“Sarah Palin Can Have It All”
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on September 7, 2008 at 4:40 PM in Abortion, Backtrack Obama, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, DNC, DNC idiocy, Emily's list, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Misogyny, Popular Vote, Presidential Candidates, Race Card, Racism, Sarah Palin, Sexism
As a lifetime feminist, one who has marched and run for Equal Rights, who is Pro-Choice, who has escorted women through Operation Rescue protesters at Planned Parenthood, and counteracted demonstrations by Operation Rescue, I have to tell you, I cannot believe the vitriol coming out from the Left Wing regarding Sarah Palin, on a number of levels, but choice is one of the main ones today.
This morning, I was greeted with the news that NARAL and Emily’s List are beginning a $30 million campaign against her and John McCain. I used to be a member of both of those organizations until they chose the worst candidate on women’s issues instead of the best. Am I glad I did – it just saves me the trouble of doing it now.
Along those lines, had the DNC actually allowed the People to speak, I seriously doubt the Republicans would have even nominated Sarah Palin to be Vice President, but the DNC didn’t, and the RNC did.
That being said, here’s the thing. Being pro-choice means RESPECTING people’s choices, even if we do not agree with them. It means I want abortions “to be safe, legal, and rare,” as Hillary Clinton always said. It means that should a woman NOT chose an abortion, that is her CHOICE. It does not mean that all unwanted/unplanned pregnancies MUST end in abortion, which is what some folks are making it sound like now.
The fact of the matter is, Governor Palin DOESsupport birth control in an effort to lessen the number of unplanned/unwanted pregnancies. That seems like a pretty good idea to me, but apparently isn’t enough for NARAL and Emily’s List. I might add, if Roe v. Wade made it through EIGHT YEARS of George W. Bush and his allegiance to the Far Right Wing, I seriously, seriously doubt it is going anywhere now. It is a manipulative tool by the DNC to try and keep us in line. I, for one, do not like for people to try and manipulate me. It pisses me off.
Then there is the whole thing about her 17 yr old daughter being pregnant. For crying out loud, this happens. It happens in good, religious families all the time. Heck, it happened in MY family! One of my nieces got pregnant before she graduated from high school, and even though her parents are divorced, BOTH sets of remarried parents are very religious, Evangelical type people. She went to church twice a week (whether she need to or not, as the saying goes). Didn’t stop HER from having sex. I’m pretty sure her exceedingly conservative church preached about these kinds of things. Sometimes, young people make bad decisions. Sometimes, there are consequences to those decisions. I mean, really – why else are there Crittendon homes if young women didn’t get pregnant? Teenagers don’t always think straight, and do things that are the opposite of what they have been taught. And that is where Bristol Palin finds herself. Just because one is in politics doesn’t make one immune from having teenagers do things with which the parents are unhappy. Kinda like how preachers’ kids are notoriously troublesome. Kids act out.
So, these are issues being touted by the DNC and its supporters. Sarah Palin is rabidly anti-choice, will singlehandledly end Roe v Wade, even though she is in Feminists for Life and supports birth control, and doesn’t have, or WON’T have, that kind of power if she become VP. Apparently, these people don’t understand how laws are made, or unmade. (Sounds like a civic review is in order!) I guess there is only one acceptable way to view “choice,” and it is their way, or the path to hell way. And her daughter is * GASP * pregnant. What is the world coming to, I ask you?! Sheesh.
To further show how incredibly clueless the DNC and its surrogates are, the day after Sarah Palin’s speech, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, characterized her speech as “shrill and sarcastic.” Ah, yes, “shrill.” It’s meaning, of course, is a “high-pitched and piercing tone“. It’s a buzzword, though, a sexist one, that is, to describe when a woman talks. It was used to describe Hillary Clinton constantly throughout the primary season. And now it is being used by the top Democrat, against the GOP VP running mate. Oh, and “sarcastic.” Goddess knows, we women folk are NOT supposed to be sarcastic. That might hurt the men-folk’s feelings, like it did Obama. Oh, no – we are supposed to be sweetness and light, quiet and demure, and just go home and shut up about all of the sexism already. That’s what they expected Hillary to do. And that’s what they expect us to do. They can bite me (that is a pastoral phrase, by the way). Nice job, there, Harry – as if we didn’t already know you were a sexist, misogynistic pig. No amount of apologies will put those words back in your mouth. Clearly, this is what, and HOW, you think. Like we didn’t already know that from the way you treat Hillary, but still. Thanks for reminding us.
But here’s the thing that has been bugging the complete and utter shit out of me: Democrats and Progressives suggesting Sarah Palin’s family would be better served if she just stayed home with the chil’un. I have to say, that just makes my blood boil. I have worked too hard, for too long, for the DEMOCRATS, of all people, to try and turn back the clock to the June Cleaver days. What the hell is the MATTER with them?!?! There is nothing wrong if a woman, or man, CHOOSES to stay home with the kids. It is hard work, to be sure. But to say that a woman who has a career outside of the home should give it up, for alleged PROGRESSIVES to be saying this crap, is obscene. Plenty of women work outside the home AND have small children. And here’s a little newsflash – men do it, too. All the time. I don’t hear any of these people saying Todd Palin should stay home. Or OBAMA should stay home, just because they have small children. This is taking us back decades. DECADES. You know, people were worried that all the race-baiting done by the Obama camp was going to inflame the race wars, thus taking us back more. I think they have. But no one seemed too concerned about the EQUALITY wars, and we have DEFINITELY gone far, far back in that regard. I still cannot get over that it is the DEMOCRATS pushing this, though. That Rudy Guilliani, or all people, is expressing OUTRAGE that Sarah Palin is being questioned about her fitness as a MOTHER because she is the governor of Alaska, and the VP choice. He said, “No one asks a man this question!” See? See what this election has done? It has made a far-left (former) Democrat quote RUDY GUILIANI!!! Ahem. But questioned she is – by members of OBAMA’S campaign. Again, this is the one NARAL and Emily’s List, along with Planned Parenthood, have endorsed. Way to go, women, you endorsed the candidate who is setting us back DECADES. Talk about your internalized misogyny…
There is an excellent piece in the Christian Science Monitor, brought to my attention by alert NQ reader MamaTx, entitled, “Sarah Palin Can Have It All: I should know. I’m a writer and the mother of 12,” by Barbara Curtis, “Monitor Opinion Editor Josh Burek talks with Barbara Curtis about Sarah Palin and working mothers.” It is an excellent article. Barbara Curtis sums up the issues beautifully, so I will close with the full text of her fine piece:
Bluemont, Va. – The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pregnant daughter. Sarah Palin’s life – chock full of challenge – confronts her opposition with some formidable challenges of its own. After decades of pushing equal rights and treatment for women, the Left is backtracking.Suddenly motherhood – well, at least too much motherhood or too-complicated motherhood – is incompatible with executive responsibility. Fathers with little children or complex family issues – even some who cheated on their wives – have held office without having to justify their continuing careers. Yet women once again face a very different standard.
Who knew that beyond the glass ceiling feminists vowed to shatter there existed another barrier, imposed by feminists themselves? What happened to choice? To having it all? Have we had a paradigm shift since Aug. 29? What’s to stop Governor Palin from doing it all?
This debate matters a lot to me. I have 12 children, including four diagnosed with Down syndrome. Three were adopted. I’m a professional writer. And yes, some people wonder how I do it all, or if I’m doing any of it as well as I should.
