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Elle magazine is finally recognizing something that most of us have known for a long time: conservative women are hot.

Few things are as disappointing to a man as seeing a beautiful woman who instantly turns ugly the moment she opens her mouth to speak. Fortunately for those of us who have chosen wisely, that’s not a disappointment we have to deal with on a daily basis. Unlike the metrosexual crowd who prefers their better halves more milquetoast, as Tina over at HotAir says:

Yes, it’s cool that conservative gals are comfortable with their index finger on a trigger, that they finish their meal when a date orders them an expensive steak and that they’re open to the all-American pastimes of football, baseball and NASCAR. But none of that is essential to conservatism — standing for the right to enjoy all of that (along with more traditionally “feminine” pursuits) is.

By Tina’s reckoning, the article is “fair” to conservative women, but as she says,

We’ve come a long way when the adjective “fair” means merely “an absence of unnecessarily cheap shots.”

Tina points out the various digs at conservative women taken in the Elle article, e.g., referring to conservative women as “baby Palins.” But, if we can compound Elle’s unfairness with our own, then let us add: we’re perfectly fine with that.

Why on earth would we be okay with this sort of commentary? Because, like everything else that the people safely ensconced in the corner offices throughout Manhattan do, they are unintentionally helping conservatives by being so dismissive.

Sun Tzu was perhaps the greatest military strategist in history. Miltary commanders ranging from Napoleon to Norman Schwarzkopf have been influenced by his book, The Art of War. So what does he have to tell us about being dismissive of your opponent?

“He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.”

To them, conservative women are mere curiosities. To us, they are the backbone of a strong and growing groundswell of opposition to a free-spending, overreaching government. To them, conservative women are the “ungrateful” daughters of true feminism. To us, they are the epitome of it: truly equal partners who command the same respect as a man – not because they burned a bra or held a protest sign – but because they earned it the hard way.

While they obsess over Sarah Palin’s Double Dare Naughty Monkey red high heels, we marvel at the way she is able to impact public debate from a simple Facebook page. While they obsess over the sex appeal of conservative women, we are attracted to the appeal of their strength and ideas.

The liberal intelligentsia is still nibbling around the edges of what makes these women so attractive. They see the world through the lens of their looks-obsessed popular culture which celebrates the likes of Lindsay Lohan while making light of her criminal behavior and Megan Fox while ignoring the ugliness of her soul solely because they are physically attractive. So they can’t help but project their viewpoints on to conservatives and assume that women like Sarah Palin only enjoy support because they are physically attractive as well.

Meanwhile, conservative women march at the vanguard of the TEA Party movement which had its genesis in a concern over the debt-laden country being inherited by the children they have birthed, nursed and raised. They refuse to surrender the future for the political convenience of the present, and we can only stand in awe of their unwavering strength in the face of such withering assaults from those who stand across the political aisle. They are fighting the battles of today while simultaneously raising the next generation of conservative women who will stand on their shoulders and achieve even greater heights tomorrow.

As the husband of a strong and intelligent conservative woman, I can only say: Keep obsessing about the color of her shoes and the height of her heels while she steps on your plans to tax and regulate every aspect of our lives. Continue thinking that we fall in love with conservative women solely because of what is below the neckline and not because of every bit of what is above it as well.

Underestimate her and others like her at your own peril. They know full well what they’re up against. You clearly don’t.