Mama grizzly
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Mama grizzly is a term that former U.S. vice presidential candidate and Alaska
governor Sarah Palin
coined to refer to herself, then later applied to female candidates she supported or endorsed in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Palin first used the term in a May 2010 speech at a fundraiser for the Susan B. Anthony List
, a pro-life
women's group, and used it in a July 2010 YouTube
video produced by SarahPAC
, Palin's political action committee
, for the 2010 elections
. By September 2010, "mama grizzly" was deemed to be "part of the lexicon" of the election by Newsweek magazine. It has never been made clear if the term is meant to refer to all women candidates supported by the former governor, or if it is just a general concept about real-life moms entering politics because they fear for their children's future.
The grizzly bear
(Ursus arctos horribilis), a subspecies of the brown bear
(Ursus arctos), is known for its aggressiveness; females are especially protective of their young. The state of Alaska is home to more than 70 percent of the grizzly population in the world.
During her tenure as Governor, Palin chose a design showing a grizzly bear grasping a salmon
in its mouth as Alaska's contribution to the 50 State Quarters series of commemorative coins. At the April 2007 unveiling of the design, Palin said, "I like to think this is a mama grizzly doing what she does best: taking care of her young."
By October 2008, Palin's usage of the bear metaphor
to describe herself was reported in a New York Times article, "Provoking Palin's Inner Bear," which quotes her as saying that negative media coverage about her children makes, "the mama grizzly bear in me [come] out, makes me want to rear up on my hind legs and say, ‘Wait a minute.’" Soon, other media outlets began picking up on Palin's self-description. In January 2009, Margery Eagan
of the Boston Herald
penned a column, "Unbearable Mama Grizzly clawing way to Oval Office" in which she noted that a YouTube interview of Palin had nearly three quarters of a million views, proving "that mama 'grizzly,' as she called herself, remains irresistible." The Vancouver, Washington newspaper, The Columbian
, commented in January 2009 that, "Sarah Palin is on the prowl, snorting that when the media poke fun at her family, it brings out the mama grizzly in her." The connection between Palin and "mamma grizzly" was made internationally in July 2009 when the New Delhi, India-based Hindustan Times
reported on a Palin tweet
describing mama grizzly bears in Alaska. In August 2009, an opinion piece in The Columbian suggested that Sarah Palin could serve as a Mama Grizzly head of a third or a fourth U.S. political party.
Speaking before the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List organization in May 2010, Palin called certain novice female political candidates running in the 2010 election "momma grizzlies". Referring to her earlier self-description as a "pit-bull" in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, she said, Later that day, Shannon Bream
of the Fox News Channel
reported that, "Palin says, women who she calls Mama Grizzlies will lead a national Republican
wave in November." In July 2010, Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, released a video pushing the mama grizzly meme
as representing herself and "her fiercely independent, common sense conservative
" candidates.
The day after the 2010 midterm elections, Palin released a video showing a montage of her winning grizzly candidates, a roaring grizzly bear, and narration in which she says "this is our morning in America
".
, a political action committee that supports pro-choice
female candidates, launched a website and a video ad called "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me," to oppose Palin, her "radical agenda," and the candidates she had endorsed. In the video, women dressed as bears say they are "mama grizzlies" who fight for their cubs' right to choose
, and that is why they oppose Palin and her candidates. Politico
reporter Andy Barr
described the ad as an attempt "to raise money off of Sarah Palin and the vitriol that she inspires".
New York Times columnist Gail Collins
said the use of the term made it seem as if there were more female Republican candidates running for high office than there actually were, and remarked that their Democratic counterparts "suffer from the lack of a cool name".
In September 2010, Newsweek reported that the mama grizzly term was now "a familiar part of the lexicon" but questioned whether the grizzly candidates stood for policies that were good for women and children.
published an article titled "In South Dakota, Democrats' own 'mama grizzly' vs. 'the next Sarah Palin' " which uses the term to refer to South Dakota's Democratic party nominee for U.S. Representative, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, as well as its Republican nominee, Kristi Noem
, though at the time the article was written, neither candidate had been endorsed by Palin.