The skepticism about Palin’s ability to juggle responsibilities has been punctuated with below-the-belt punches. My heart goes out to her and to every mom who soldiers on in the face of such flak. Sisterhood can be powerful, but only when we celebrate one another’s accomplishments and growth – in all our diversity.
The hardworking mother rolling up her sleeves to tackle a “man’s job” is a staple throughout American history and folklore. Think Rosie the Riveter. Think “Places in the Heart,” featuring Sally Field as a Depression-era widow succeeding against all odds. These tales of women transformed through their work – even as they transformed the culture – resonate with me. As a second-wave feminist, I recall how we turned the medical establishment on its head over childbirth.
In 1969 it was barbaric: flat on your back, bright lights and stirrups, no husband allowed. My first, Samantha Sunshine, was whisked off to the nursery, and I was forced to stay in bed without her. Just standard procedure.
When Jasmine Moondance was born at home in 1975, I was up in 20 minutes – an older and wiser counterculture mom hip to the global portrait of motherhood as part of the fabric of life, including rice-paddy moms who simply pushed out their babies, wrapped them up, and went back to work. This kind of “Sisterhood is Powerful” approach had put women in control of their birthing experience.
And our mothering experience as well. At first it was an either/or choice: stay-at-home motherhood – discredited by Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” and Ms. magazine – or “real work” alongside men. But as time went on and women seemed disinclined to give up their biological imperative, word came down that we could have it all – work and motherhood – and outclass men at the same time.
Think “I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan” from the 1970s (and now clearly retro) Enjoli perfume commercial. Perhaps that’s not what we mean today by having it all, but it’s the confident spirit that rings a bell almost 40 years later.
That confidence took us places we never dreamed. In 2001, Jane Swift of Massachusetts became the first governor to give birth in office – to twins. Her maternity leave included a governor’s council teleconference from her hospital bed. And while Ms. Swift was rebuked for using aides to babysit her daughter, Palin’s record of eschewing the trappings of power – selling the governor’s jet on eBay, for example – suggests she wouldn’t make such mistakes. So what to make of the fire and brimstone raining down on Palin?
Is it because her choices aren’t the ones feminists anticipated? Or was it ever really about choice at all? Just because Palin’s choices skew away from abortion and toward the affirmation of life – even in difficult circumstances – does that mean they shouldn’t be accorded the same dignity as those more in line with today’s feminist party line?
“How do you do it all?” people ask me. All I can say is that my capacity has grown with each child. I’ve learned to assess situations quickly, gather information and advice, negotiate, delegate, communicate clearly, and work under great pressure and with little sleep. Put simply, motherhood is its own executive office. That’s why it’s a proving ground for political leadership.
“The personal is the political” was a feminist mantra I still believe. Which leads me to a qualification for office that sets Palin apart from her peers: Consistency.
You see, motherhood under pressure has a way of helping women become greater than they started out to be. And the fact that Palin has a baby with Down syndrome only makes me trust her more. Here’s a woman who chooses sacrifice and challenge over expediency and convenience.
I’ve seen those pictures of Palin nursing her baby as she signs a bill into law and as she pushes a grocery cart. Moms understand that those photos might well have been taken just a few hours apart. That’s the kind of life we lead.
Can she do it all? Trust me, there are lots of moms out here who know she can.
• Barbara Curtis, is the author of nine books and blogs at www.MommyLife.net .
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I’ll have what that one’s having.
Make it a double.
These Hollywood elitest must be put on notice. Florida put Oprah on notice and there were thousands of subscriptions cancelled with US Weekly.
We can boycott and put Hollywood in their place by not buying their products are viewing their movies that TV series.
Picking your party is ok but do it with respect. I do not have respect for those in Hollywood who would say to me through various comments that anyone voting for Palin is not intelligent.
How insulting.
someone should tell them that Joe Biden told Tom Brokaw that he was Pro-Life this morning.
Put that in your hypercritical hat!
Agree. I noticed that, for Joe it’s a personal and private issue. He also believes that all life begins at conception. He voted against public financing for abortions. He voted for the ban on partial birth abortions. The same as McCain. However, it’s ok to use those exact same issues as a sword against Palin and McCain. To fearmonger. The fact that the MSM, NARAL, NOW is promoting it, sees nothing hypocritical in that speaks volumes to what they’re actually saying. It’s ok if you’re a Democrat, it’s not OK to hold these beliefs if you’re a Republican.
I guess McCain and Palin aren’t Catholics so they can’t fall back on that line, just their own beliefs.
I’m was a Catholic, but I don’t want the Church
involved in my Choice decision.
sowear: Whatever ‘choices’ we make, GOD has the final say-so, the final JUDGEMENT, so don’t be so hard on your church; afterall, it’s ONLY a church! GOD’S Word is WHAT matters. Think about it…
I’m Protestant – and we’re welcome to attend church NO MATTER HOW BADLY we sin. And, ‘the church’ does not judge you, it’s GOD who judges you.
I grew up catholic and went to a catholic high school- Guess what we had sex.
I’ll bet when I graduated in 1970 at least 10% of the girls in my 125 member class were pregnant.
This Choice thing is personal and the Dems and Repubs have used it as a wedge issue since I can remember-
It don’t mean shit!!
Go McCain/Sarah!!
God, I hate these people. There is nothing I hate more than a liar and a thief, and Obama and Biden are lying so they get the chance to steal tax money.
Joe Biden was forced to tell Ted Brokaw this morning he is Pro-Life.
Anyone interested in telling him he can’t be the VP because he might want to overturn Roe vs. Wade?
What about Catholic Nancy?
Some Catholics aren’t in good standing. Didn’t the Bishop or Archbishop tell Biden not to go to Communion. Also Guiliani, Cuomo, and others.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for walking-the-walk, RRRA.
Me too, Thanks – Great post RRR Amy!
Me three!
thank you for this post, RRRA, captures my feelings well. I especially like this:
I’m so disappointed in Emily’s List and Naral and Steinem. So glad that so many people, liberal dems, have NOT sold out though.
Thanks, y’all. I appreciate that!
And yes – I am really sad abt those organizations as well.
These women are now officially Pod Feminists!
I’ve done it all – 2 children, career. Since when does “choice” mean you can’t choose to keep the baby?
I called NOW and asked them that exact question. The person on the phone didn’t know how to respond.
“As a lifetime feminist, one who has marched and run for Equal Rights, who is Pro-Choice, who has escorted women through Operation Rescue protesters at Planned Parenthood, and counteracted demonstrations by Operation Rescue”
who touts the nouveau Phyllis Schlafly.
Now that is compartmentalization.
My compliments.
This statement is right out of what Gloria Steinem said about Sarah Palin but Steinem is passe.
Phyllis Schlafly said women should stay at home and raise their family. This is the message Obama’s New Democratic Party is giving to Sarah Palin. Howard Gutman, an original member of Obama’s finance committee said Friday that Sarah Palin is putting her career above her family by accepting the nomination as John McCain’s running mate.
So, Smilin’ Jim, sounds to me that Obama’s New Democratic Party is touting the nouveau Phyllis Schlafly philosophy. And, so are Obama’s supporters.
Obama’s Democratic Party: Home of Sexism, Misogyny, Racism, and the Glass Ceiling for Women
“So, Smilin’ Jim, sounds to me that Obama’s New Democratic Party is touting the nouveau Phyllis Schlafly philosophy. And, so are Obama’s supporters.”
Now that is compartmentalization.
My compliments.
