I spent hours this week fending off attacks from spammers, so I’m going to plant a little bomb and get reaction from you all. I’ll let you do the heavy lifting today.

Flanagan writes in Time magazine that despite having all the liberal credentials — voting Democratic, pro-choice, pro-environment — she finds no love from the Democratic party.

But despite all that, there is apparently no room for me in the Democratic Party. In fact, I have spent much of the past week on a forced march to the G.O.P. And the bayonet at my back isn’t in the hands of the Republicans; the Democrats are the bullyboys. Such lions of the left as Barbara Ehrenreich, the writers at Salon and much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan have made it abundantly clear to me that I ought to start packing my bags. I’m not leaving, but sometimes I wonder: When did I sign up to be the beaten wife of the Democratic Party?

Here’s why they’re after me: I have made a lifestyle choice that they can’t stand, and I’m not cowering in the closet because of it. I’m out, and I’m proud. I am a happy member of an exceedingly “traditional” family. I’m in charge of the house and the kids, my husband is in charge of the finances and the car maintenance, and we all go to church every Sunday.

I’ve read other bloggers scoff at this statement (links when I have time). They say that Flanagan is being judged harshly because she judges others harshly. They also say that it is natural to assume that Flanagan is a Republican, because she never writes about the environment or abortion.

Well, to be fair to Flanagan, she isn’t the first one to say this. While single women are highly likely to vote Democratic, married women seesaw between the two parties. Church going women in traditional relationships say don’t feel they fit in. They say that they are being sneered at.

If liberals are supposed to be non-judgy about lifestyle choices, shouldn’t liberals accept women who want to appoint their husbands as head of the household? (Tangent — You know the IRS made me declare that Steve was the head of the household. I really let my poor, 80 year old accountant get an earful.)

Should the Democratic party bring the housewife into the party tent? Does the Democratic party have a PR problem with the mommies? Can you have traditional family values and still vote for Kerry n’ Crew? Or is Flanagan being too sensitive?

(Thanks, Jeremy.)