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The article i read today is called "Hear Them Growl" by Lisa Miller, Arian Campo Flores, Eleanor Clift, Eve Conant, Andrew Romano, Daniel Stone, and Pat Wingert. This article is about Sarah Palin and her famous term "momma grizzly." According to Sarah Palin a mama grizzly is a mother who takes charge when she needs to protect her children from bad policies in Washington. Palin describes a mama grizzly as a different new kind of political predator. With a mama grizzly's fearlessness along with the mixture of her femaleness makes the mother quite scary. She says the mama grizzly's will take on any enemy and the result will be that they will be ripped to shreds. The first time this term was used was in Sarah Palin's 2008 vice presidential run. She continued using this term like in a speech she gave for a women's pro-life group. Soon Sarah Palin's political action committee recognized the power of this phrase and created an Internet ad appropriately named "Mama Grizzlies"Since Palin was obviously running as a republican vice-president and said that the mama grizzlies protect their kids from the bad things in Washington the name is particularly aimed at the conservative mothers. The article ask that with all this commotion about this term it  is fair to know what these mothers have actually done for their kids, or the kids of this country. It is shown that all these female conservative politician mothers, Sharron Angle for example, voted against a domestic violence issue that would recognize restraining orders that were issued in other states. Virtually all the grizzly's voted against policies that liberals would consider good fro children such as health care. This article could help a little in my research showing big impacts females have made in the political world but I think I could find more helpful topics.