Smilin Jim likes to stereotype and repeat himself. Wonder what makes smilin Jim smile.
Wonder what makes smilin Jim smile (? sic!)
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
—-Marx
Obama also said he’d FIRE anyone in his campaign who attacked Palin on family issues.
Has Obama fired Gutman yet??
ha!
Dems for McCain/Palin!
The comment about Phyllis Schafly just make me say WTF! Number 1.- Half these stupid little Obots were not even BORN when Phyllis was making headlines. (Their logic amazes me. According to Obots- No one will get the reference to Obama as Carter’s second term or McGovern but 20-somethings will know who the f’ Phyllis Schafly is!) Number 2.- Phyllis Schafly is from our grandmother’s generation. Does anyone really think the culture of her generation still exisits and shaped 44 year old Sarah Palin’s views? Does anyone think Sarah Palin belives like Phyllis the invention of an automatic washing machine and disposable diapers revolutionized women’s lives in the country?
Who the f’is stuck in the time warp? I think it’s Gloria Steinham, not Sarah Palin. What’s worst is Gloria acts and talks like women have accomplished NOTHING in 35 years with her bashing of Palin. I can only guess she belives all her work was for naught.
Agree.
However, with the way Obama’s troops treated Hillary, and now treats Palin, they want women back in the home, barefoot, pregnant and taking care of the kids.
3 cheers for men who are secure enough in their own manhood to stay at home and be Mr. Mom while their wives maximize their talents. No one mentions just how much extended family support that Palin has also in addition to her kids and her husband. Nothing has been said about this yet, but I am willing to bet that she and her daughter Bristol had a talk about what was coming. I am also willing to bet that Bristol said “Go for it Mom”. They appear to be a very close family.
Obama is attacking her motherhood because he is scared out of his empty suit! He cannot compete with the McCain/Palin ticket. I am pro-choice also. I believe that this issue is a religious one between a woman and her god and not a secular one. There are things going on now that trump this issue anyway…..like national security, the economy…etc.
Try this on for size…….decide for yourself if she is qualified if McCain expires on the job.
SARAH PALIN’S EXPERIENCE:
Don’t dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska National Guard– consider this.
Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptor defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike other Guard units.
As governor of Alaska , Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden’s and certainly by far exceeds Obama’s.
She’s also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security’s counter terrorism plans.
Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country’s defense. Given Alaska ’s proximity to Russia , she may have security clearances we don’t even know about.
According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets.
She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.
My apologies to Schlafly.
This is probably a slur on Phyllis Schlafly. Both are college graduates, Schlafly has a Pi Beta Kappa Key, a MA in Government and a JD. Palin has a BA in Communications. Schlafly authored 21 books and Palin has none. Schlafly raised six kids and Palin is raising five. She is congruent with Palin on the abstinence-only method for birth control. similarly the gravitate to nutcase organizations: Schlafly is a Bircher and Plain flirted with the Alaska separationists.
Despite some similarities Palin definitely is not Schlafly’s intellectual equal. I would put Palin closer to the Helen Chenoweth end of the reactionary spectrum.
Jimbo, Palin does not promote abstinence-only BC, so while she may not have written a book, she has read a few. Therefore, she has you beat.
“while she may not have written a book, she has read a few. Therefore, she has you beat”
I do not wish to be your intellectual equal either.
Smilin Jim: you represent Obama’s sexist Democratic Party very well. If you believe Schlafly is to be admired, then you need to join a male misogyny group.
Oh wait, that’s the Obama’s Democratic Party!
Obama’s Democratic Party: Home of Sexism, Misogyny, Racism, and the Glass Ceiling for Women
“If you believe Schlafly is to be admired, then you need to join a male misogyny group.”
Schlafly is a formidable opponent, Grasshopper, one never to be underestimated — but an opponent nonetheless.
So is Palin.
Understand that the distinction is not in kind but only in degree.
Good thing for you that I have you beat in looks and in brains then, Jim.
“Good thing for you that I have you beat in looks and in brains then, Jim.”
It is the tragedy of our times that such eloquence has gone unheralded.
Smiling Jim you have stated more than a few lies in your post -someone needs to take the smile off your face.
That isn’t a smile-he’s a slack jaw.
“someone needs to take the smile off your face.”
It’s been tried.
But never by your sort.
Gosh. Nothing like an ad in the middle of the homepage to make this look totally stupid. Palin’s book climbed to #12 on Amazon. Booyah!
that book isn’t by her, it’s about her
Smilin’ Jim –
When Obama was “President” of the Harvard Law Review – he wrote NOTHING. Let me repeat that…NOTHING. I believe he went down on record as the ONLY President of the HLR to ever write absolutely NOTHING. Why – because it would have been peer reviewed. Hmmmm – What was he hiding? He also won’t release his transcripts from his schools…what’s he hiding? Also, when he was in the State Senate, the OTHER Democratic Illinois Senators had to turn over their authored legislation to Obama (upon order of Emil Jones, Jr. State Senate Majority Leader) in order to beef up Obama’s NON-EXISTENT record.
Any of us can make up stories about ourselves and call them autobigraphies, but other than his own autobiographies (which are a joke unto themselves) Obama has written nothing noteable in his entire career.
BTW, judging from the support and effectivness of Palin’s delivery – it looks like her major in communications paid off and paid off quite well.
It is such a pleasure to find a lover of literature in this wasteland.
Regret ably, though, neither the faux feminist who penned the original article nor I mentioned any works by The Prince of Platitudes.
The first mention of books was made by me in reference to the 21 that Phyllis Schlafly authored.
There is either an abrupt rupture in attention span here or the desperate need to find an argument you are prepped to win. Good luck with both.
“it looks like her major in communications paid off and paid off quite well.”
As McCain’s tethered goat?
You shouldn’t offer your compliments to a woman unless you mean them, Jim. Hitting on women is bad form, in that case, and especially if you do it with the back of your hand.
This is could be cited as another example of compartmentalization if it were not so bizarre.
The alleged feminists on this thread and commentors to it sing the praises of Palin as a strong woman holding her sway in a man’s world on her own terms.
Segue to the image the helpless, pitiful wretch suffering unspeakable indignity and wailing for Rhett to gallop in to save the day.
Tammy Wynette and Alice Paul are trapped in the same being.
The Clintons are well rid of this lot.
How cheaply some supposed Democrats hold their values.
What more can be said. the moral bankruptcy of the Democrat Party on display for all to see.
when bristols baby is grown enough to find out alot of these democrats wanted them to be murdered and never born and that it was “all Sarah’s fault she had to let the baby live”…then they will say “thank you grandma…why did they want mommy to kill me?”
“well sweetheart because you being alive makes them feel bad for ever being part of another baby being killed”
I have read this comment three times, and it not only makes no sense but makes me want to pour bleach on my brain to make the memory it go away.
OMG has been into the Arkansas wagon varnish again.
off topic.
