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By calling herself a mama grizzly, Sarah Palin implies that she would stop at nothing to defend her young from attack ["A Foot in the Race," July 26]. However, in 2008 she chose the opportunity for personal advancement, knowing full well that by doing so she would expose her pregnant 17-year-old daughter to national embarrassment and ridicule. I have a daughter a few years older than Bristol, and I cannot imagine a scenario in which I would throw my child to the wolves. Palin has every right to follow her dreams, but her self-righteous posturing to generate political buzzwords is hypocritical.

Bethany Parsons Perry, GROSSE POINTE WOODS, MICH.

It comes as no surprise to me that Palin is having success reaching out to the "mom vote." Too often the Democratic Party has allowed stay-at-home moms to be characterized as uneducated and unmotivated.

Kelly Cahill Thompson, GRASS VALLEY, CALIF.

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