In Slate
, Noreen Malone used the term to describe conservative women at the Smart Girl Summit, and their effective use of social networking in 2010 political campaigns.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
governor Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
coined to refer to herself, then later applied to female candidates she supported or endorsed in the 2010 U.S. midterm elections. Palin first used the term in a May 2010 speech at a fundraiser for the Susan B. Anthony List
Susan B. Anthony List
The Susan B. Anthony List, or simply SBA List, is a 501 non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to eliminate abortion in the U.S. by supporting pro-life politicians, primarily women, through its SBA List Candidate Fund political action committee...
, a pro-life
Pro-life
Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...
women's group, and used it in a July 2010 YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
video produced by SarahPAC
SarahPAC
Sarah PAC is the political action committee of former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin. It was founded in 2009 following the resignation of Governor Palin. It endorses candidates for various offices, then organizes into local chapters in the United States of America and assists the candidate...
, Palin's political action committee
Political action committee
In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group, regardless of size, organized to elect political candidates or to advance the outcome of a political issue or legislation. Legally, what constitutes a "PAC" for purposes of regulation is a...
, for the 2010 elections
United States elections, 2010
The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 37 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate were contested in this election along with 38 state and territorial...
. By September 2010, "mama grizzly" was deemed to be "part of the lexicon" of the election by Newsweek magazine. It has never been made clear if the term is meant to refer to all women candidates supported by the former governor, or if it is just a general concept about real-life moms entering politics because they fear for their children's future.
Background
Grizzly Bear
The grizzly bear , also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear that generally lives in the uplands of western North America...
(Ursus arctos horribilis), a subspecies of the brown bear
Brown Bear
The brown bear is a large bear distributed across much of northern Eurasia and North America. It can weigh from and its largest subspecies, the Kodiak Bear, rivals the polar bear as the largest member of the bear family and as the largest land-based predator.There are several recognized...
(Ursus arctos), is known for its aggressiveness; females are especially protective of their young. The state of Alaska is home to more than 70 percent of the grizzly population in the world.
During her tenure as Governor, Palin chose a design showing a grizzly bear grasping a salmon
Salmon
Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...
in its mouth as Alaska's contribution to the 50 State Quarters series of commemorative coins. At the April 2007 unveiling of the design, Palin said, "I like to think this is a mama grizzly doing what she does best: taking care of her young."
Palin as a mama grizzly
Nearly one year later, while promoting the Alaska natural gas pipeline project to federal officials in Washington D.C., Palin said, "Don't tell me that we should ever be on our knees to any dictator because of our desperation for energy, not when we have supplies here at home." Referring to her son's imminent deployment to the Iraq War zone, she added, "This mama grizzly ... has more reason than ever to protect our young."By October 2008, Palin's usage of the bear metaphor
Metaphor
A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels." Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via...
to describe herself was reported in a New York Times article, "Provoking Palin's Inner Bear," which quotes her as saying that negative media coverage about her children makes, "the mama grizzly bear in me [come] out, makes me want to rear up on my hind legs and say, ‘Wait a minute.’" Soon, other media outlets began picking up on Palin's self-description. In January 2009, Margery Eagan
Margery Eagan
Margery Eagan is a long time columnist with the Boston Herald, a talk radio host, and a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, Fox News, and the Imus in the Morning radio show...
of the Boston Herald
Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...
penned a column, "Unbearable Mama Grizzly clawing way to Oval Office" in which she noted that a YouTube interview of Palin had nearly three quarters of a million views, proving "that mama 'grizzly,' as she called herself, remains irresistible." The Vancouver, Washington newspaper, The Columbian
The Columbian
The Columbian is a daily newspaper for Vancouver, Washington and Clark County in Washington State in the United States. The paper was published for its first decade as a four page daily that was meant as a counterweight to the local Republican newspaper The Independent. Printer Tom Carolan began...
, commented in January 2009 that, "Sarah Palin is on the prowl, snorting that when the media poke fun at her family, it brings out the mama grizzly in her." The connection between Palin and "mamma grizzly" was made internationally in July 2009 when the New Delhi, India-based Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
reported on a Palin tweet
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
describing mama grizzly bears in Alaska. In August 2009, an opinion piece in The Columbian suggested that Sarah Palin could serve as a Mama Grizzly head of a third or a fourth U.S. political party.