Somebody asked me yesterday what I have against obama… well, how do I count the ways? For starters:
The ABC’s of BO
57 + 1 = number of states he visited in the US
99 problems but a bitch ain’t one
Ayers, William and Thomas
Auchi, Nadhami
Acorn
Alsammarae, Aiham
Annie Oakley
Apostate Muslim
Author of two fictional biographies
Axelrod, David
Brzezinski,Zbigniew
Bundlers millions of $$$
Black Liberation Marxist Theology
Blogovitch, Rod
Banking Committee he said he led
Brandenburg Gate
Biden – all that hoopla for change agent Joe
Bitter people clinging to guns and religion
Bros before Hoes
Blame Hillary – chief primary strategy
Civilian National Security Force
Camp Obama – Free indoctrination
Caucus fraud
Cell phone ringing
Chicago Annenberg Challenge
Code Pink
COLB photoshopped
Cone, James
Daley, Richard
DKos aka great orange satan
Davis, Frank Marshall
Davis, Allison
Dem for a Day
DEBATES *put foot in mouth here*
Dohrn, Bernadine
Doyle, Patty Solis
Edwards, John the diversion and in cahoots
Exelon radioactive drinking water and $$$
Fake Presidential Seal
FISA
Flag Pin and throwing out flags
First time in my life I’m proud of my country
Farrakhan, Louis lifetime achievement award
Florida and Michigan block revotes
Free music, beer and food to draw crowds
GAFFES (personal favorite – Soviet Union)
Gary, Indiana vote early, vote often, count really late
Get in line and Get over it
Goolsbee, Austin Nafta for Canucks
Harry and Louise ad part deux
Hamas Manifesto and endorsement
Hopey changey ad nauseam
Huffy Puffy
Inflate your tires energy plan
Jackson, Jesse Jr Tears for Katrina
Jackson, Jesse Sr. Cut his nuts off
Johnson, Hazel the real community activist
Jones, Emil
Khalidi, Rashid
Kilpatrick, Kwame
Killer-Spin
Lee, Spike Chocolate city
Ludacris
Maytag
Kahlid Al-Mansour
Marzook
McPeak, General
Meeechelle
Meeks, James
Moss, Otis
MSNBO aka General Electric
Moveon
Nation of Islam volunteers
National Anthem
New Black Panther party
Operation board games
Obongo Obama
Odinga, Ralia (Dick Morris and cousin ob)
O-Farce One
Pfleger, Father
Powers, Samantha Monster
Pritzker, Penny
Pets and dead people voting
Periodic moods feeling down
Public Financing
Puff Daddy obama or die
Punjab Hillary
Palmer, Alice
Quadaffi
RBC May 31, 2008
Racist Bill, Hillary, Gerry and all non-koolade drinkers
Rhodes, Randi
Recreate 68
Rezko the lord of the slums
Rulz are da Rulz ‘cept when they are the rules
Spring break in Pakistan 1981 during Jihad
Soros, George
Sweetie
Tea parties – all Hillary ever did
Teamsters oversight
Temple of Doom at Invesco
TUCC
Typical White Person
Ummmmmmmm
Union workers in Vegas had their own caucus sites
Victory declared shouldn’t have included SD’s
WAFFLE, Can I just eat my
Wright, Jeremiah GD America
Woods Fund
W.O.R.M.
X, Malcolm
Your likeable enough
Young, Donald RIP
Zero – what the big O stands for
Zee assorted dem mob – Kennedy, Kerry, Oprah, Caroline, Nancy, Dean and Donna Brazilenut
I love this. I’m going to use this one and pass it around.
Wow! Excellent!!
That is so funny because I was just going to sit down and write 101 reasons why I won’t vote for Obama, knowing that I will be able to come up woth 1010 things. That way rather than argue with people about why I am against Obama, I can just hand them a paper! Great job with the ABCs! Hopefully when I write my 101s, I can post them!
oops! with and 101, not woth and 1010, although maybe I could come up with 1010!
I’d like to see this be a group project.
An open thread where we can all add on comments to make a list.
It would be fun in a infuriating type of way.
Sum it all up, a year of research and events that constantly served to make our gag reflexes stronger.
If we add the media we can come up with hundreds more of the LEG TINGLE variety.
Very good idea – group list of reasons.
Great list! May I suggest you add Bus to the B list, and the complete phrase could be Where All the Good People Are.
This is excellent!! May I post it elsewhere?
FANTASTIC.
I posted it (with your screen name) over at clintondems.com. I’ll come back and post their additions!
Great list! Add NAFTA lies to that list.
Brilliant!!
What a great list. I saw it for the first time at http://www.independentview.com. You’re obviously a kindred spirit to Bob and me over at http://www.obamawaffles.com. We’re cataloging his position changes and other foibles. We hope you’ll check us out. And while you’re there, we hope you’ll grab your own copy of Obama Waffles—an edible collectible. We’ve created 11 oz of instant waffle mix inside a colorful box covered with biting political satire and laugh-out-loud lampoons. Check it out and get your copy today. We’ll be sure to link to your blog from ours. Will you do the same?
To say that women should stay home and take care of the kids flies in the face of so many women who have to work to feed their families. Are we to believe now that these poor, working-class, or middle-class women are bad mothers and wives?
How can the Pod Feminists defend their new-found patriarchal morality without looking like utter hypocrites and fools?
Excellent, exactamundo!
karen for Cinton:
This list is brilliant!!
Funny tonight I was asked “as a former Clinton supporter not supporting Obama” what did I have against Obama.
I mentioned a few things and was amazed how these “high info voters” looked at me as if I had just descended from Mars and had no idea what I was talking about.
The list could serve as a document to distribute when the question arises.
I second the idea of a thread for this project!!
Karen –
Great work! Should be a post. I have copy and pasted into my POLITICAL SAVE file! Love it.
I’m rapidly reaching the “boiling over” point, which for me–who, for MANY elections, have worked Democratic phone banks and transported Democrats to vote–means actually helping McCain get elected.
I have gone from being unsure whether I was voting for Clinton or Obama, to favoring Clinton, to knowing I would NEVER vote for Obama, but staying home, to thinking I might hold my nose and vote for McCain, to now wanting to make very, very sure that McCain beats not only Obama but the whole Democratic Party and the travesty it’s become.
Rise Hillary Rise, from the ashes, to victory in 2012!
That is very similar to my election 2008 story, too!
I’ve had the same political transformation.
And I have also just volunteered for the McCain/Palin campaign and watch Fox news. I feel like I’m in an alternate universe!!
At least none of us are alone.
Hell, it’s starting to look like we’re in the majority.
you and Andrea Yates are my idols!!!!
That is sick and uncalled for.
Rev. Amy,
I am so glad you liked the article. I love reading your articles. Have been known to write some “rants” myself when my dander gets up and it is good to know that I am not the only one to get passionate.
Oh, no, thank YOU, MamaTX – it is an excellent article. And I’d love to see you rants!
Do you have a blog site?
“This election is not about the issues.” (Rick Davis, John McCain’s campaign manager)
Well, damn. I guess that explains a lot.
“Davis added that issues will no doubt play a major role in the decisions undecided voters will make but that they won’t ultimately be conclusive. He added that the campaign has “ultimate faith” in the idea that the more voters get to know McCain and Barack Obama, the better the Republican nominee will do.”
Go back to your base for reprogramming and context lessons.
Davis doesn’t seem to credit the voters with having much intelligence. I’m betting he’s made a miscalculation. Those issues are directly affecting the voters this year. Rising prices, falling real income, foreclosures, healthcare costs, and escallating unemployment aren’t irrelevant abstractions. The republicans aren’t talking about any of that, and can be directly blamed for most of it. They’re going to be forced to talk, and forced to defend themselves.
And we are supposed to trust a guy who sat in a racist church for 20 years with that laundry list of yours?
It has long been apparent that this election is not about issues, or it wouldn’t even be close. McCain would win by a landslide. Alan Keyes got 30% of the vote against Obama in the Senate race.
Actually, Clinton would have kicked McCain’s a$$ if tis election had been about issues.
