Today the Washington Post reports on the deep admiration women have toward Sarah Palin and her potential impact on the 2008 election:

If it is a small but energized group of Republican women, it could have only marginal impact; if it is more, it could tip the balance of the campaign. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Palin has also mobilized liberal women.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are apparently trying to help. Obama’s remark yesterday about “lipstick on a pig” was an outrageous insult.

But it gets worse. Obama later said Palin is an “interesting story,” suggesting that her accomplishments as governor of Alaska are trivial. He continued:

Look, she’s new, she hasn’t been on the scene, she’s got five kids. And my hat goes off to anybody whose looking after five. I’ve got two and they tire Michelle and me out.

Biden isn’t much better. Earlier this week, he insinuated that Palin, mother of a baby with Down syndrome, wasn’t truly committed to special needs children:

I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy … and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. … Well, guess what, folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?

Keep it up, boys, you’re bound to blow this thing.