Palin endorsed candidates as mama grizzlies
Shannon Bream
Shannon Bream is an American journalist for the Fox News Channel. She is Fox News's Supreme Court reporter as well as the Anchor of America's News Headquarters on Sundays from 12:00-2:00 p.m...
of the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
reported that, "Palin says, women who she calls Mama Grizzlies will lead a national Republican
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
wave in November." In July 2010, Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, released a video pushing the mama grizzly meme
Meme
A meme is "an idea, behaviour or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena...
as representing herself and "her fiercely independent, common sense conservative
Common sense conservative
A common sense conservative is an advocate of conservative politics who adopts the rhetoric of "common sense" to frame his or her arguments. The term is almost always used to apply to domestic and fiscal policy...
" candidates.
The day after the 2010 midterm elections, Palin released a video showing a montage of her winning grizzly candidates, a roaring grizzly bear, and narration in which she says "this is our morning in America
Morning in America
"Morning in America" is the common name of an effective political campaign television commercial formally titled "Prouder, Stronger, Better" and featuring the opening line "It's morning again in America." The ad was part of the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign of Republican Party candidate Ronald...
".
Reaction
Emily's ListEMILY's List
EMILY's List is a political action committee in the United States that aims to help elect female candidates to office. It was founded by Ellen Malcolm in 1984....
, a political action committee that supports pro-choice
Pro-choice
Support for the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-choice movement, a sociopolitical movement supporting the ethical view that a woman should have the legal right to elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy....
female candidates, launched a website and a video ad called "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me," to oppose Palin, her "radical agenda," and the candidates she had endorsed. In the video, women dressed as bears say they are "mama grizzlies" who fight for their cubs' right to choose
Pro-choice
Support for the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-choice movement, a sociopolitical movement supporting the ethical view that a woman should have the legal right to elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy....
, and that is why they oppose Palin and her candidates. Politico
Politico (newspaper)
The Politico is an American political journalism organization based in Arlington, Virginia, that distributes its content via television, the Internet, newspaper, and radio. Its coverage of Washington, D.C., includes the U.S. Congress, lobbying, media and the Presidency...
reporter Andy Barr
Andy Barr
Andrew "Andy" Barr is a former professional footballer, who was most recently the Head Physiotherapist at Bolton Wanderers....
described the ad as an attempt "to raise money off of Sarah Palin and the vitriol that she inspires".
New York Times columnist Gail Collins
Gail Collins
Gail Gleason Collins is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with the New York Times. Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, from 2001 to 2007 she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor – the first woman to attain that position...
said the use of the term made it seem as if there were more female Republican candidates running for high office than there actually were, and remarked that their Democratic counterparts "suffer from the lack of a cool name".
In September 2010, Newsweek reported that the mama grizzly term was now "a familiar part of the lexicon" but questioned whether the grizzly candidates stood for policies that were good for women and children.