BHO wouldn’t even figure into it.
What really gets my goat is that by the time she’s sworn in as VP, Palin would have three kids at home. Her oldest son is in the Army and her oldest daughter is getting married. Unless Palin joins the Army or moves in with her daughter, I don’t see her having 5 kids in the VP’s mansion. Do the math, MSM.
Do the math – that is one more kid than Obama will have in the Whitehouse. And Palin is only running for VP. Why the double standard? Why is Obama not being criticized for being an absentee dad, much like he has been an absentee senator, also going unnoticed.
Also, are we just suppsed to assume that Obama’s kids would never get pregnant as teens? If he were in the whitehouse that is just a given that would not happen? His oldest is 10 so if he out in 8 years can she make it to 18 and not get pregnant? Why because her parents are so much better than the Palins? Is it because the secret service would babysit her? He has no business assuming his child would never do any such thing. In reality, many teenage girls whose daddy isn’t available to them go seeking love through teen sex. It’s my understanding that Obama has been home with his girls only on weekends! He had better assume nothing!
The girls won’t “be saddled” with a baby, don’t cha know!
“punished” with a baby…he’s a sick man.
I read somewhere that Michelle said she and Barack would not be having any more children, since the responsibilities of the presidency would be so great. I guess this means she’s a better mother than Palin.
i don’t see michelle in the wh either. so there, lady.
shotgun liason
See Sarah Palin in action on Charlie Rose, long before she was just recently “discovered” by the media. She holds her own – she is the real thing:
http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2008/9/6/1/charlie-rose-green-room-with-sarah-palin
Good comments from Palin. She diagnosed what is wrong with Barky–he tries to please everyone and winds up getting nothing done. That explains the vacuous record.
Blank slate by design-each person is to see what he wants to see.
Thank you so very much for such a very well thought out and thoughtful essay. I will confess that I am a conservative lurker on this blog, who in 1972 was the Republican nominee for congress in the 11th. Congressional District in California. [San Mateo County]. I am a pro-choice Republican, with reasonable limitations. I do put a limit on abortion being used as a contraceptive when so many means are available to the very lazy. I am appalled with the procedure called partial birth abortion and consider it to be out right murder. The liberal left opposes the death penalty and yet supports this procedure. I oppose the death penalty except in very unusual circumstances such as one life prisoner killing another or a prison guard.
I applauded the effort which Hillary put forth even though her campaign was awful. She received a very raw deal from the MSM to the point that it was embarassing, and of course from THE ONE’s campaign.
Am I a feminist, guess that is in question. In discussions with my liberal friends they would accuse me of be sexist. However, I always reminded them, that as the senior partner in a small lawfirm in Burlingame, California I made women lawyers partners, and when I retired in 2001, I was the only male in my law firm. My partners were and are great lawyers.
Again, thank you so much for the wonderful essay, and thank this blog for supporting women again some of the most sexist and stupid attacks that I have ever witnessed since Palin was announced as McCain’s VP selection. [Incidentally, if any of the MSM media had cared to look at conservative blogs as I did, her name first surfaced in February of this year and was discussed ad infinitum thereafter.]
“At first it was an either/or choice: stay-at-home motherhood – discredited by Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” and Ms. magazine – or “real work” alongside men. But as time went on and women seemed disinclined to give up their biological imperative, word came down that we could have it all – work and motherhood – and outclass men at the same time.”
I remember all of this and can relate to RRRA’s article.
Now, I can’t relate to what’s happening this year. The only thing I’m glad of is I’ve already wrote NOW and NARAL that I’ll no longer be supporting them and will be voting for John McCain. Never thought that would happen. This whole election has seemed like a really bad dream which I can’t wake up from.
Election Day can’t get here quick enough, at this point!
If women can do real work along side men, then daddies can provide real parenting just like real mommies. The First Dude will do just fine riding herd at the spacious VP mansion on Massechusetts Avenue with that darling group of Palin kiddies.
The world needs Piper Palin far more than it needs Meechelle and kids who only recognize their daddy on TV.
Piper Palin – 2028.
And Sarah looks like she’s blessed with a good husband. Did you see him holding the baby at the convention? Women’s right isn’t all about women, it’s about men and women working TOGETHER as equals. And Sarah looks like she has that and I’m happy for her!
I just wish the New Democratic Party hadn’t gotten so lost!!!
I figure a couple of months should be long enough for Obama and Biden to get people focused on issues, and on the fact that McCain/Palin are nothing more than a continuation the policies of George W. Bush.
If they can force the republicans to talk about their policies, they’re done for. I don’t see how the republicans can avoid doing so. Policy and issues will come up during the debates. What are McCain and Palin going to say?
Obama has had 19 months to talk about his policies. All I’ve seen is flip-flop, “borrowing” other’s ideas, more flip-flop… Sorry, no one is buying Obama/Biden. They’ll be the ones in trouble if it comes to real talk about policies and issues. They are already sinking fast. Obama couldn’t even break 50% in the polls during the DNC sham of a convention!
MCCAIN/PALIN 08
HILLARY 2012
OBAMA – NEVER EVER EVER!
I agree with everything you said except I think we can show some flexibility:
OBAMA – WHEN HELL FREEZE OVER
Believe it or not, Indiana Dem, America is still, on the whole, a center/right country. A majority of the public doesn’t have a problem with Republican policies, just the arrogance and incompetence with which Bush and his team have tried to carry them out.
Well said.
They are going to say Drill for the short term and aggressively seek alternative energy sources. It will put a whole slew of people to work and in the interim we can still operate the postal service, the military, the police and fire deparments, ambulances, helicopters, etc. What have Pelosi and party offered? Saving the planet? We can’t save the planet if no one is working or can’t afford to get there. Without fuel we cannot support basic vital services. So yes, they have presented an economic and national security plan all wrapped into one. And another thing, I didn’t buy a McMansion that I couldn’t afford with a ARM, so I really think the market needs to play itself out, just like McCain says. Quit sounding so stupid and listen.
Who is more shrill than Harry Reid?
I’m struggling to come up with an answer.
LOL
fluffy bunny, I know the answer! MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECHELLE
All NARAL and Emily’s List and the Democrats are showing is that they have not come into the 21st Century. Like Gloria Steinem ( age 74) and Nancy Pelosi )age 68) they are former hippies having their last hurrah. They want to keep everyone in the mindset of the 30, 40, and 50’s. Sarah Palin (age 44) gets it. Barbara Curtis’s article is well done and true.
Always enjoy your articles, Rev. Amy.
We’re all seeing that Roe v Wade is the carrot and stick that have kept women in line all these years. Even IF Roe were overturned, the people could demand legislation within their states. More than half of the population believes in choice (which means choice to HAVE a baby too).
I’m tired of being played like a mule with the carrot and stick.
After menopause, Roe v. Wade lost its urgency as a personal mission and my views on abortion, the right to it and its over all impacts on the degredation of women and the irresponsibility of men has vastly changed.
Choice is not an issue that would get me to not support Palin. And this is for your information, pollsters.
Now I see choice being made after birth: choice for adoption; choice for well-run orphanages; choice for responsible parenting and choice for fathers to carry their full share of mutual parenting responsibilities.
But choice to kill a conception of life had better be made before it occurs — or after it is delivered. That is my new defintion of choice and I suspect a lot of post menopause women (who vote) are also no longer swayed by selfish Roe v. Wade support. We see what decades of discarding life has done to everyone in the US.
