If you are using misogyny to advance your arguments against  John McCain's choice of running mates, you are giving disaffected women every reason to withhold their votes or use them for McCain/Palin.

DON'T do it.

Write about Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy expertise and how badly that reflects on McCain's judgment, NOT how "babelicious" she is.

Feel free to blog about Palin's abuse of power as Alaska governor, but NOT while using the acronyms MILF, VPILF or similar demeaning terms.

Have a blast blasting her coziness to oil interests, but do NOT suggest she is "in bed" with said interests.

It's fine to discuss Palin's rabid anti-abortion views, but do NOT discuss her children — ANY of them. Attacking a candidate's family is off limits for all but the most wretched political slimers.

Belittle Palin's qualifications, NOT her achievements.

Treat Palin as you would any candidate, NOT as a woman candidate.

Let McCain's own misogyny inform voters, NOT yours.

Focus your blogging on McCain, NOT fascination with his odd choice of Palin. His brash choice is meant to distract our attention to her and keep the public and press from using the microscope where it is needed most: on McCain.