*In my experience it tends to be women who make a lot of noise about other womens looks. *

Well exactly! I have yet to see anywhere in the financial press,
comments about what Gail Kelly of Westpac wears. But then that is
mainly read and commented on by men. Most men frankly could not give
a fig, if women are wearing the green or the red dress, not so for
other women. They can be pretty bitchy, when checking out other
women.

Palin is a a bit like Dan Quayle, the butt of endless jokes, as
neither has been considered to be a Rhodes scholar.