Well said.
Here, HERE! Brilliantly said. I concur wholeheartedly.
McCain/Palin 08
My daughter (38, BSEE, MSEE) calls the continuing invocation of Roe v. Wade as the Golem of Women as, “Slapping women in the face with the coathanger.”
The kid gets smarter all the time.
BO finally said something I agree with. That the he has been on the camapign trail for 19 months and Palin has campaigning for only 4 days.
The part that BO is missing is that in the 4 days Sarah has been campaigning, we now know more about her than we do about BO after 19 months.
Sarah has an issue come up about her she addresses it. If BO has an issue come up about his self he ignores it and hopes it goes away on it’s own.
That is one of the many reasons why I will not vote for BO. For a man who wants our trust he sure is hiding and carrying alot of secrets. I do not trust him at all!
Obama’s candidacy is based on a leap of faith. He is vague, ambiguous, and contradictory all at the same time. I really don’t know what he stands for in terms of policy and issues.
Standing and cheering for both you and Barbara! If feminist are only going to stand up for one bloc of women, we will take the reins and stand up to fight for all women.
Sorry that should read today’s so called Feminist.
If first impressions really do count, Obama better hope that the elections are held next week before he runs out of rope. (I would say …to hang himself but I realize such a reference to hanging would be racist.)
Apparently NOW, NARAL and Emily’s List have adopted the Democrats meme that we’ll all just fall in line ‘cuz where else can we go?
There certainly was a day when I looked up to Gloria Steinem and considered reproductive choice an imperative. However, now I realize that the left wants me to accept their definition of choice as much as the right does. Not happnin’!
I can be pro-choice and anti-abortion. I can support a woman who believes in a family life. And I can say goodbye to the New Feminists along with the New Democrats.
Sarah Palin, quite simply, represents what American women have evolved into (regardless of her politics), and these idiots once again just don’t get it! Well, don’t forget to turn off the lights when you leave the empty room. We’ll be at the victory party.
yes, i find it fascinating that the so called party of womens rights is mad, off the leash even because a republican women is doing awesome in her career and maintains a beautiful family. They were gorgous at the convention.
I am 23 with 2 kids and a man that was raised by a single mother who worked her ass off on the night shift my whole life. I understand. I get her.
Just like alot of poeple will. That is what is really bugging them. They have no part and no say in this womens career.
She deserves respect and her record is really good.
She did great as a mayor bringing business in and keeping taxes low. She is a staunch opponent to corruption in her own party and she has cut a half billion dollars in speniding as Governor and has vetoed more earmarks as Governor than any governor in alaska’s history. They currently have a 5 billion dollar surplus. And she secured the greatest infastructure project in the history of our country for a natural gas pipeline to the lower 48. Action on energy, thats what we need, balanced budgets and surplus’s. You remember those days.
They have nothing on her, except splitting ridiculous hairs. That is why it is all so personal and nasty.
McCain/Palin will be victorious come November.
Also, his pick of her shows how brilliant a general he is. He kept this pick close, so close the press did not ever mention her as a choice and he humiliated them! Great strategy, he checked them on so many fronts with Palin. He really is McBrilliant
It appears to me the feminists are mad because Sarah Palin has made it and done so by being happy and well adjusted with a beautiful family and a great husband.
Hillary has been asking us if we were just in it for her. Yesterday I sent her an email asking her if she was in it for all women or just bleeding heart liberal democrat women?
Present company excluded, I think feminists have become a JOKE! How any women could stand behind a man and party that verbally abused them continuously throughout an election season and then go against a women who pushed thru all those barriers that the feminists were fighting for makes absolutely no sense to me.
Excuse me if I do not feel sorry for the next pathetic women that cries harrassment or discrimination.
That’s the problem; we’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
*sigh* I hated this crap the first time.
yes, i find it fascinating that the so called party of womens rights is mad, off the leash even because a republican women is doing awesome in her career and maintains a beautiful family. They were gorgous at the convention.
I am 23 with 2 kids and a man that was raised by a single mother who worked her ass off on the night shift my whole life. I understand. I get her.
Just like alot of poeple will. That is what is really bugging them. They have no part and no say in this womens career.
She deserves respect and her record is really good.
She did great as a mayor bringing business in and keeping taxes low. She is a staunch opponent to corruption in her own party and she has cut a half billion dollars in speniding as Governor and has vetoed more earmarks as Governor than any governor in alaska’s history. They currently have a 5 billion dollar surplus. And she secured the greatest infastructure project in the history of our country for a natural gas pipeline to the lower 48. Action on energy, thats what we need, balanced budgets and surplus’s. You remember those days.
They have nothing on her, except splitting ridiculous hairs. That is why it is all so personal and nasty.
McCain/Palin will be victorious come November.
Also, his pick of her shows how brilliant a general he is. He kept this pick close, so close the press did not ever mention her as a choice and he humiliated them! Great strategy, he checked them on so many fronts with Palin. He really is McBrilliant
She dated the guy for a year, chances are pretty good this wasn’t the first time they had sex. As far as mistakes, I’ve had an unplanned pregnancy at 32 and it wasn’t because no one demonstrated with a banana for me.
I really don’t understand what is going on with these organizations. Wasn’t the feminist movement about the opportunity to have freedom of choice? They should be cheering her as an example of the success of the “movement” and strongly disagreeing with her as a politician if that is how they feel. But to trash her as a woman…I don’t understand the psycho-pathology behind that behavior.
Would it change much if she were 18 and had gotten pregnant to the wackos? I’d like to ask them. I’m just saying. When is the right age to have sex? I’d like to ask the groups and the dem party!
Back again to say I’m sorta watching Dallas and Cleveland while reading through the blogs. One of those clever Apple Computer commercials came on, you know one of those snarky MAC vs Vista ones.
It hit me, Democrats, the Vista operating system of politics. Don’t ask.
I’ll be sticking with XP till something better comes along…
Please interpret that figuratively as well as literally.
“Fall in line” Isn’t that what abusive husbands say to their wives as they are beating them?
Like someone else said on the TV, why wasnt Obama tucking his girls into bed instead of saying good night to them via a tv screen.
It goes both ways.
The best thing that Obama could do would be to use all his friends to shut up the sexist slander that they are creating.
If he thinks that by just disagreeing with it, people will think he has nothing to do with it he is wrong.
His old old friends have been lost him lots of votes. Now his supporters are losing him more votes and respect.
I truly suspect that Obama knows about and has been condoning behind closed doors the investigations and attacks on Palin.
Great post, RRRA. I don’t know what this 1950s crap is all about, but Palin is perfectly capable of the job and she can step into the presidency if the need arises.
I’m happy to vote for McCain/Palin, but I can’t shake this feeling that this year has been staged somehow, played like a chess game. I don’t know who the players are yet — lefties, righties, media, foreign interests, Chicago thugs, corporations — but it will come out when the dust settles. Strikes me as very odd that a Republican will win in a year that was soooo tailor-made for Dems. The DP and the DNC blew it big time.
BO, the incompetent, will regret not picking Hillary for veep for a sure win.
Well Bill said he had a lot to tell and will do it in January.
Is that why we dont see him that much?
I truly wish that Hillary would just do her job in the Senate and stay as far away from Obama as she can. I have a feeling she could come up with 18 million reasons why she couldnt do certain speeches.
Maybe she is trying to keep a place in the Democratic Party but she is losing her place among others.
Whomever wins (I pray not Obama), Hillary will have a hard comeback road the longer he stays around Obama.
