Women candidates--aren't they just the cutest things?

If the Democrats have their way, the 2006 Congressional elections will be the revenge of the mommy party.

That's the lead in Robin Toner's New York Times story, "Women Wage Key Campaigns for Democrats." The article is about all of the Democratic women who are running major campaigns in about a dozen House races. The idea, of course, is that every time voters are disgusted, they are likely to turn to female candidates for change.

That, of course, is not altogether true, since the American people, even at their most disgusted, have not turned to a woman candidate for president. That is, after all, a big job. Nor am I sure that people still believe that women will be honest and not make the same back room deals that men have made for years.

But all that aside, the mommy party? The news media cannot write about women without saying something cute and offensive. Women are important candidates...hurry, let's say something dismissive of them.

If you want to write to Toner, please be my guest.