abortion rights - may have political as well as financial implications in blue-leaning California.

On one hand, associating Fiorina with Palin may boost the GOP candidate's fundraising among conservatives, activists and Tea Partiers in other states. Those sources could be crucial if the national party is pressured to put its resources into Senate races in less-costly battlegrounds elsewhere, including Arkansas, Nevada and Kentucky.

But there's a downside to the association with the controversial 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate, said Democratic strategist Dan Newman.

"Among California swing voters, BP, Goldman Sachs and Dick Cheney are all more popular than Sarah Palin," he wryly noted.

I will always be confounded by the fact that just because somebody like Sarah Palin CLAIMS to represent Christianity and family values, while everything they do seems to contradict  that claim, that it is enough to fool so many people into believing they are the genuine article.

In fact Palin is a distant uninvolved mother, and has been for the majority of her children's lives.  If not for Todd her children would probably have run wild in the streets of Wasilla, and damn near did in spite of his efforts to corral them. And let's not even get started concerning the origins of her fifth child.

If Sarah Palin represents the "new feminism" it is a feminism that promotes illusion over substance, subterfuge over honesty, and ego gratification over empathy. In short it is the kind of feminism that Carly Fiorina would no doubt feel quite comfortable wrapping around herself.

Let's see if the sophisticated people living in California are better equipped to see through Fiorina's camouflage  than my fellow Alaskans were able to see through Palin's.

Considering the baggage that Fiorina already carries with her from her failed tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, one would think that grabbing onto the anchor of Sarah Palin in the deep blue sea of California politics would prove fatal.  But if Fiorina somehow manages to pull it off, AND defeats the popular Barbara Boxer, I am afraid that Sarah Palin will be re-energized in a way that will give her vast credibility in the Republican party, and put her at the top of the GOP ticket in 2012.