I think Hillary is out campaigning for herself! She’s out visible and the dems think it;s for Obama, but it is in case she has to step in if he is ineligible per the Berg lawsuit or one of his scandals just sinks him in the polls! That is why she is out stumping IMO.
I think that the die is cast so to speak and Joe Biden, not Hillary, would be the candidate.
csu–You are absolutely right! Hillary has to keep a presence in the campaign for both this election and the next election in 2012.
Two words: Karl Rove.
After seeing the primaries gamed, I think the first part was staged. I also think that what someone meant for evil was turned around for good. I’m praying. JMO
My take is that Saudi Arabia, petro-producing, George Soros, Bill Daley combines are behind this. They have more money than the Republicans and that’s why the MSM is still behind O’bama. Its why Obama wasn’t ‘vetted’ like Palin. We know more about Sarah in 10 dayds than we do about Obama in 19 months. Biden was chosen by Bill Daley.
New York may be Gothem City, but a whole new description for anti-American, anti-Democacy should be ascribed to the Windy City. Its the WTF City.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsed this week. Forty percent of U.S. mortgage debt, five trillion dollars, hundreds of billions of defaults in the pipeline. We’ll be lucky to make it out intact. I sometimes wonder if Obama hasn’t been auditioning for the part of Jimmy Carter, taking the fall for the coming “malaise.” What can McCain do? What can anyone do?
Obama’s chief benefactor and advisor is Brzezinski who was also Carter’s. Remember the economy and high interest rates of the 1970s under Carter? Obama will out do that disaster with austerity measures which will break the back of Main Street and enrich Wall Street. (see Tarpley’s OBAMA: THE POSTMODERN COUP)
Probably another bailout, at the taxpayers’ expense. Which, I presume, will further erode the value of the dollar. Maybe we’ll eventually pay off our entire national debt with worthless monopoly money and start from scratch.
I keep wondering if it might not be time to convert a significant part of my savings into something tangible. It’s very disturbing whenever I find myself thinking that way. But the dollar has dropped in value by 41% in only 8 years. And, speaking with total honesty, neither Obama nor McCain may be able to forestall trouble like most of us haven’t seen in our lifetimes.
Think about it. Think about all the money and energy that has been spent fighting the abortion issue since Roe v. Wade became law. Now imagine those resources being funneled into program designed to prevent unwanted preganancy. Imagine the influence on abortion rates if highly effective, long term, but easily reversible and readily accessible birth control was available to young women. Hmmmm….almost all pregancies would be wanted. Abortion becomes rare. Hmmmm….. abortion is no longer a polarizing political issue. Hmmm…. what would the DNC and GOP fight about? Neither want to solve it, they both want to exploit it. Think about it.
Good point. Just like everything, follow the money. Same applies to the Neo-Feminists, too.
they refuse to make people ACCOUNTABLE-plain and simple. When they do this they are enabling them to be in poverty and unable to pursue more education and training.
These so called Democrats apparently really aren’t Democrats because they stronglhy resemble hypocrites right now. The Democratic Party has always stood for equality for all until Barack Obama decided to run for President. Now it’s equality for all who agree w him. Women, children and everyone in between-under the bus. These people are placing their loyalty w the party even when it doesn’t represent what they say their principles are!!
Oh, they still support equality for women, all right …. just as long as it’s LIBERAL women that we’re talking about.
On Greta’s special last night about Sarah, she said that her husband is now a stay at home dad. The only money he brought in last year was from his snow racing. So what’s the big deal. He’s there to take care of the kids while mom works. Happens all across the country.
I agree….he….oh my gosh…..wants to take responsibility for the kids also! Oh my gosh….he loves his wife and supports her ambition! How awful…cripes if more men would get off the arrogant, me first bullshit, marriages would last longer. People are so rigid and can’t imagine anything that is remotely….oh my gosh…..non traditional!! It’s called compromise.
Thank you, Rev. Amy for this fantastic article.
NARAL and Emily’s List do not speak for me. Sarah Palin and Camille Paglia can speak for me.
Sarah can relate to me on levels that none of the other 3 guys can understand.
Camille is a feminist whom I admire and love. We disagree on certain issues, but we both tend to be libertarian on other issues.
Unlike NARAL, Emily’s List, NOW, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists, Camille hasn’t tried to ignore conservative women. She has been engaging, while not agreeing on certain issues, and humorous in her outreach to all women that find themselves with no voice in the feminists movement.
Yes, Camille is supporting Barack Obama. I can respect her decision because she respects my decision to vote for John McCain.
She’s also the only woman in Rush Limbaugh’s life that tells him to “shut up” and “stop making fun of Hillary or else”. Telling him to “shut up” is a major event, but everyone knows that Camille can and will do it.
Have you read Rothbard’s “The Libertarian Manifesto?”
I’m close to libertarian only in the sense that it contains most of the letters in libertine.
Steven,
Your post made me stop to think how I would categorize myself politically in this new world that’s been thrust upon us. The only thing I could come up with was:
PUMA
GG,
I think PUMA is a manifestation of a movement away from the left/right mode of political categories. For example, people can be pro-choice and pro-capital punishment or pro-life and anti-capital punishment.
I think it is becoming increasingly difficult for the big tents of both parties to contain their diverse memberships. The battle between liberals and progressives in the Democratic Party is mirrored by the battle between libertarians and social conservatives in the Republican party. McCain’s earlier difficulties in attracting the party faithful says as much.
PUMA was a rallying point for Hillary Clinton forged in the heat of Hillary’s primary run. I see PUMA’s mandate to be that of becoming a beacon for upholding common decency within the political process. In other words, I think PUMA is in the nascent stages of becoming a force for the cause of truth, justice, and the American Way.
This might sound hokey, but if one thinks of the meaning of the words, and one thinks of the way the Democratic primary unfolded, is it not the case that PUMA was born because of the lies, injustice, and anti-American ideals that were employed to award Obama the nomination?
What do you think?
SM
Steve -
I’m in! I want to be in a party that fights for truth, justice, and equality for ALL! PUMA it is!
PUMA
Murray Rothbard and Ayn Rand – two authors that are must reads! Although, Rothbard is far more compelling in my opinion.
Ayn didn’t like Reagan, but I did.
If John McCain had chosen Mitt Romney, I would probably have gone Libertarian or stayed at home. Then again—I can’t stand Bob Barr.
Camille Paglia trashed Hillary several times in her Salon essays. I detest and loathe that pseudo intellectual. And Ayn Rand! What a failed scrap of humanity she was.
Nicole – Don’t let Alan Greenspan see what you wrote about Ayn Rand. After all, she took him as her lover when he was a virile young stud! Try not to think about that.
RC,
It’s been a long time since I read either of them. I still have a copy of the Playboy that contains her famous interview (which was done bny Alvin Toffler).
While I was reading the libertarians and the objectists, I was also reading anarchist works by Bakunin, Bukharin, and Bookchin, for example. There is something very seductive about the libertarian and anarchist ideal that if we use common decency to guide our conduct, we don’t need to create political institutions to enforce our conduct.
I’m glad to see you energized by your VP pick. Her speech rocked.
SM
PS As a person steeped in hockey culture, who has played hockey almost all of my life, I know exactly what is meant by a hockey mom. How can one not appreciate the fierce, protective love of a mother (especially when it results in a purse to the head of a grossly incompetent referee)!