Challengers
| Photo | Candidate | Office | State | Date | Endorsed via | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharron Angle Sharron Angle Sharron Elaine Angle is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007. She ran unsuccessfully as the 2010 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Nevada, garnering 45 percent of the vote... |
U.S. Senate United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each... |
Nevada | 08-18-2010 | Facebook Facebook Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as... |
Lost general election (Palin's endorsement came after Republican primary) | |
| Kelly Ayotte Kelly Ayotte Kelly A. Ayotte is the junior United States Senator from New Hampshire and a member of the Republican Party. She earlier served as the Attorney General of New Hampshire.-Early life, education and career:... |
U.S. Senate | New Hampshire | 07-19-2010 | Won | ||
| Cecile Bledsoe Cecile Bledsoe Cecile Bledsoe is a member of the Arkansas Senate and a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. She was a candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 but was defeated in the Republican primary. Her candidacy was endorsed by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List... |
U.S. House of Representatives United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution... |
Arkansas | 06-03-2010 | Lost Republican runoff (Palin's endorsement came between the Republican primary and the runoff) | ||
| Pam Bondi Pam Bondi Pamela Jo Bondi is the current Attorney General of Florida.-Early life and education:Bondi's hometown is Temple Terrace, Florida. Her father, Joseph Bondi, was a City Councilman and then Mayor of Temple Terrace. She is a graduate of C. Leon King High School in Tampa, Florida... |
State Attorney General | Florida | 08-18-2010 | Won | ||
| Ann Marie Buerkle Ann Marie Buerkle Ann Marie Buerkle is the U.S. Representative for , elected in 2010 in an upset of incumbent Dan Maffei. She is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life and career:... |
U.S. House of Representatives | New York | 07-12-2010 | Won general election (did not face a Republican primary) | ||
| Renee Ellmers Renee Ellmers Renee Jacisin Ellmers is the U.S. Representative for . She is a member of the Republican Party. Ellmers defeated seven-term Democratic incumbent Bob Etheridge by 1,489 votes, confirmed after a recount.... |
U.S. House of Representatives | North Carolina | 08-18-2010 | Won general election (Palin's endorsement came after Republican primary) | ||
 |
Mary Fallin Mary Fallin Mary Fallin is the 27th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. She was a U.S. Representative for from 2007 until 2011.... |
Governor | Oklahoma | 06-17-2010 | Won | |
| Brenna Findley | State Attorney General | Iowa | 08-18-2010 | Lost general election (did not face a Republican primary) | ||
| Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina is an American business executive and a former Republican candidate for the United States Senate representing California. Fiorina served as chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005 and previously was an executive at AT&T and its equipment and technology spinoff,... |
U.S. Senate | California | 05-06-2010Endorsement made prior to the public unveiling of the term "mama grizzly" | Press Release | Lost general election | |
| Nikki Haley Nikki Haley Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley is the 116th and current Governor of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, Haley represented Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2010.... |
Governor | South Carolina | 05-14-2010 | Appearance with candidate | Won | |
| Karen Handel Karen Handel Karen C. Handel is an American politician in the state of Georgia who served as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2007 until her resignation in January 2010 when she ran for Governor of Georgia in the 2010 election as a Republican. She announced in December 2009 that she would resign as... |
Governor | Georgia | 07-12-2010 | Lost Republican primary | ||
| Vicky Hartzler Vicky Hartzler Vicky Jo Hartzler is the U.S. Representative for . She is a member of the Republican Party. She represented District 124 in the Missouri House from 1995 to 2000.-Early life:... |
U.S. House of Representatives | Missouri | 08-18-2010 | Won general election (Palin's endorsement came after the Republican primary) | ||
| Cecilia Heil | U.S. House of Representatives | Tennessee | 07-08-2010 | Lost Republican primary | ||
| Susana Martinez Susana Martinez Susana Martinez is the 31st and current governor of New Mexico.A Republican, Martinez is the first female governor of New Mexico, as well as the first female Hispanic governor in the United States. She was formerly the district attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of the U.S. state of New Mexico... |
Governor | New Mexico | 05-14-2010 | Won | ||
| Rita Meyer Rita Meyer Rita C. Meyer currently serves Wyoming's 19th State Auditor and was a candidate for Governor of Wyoming in the 2010 Wyoming gubernatorial election. She lost to Matt Mead on August 17, 2010 by approximately 700 votes.-Early life and education:... |
Governor | Wyoming | 07-30-2010 | Lost Republican primary | ||
| Angela McGlowan Angela McGlowan Angela McGlowan is a political commentator and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights , a government affairs, political strategy, public relations, and advocacy consulting firm based in Oxford, Mississippi, with an office in Washington, D.C... |
U.S. House of Representatives | Mississippi | 06-01-2010 (election day) |
Lost Republican primary | ||
