Digby: Panting For Attention

You would think that after Britney Spears' well publicized problems getting in out of cars in a dress, nobody would question any public woman's choice to wear pants. No such luck:

Women have come a long way from the time when wearing a pair of pants was considered "borrowing from the boys." So it would be highly regressive to suggest that the candidate is using trousers to heighten the perception that she can be as tough as a man. And yet . . .