Should the first female nominee for U.S. Vice Present from the republican party, who rose to the top of an extremely male dominated field, serve as an inspiration for gender equality?

edit: mpyne said it best somewhere else in this thread:

   "He's saying that it's the position of power that 
    is morally bankrupt, not the man that happens to 
    be filling it today.

   If tomorrow a woman was in the same position of 
   power then it would still be morally bankrupt, 
   because it is the position which leads to moral 
   bankruptcy, not the person filling the position."

Perhaps most politicians aren't good role-models because a career in politics doesn't attract the kind of people who are good role-models.