| Linda McMahon Linda McMahon Linda Marie McMahon is an American professional wrestling magnate and politician. She is notable for her career developing WWE with her husband Vince McMahon. She was in the company from 1980 to 2009. During this time, WWE grew from a small regional business in New York to a large multinational... |
U.S. Senate | Connecticut | Not endorsed by Palin | Lost general election, won primary | ||
| Kristi Noem Kristi Noem Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem is the U.S. Representative for , serving since January 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and has been elected to the Republican Leadership for the 112th Congress as one of its two freshman representatives... |
U.S. House of Representatives | South Dakota | No specific endorsement date | Mention in Palin's book, America by Heart | Won General Election | |
| Christine O'Donnell Christine O'Donnell Christine Therese O'Donnell is an American Republican Party politician who founded two advocacy organizations. She has been an advocate for nonprofit clients and nonprofit causes for nearly 20 years. A Tea Party favorite, and with strong financial support from the Tea Party movement, she defeated... |
U.S. Senate | Delaware | 09-09-2010 | Call into Sean Hannity Sean Hannity Sean Hannity is an American radio and television host, author, and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Sean Hannity Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show that airs throughout the United States on Premiere Radio Networks. Hannity also hosts a cable news show, Hannity,... radio show |
Lost general election | |
| Star Parker Star Parker Star Parker is an American syndicated columnist, social critic, book author, and conservative political activist. In 2010 she was the Republican candidate for California's 37th congressional district, but was defeated in the general election.Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard... |
U.S. House of Representatives | California | 06-17-2010 | Lost general election (did not face a Republican primary) | ||
| Martha Roby Martha Roby Martha Dubina Roby is the U.S. Representative for . She is a member of the Republican Party. She narrowly defeated incumbent Representative Bobby Bright on November 2 during the United States House of Representatives elections in Alabama, 2010 and assumed office in January 2011.-Early life,... |
U.S. House of Representatives | Alabama | 08-18-2010 | Won (Palin's endorsement came after the Republican primary) | ||
| Jackie Walorski Jackie Walorski Jackie Walorski was a Republican member of the Indiana House of Representatives representing the 21st district from 2005-2011. She won the Republican nomination, but lost the 2010 race for... |
U.S. House of Representatives | Indiana | 08-18-2010 | Lost general election (Palin's endorsement came after the Republican primary) | ||
| Meg Whitman Meg Whitman Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School... |
Governor | California | Not endorsed by Palin | Lost general election, won primary |
Incumbents
| Photo | Candidate | Office | State | Date | Endorsed via | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beth Chapman | Alabama Secretary of State | Alabama | 08-18-2010 | Re-elected; did not face a Republican primary | ||
| Michele Bachmann Michele Bachmann Michele Marie Bachmann is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing , a post she has held since 2007. The district includes several of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, such as Woodbury, and Blaine as well as Stillwater and St. Cloud.She is currently a... |
U.S. House of Representatives | Minnesota | 01-20-2010 | Re-elected; did not face a Republican primary | ||
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers | U.S. House of Representatives | Washington | Re-elected; won blanket primary Blanket primary The blanket primary is a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election in the USA. In a blanket primary, voters may pick one candidate for each office without regard to party lines; for instance, a voter might select a Democratic candidate for governor and a Republican... |
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Jan Brewer Jan Brewer Janice Kay "Jan" Brewer is the 22nd and current Governor of the U.S. state of Arizona and a member of the Republican Party. She is the fourth woman, and third consecutive woman, to hold the office... |
Arizona Governor | Arizona | Re-elected; won primary |
Other uses
On August 23, 2010, The Washington PostThe Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
published an article titled "In South Dakota, Democrats' own 'mama grizzly' vs. 'the next Sarah Palin' " which uses the term to refer to South Dakota's Democratic party nominee for U.S. Representative, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, as well as its Republican nominee, Kristi Noem
Kristi Noem
Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem is the U.S. Representative for , serving since January 2011. She is a member of the Republican Party and has been elected to the Republican Leadership for the 112th Congress as one of its two freshman representatives...
, though at the time the article was written, neither candidate had been endorsed by Palin.
In Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is a US-based English language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft as part of MSN. On 21 December 2004 it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...
, Noreen Malone used the term to describe conservative women at the Smart Girl Summit, and their effective use of social networking in 2010 political campaigns.
External links
- The Washington Post's Palin Endorsements Tracker (includes both male and female candidates)
- Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me - Emily's List response to Sarah Palin and her Mama grizzlies
- Sarah Palin tweets ode to mama grizzlies