This Hockey Mom is Just.... Horse Hockey.

By Zamboni

A group of women's rights advocates are compiling a list of sexist comments made to or about prominent women in politics and government.

That must be some list. As in very, very long.

We cats fervently hope that it includes George H.W. Bush's graceless remark that he "kicked a little ass" in his 1984 debate with Geraldine Ferraro. Not to mention his wife's insistence that she didn't call Congresswoman Ferraro a bitch. (Classy people, those Bushes.)

And the insults against political women have only gotten worse in the last 25 years. But there's one supposedly sexist remark that we cats think is fair. It's about the famous quitter from Alaska.

Two years ago, a voter quoted in The Wall Street Journal wondered how a national political candidate could possibly provide quality parenting to a special-needs infant. "This is where I see the hypocrisy," the voter said. "When you're campaigning for vice president, you're on 24/7. Who's watching the baby?"

Who, indeed. We thought from the get-go that Palin — the self-styled, devoted "hockey mom" — was way too eager to shove her minor children into the unforgiving limelight. In short, as we are apt to do, we cats smelled a rat.

It is not sexist to call out a fraud who is raking in millions of dollars in part by marketing a persona based on "family values." We cats HISS.