Sorry, Repub Chick, but Camille Paglia has been one of the worst Pod Feminists since the 1980s. By Pod Feminist I mean a women who claims to be a feminist but who acts in the interests of patriarchy.
In one of her books (whose name escapes me now) she claims that if women had been in charge throughout the ages that there would be no civilization to speak of and that we’d still be in grass skirts. Furthermore, she has blamed rape victims for the crime perpetrated against them, suggesting that perhaps these women had been asking for it by wearing sexy clothes or for being out alone, etc.
Also, as I recall, Paglia was always one of Hillary’s (& Bill’s) worst critics.
It makes total sense that she supports Obama.
One of my former feminist mentors called Palin “trailer trash”, a “whore” and sendt me a pix of Palin in a bikini holding a rifle. Who would she shoot, my friend wondered: democrats? blacks?
Another “femninist” friend ranted about how Palin “paraded” her pregnant daughter in front of millions. And no doubt the daughter was being forced to marry her boyfriend.
The more unthinking Americans attack Palin, the more I want her to succeed. Go, Palin, GO!!
Sad, cuz of the emptyness and obvious cognitive limitations of women I care about & the DNC memories of corruption. this was the bestm memory I took home from Denver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3fsNb0Hn4
Obama and the democrats who support him, may be right on the issues, but do they have the CHARACTER and EXPERIENCE and RECORD OF DELIVERING? My answer is , NO! Which is why I am voting for McCain and Palin. It is that simple to me.
It’s as simple as the treatment of the flag, if you agree to use it, then you understand how to use it correctly, if it is only words or just a passing symbol for you, then you will toss it in the trash at the end of a convention.
If you look at the lay of the land, if Roe v. Wade was overturned tomorrow I don’t know that much would be different in reality. In some states abortion would be easily available with few restrictions in some states they would be impossible to get except in cases of rape or the mothers life being threatened and other states would fall somewhere on the continuum. In other words, just like it is NOW even though Roe is still on the books.
There are so many ifs here: if a liberal / moderate SCOTUS justice retires or dies (Stevens is 88, but he also plays tennis daily) and if McCain appoints a Scalia-type (Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor as well as Scalia) and if the Democratic Senate approves (they REJECTED Bork) and if SCOTUS wants to revisit settled law then yes, Roe could be overturned.
Where would that leave us then? Well it sends it back to the states, some of which have been chipping away at Roe for decades. The only way to ban legal abortion outright is a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The Repubs controlled all THREE branches of federal govt. for 6 of the last nearly 8 years. Did they EVER introduce or even mention this amendment? Well no they didn’t…why? Because it would tear the Republican party apart and destroy their electoral chances. Why the Democrats have NEVER called the Republicans bluff on this issue I don’t know, but there you have it.
The Repubs are probably more protective of Roe than you would imagine. It’s their hot button issue – they need something to churn up votes with, so they can do what they really want to do – CUT TAXES. Whatever would they do without it?
Bullseye! Roe v Wade was, is, and will be the law of the land. It is just too good a wedge issue for both sides to hammer the electorate with.
Norma McCorvey, a woman largely ignored by the feminist movement. She has obviously moved on from being “Roe”.
Obama had better watch out – if he keeps it up, Hillary will have to speak out against this crap.
Frankly, I think that might be a good political move for her now.
McCain and Palin have records of working out solutions to problems; solutions that benefitted the majority of the people. Obama and Biden, NO. They are in the pocket of many special interests who switch sides so that they will always have a string on whoever is in power. They decided that Bush and the Republican party had shown mediocre performance and they know the electorate is mad. But they are severely underestimate the people’s capacity to analyze the problems and their ability to evaluate people and the solutions they present. I am for whoever is sincerely for the people.
This is precisely what I can’t understand that half the public can’t seem to figure out. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden are beholden to the extreme, radical left. Neither one of them has a bi-partisan bone in their body.
A feminist’s argument for McCain’s VP
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/06/INB312NP3M.DTL
good read!
I had a few interactions with Tammy Bruce back when she was the president of Los Angeles NOW. Tammy, back then, was not polished – in fact, she had a bit of a monobrow – and a lot of people in NOW hated her guts for being “power-hungry.” Since then I have been shocked at her rise as one of the right’s darlings…but I have to say, she wrote a damn good article there. I’m starting to understand why she turned her back on the left.
Thanks, Kat in your Hat – that was a well-written article. Appreciate the link!
I think one of the more shocking aspects [okay, shocking from my perspective] is realizing the feminist viewpoint in 2008 has shriveled to a liberal-only club.
I consider myself a moderate. I thought [wrongly, I can see now] that fighting for a woman’s right to choose was applied to “all” women and “all” choices. Work or stay at home. Career or a traditional life. Controlling our biological destiny–our choice, personal, individual–to prevent pregnancy or see a pregnancy through or to terminate [within reasonable parameters, from my point of view].
When did the criteria change?
If in fact, Sarah Palin is not the “right” kind of woman then what does that say? We’ve merely traded one oppressive dictate for another. You ain’t liberal enough, you ain’t worth bothering with.
I want neither man nor woman telling me what to do with my own body. And I certainly don’t need Gloria Steinem making judgments about who qualifies as a real woman. Because if I don’t qualify and Sarah Palin doesn’t qualify than no woman qualifies.
And sorry, Ms Steinem, being a woman is more than a chromosome count.
The whole liberal establishment has lost my respect. Or perhaps, I’ve finally started to really see what was there all along.
Barack Obama is too stupid to know he’s stupid! And, he proved it.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13217.html
Here are some facts proving that Obama is an idiot:
Gov. Palin’s Commander in Chief credentials:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=2483
http://www.airdefenseartillery.com/online/PhotoGallery/GMD/49thMissileDefenseBattalionHome.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/agency/49md.htm
I visited the old interview with Palin on Charlie Rose Green Room. Palin’s first jobs were baby sitting and being a waitress. She says those jobs could be very hands on, hard work and some of the things she learned doing that work apply right in the Governor’s office. Now how is that going to go over in blue collar land. Compare that to Obama Biden. I also understand that just within the last week, Biden’s 21 year old daughter was arrested in a bar incident. Yes, I think they better keep the children out of this.
I just watched that too (there is a link for it here at NQ on another thread in the comments.
It reminded me of Hillary.
They also have the interview with her and Napolitano about Gubernatorial responsibility.
The O’Reilly OB interview part two and three looks like a good one from the pre-view I saw. Ob tries to laugh it off but he can’t do what Hillary did – match him wit for wit and detail for detail. Hillary walked into the lion’s den and came out smiling. Ob — looks like he got torn to shreads. Again. Naturally.
Amy thanks for all you do. It amazes me constantly that they just don’t see what they say and do is the opposite of what they are supposedly all about.
Hypocrites, the whole lot of them.
Biden is Pro-life. *crickets*
I found the following on a blogspot called civileyes it is excerpt from a book called Narative of Sojourner Truth, A bondwoman of Olden Times
“In October of 1858 Sojourner Truth gave a series of lectures in Silver Lake, Indiana, on the abolition of slavery. During the course of her lectures,rumors were circulated that she was actually a man possing as a woman. At her final talk a man challenged the notion and asked her to prove her womanhood by allowing certain women in the audience to examine her breast. The challenge was put to a vote “aye” Many women in the audience were appalled but Sojourner appeared undaunted. She told the men that her breasts had suckled many ……
From her place in front of the congregation Sojourner revealed her breasts and told the men that it was not to her shame that she did so but to theirs.”
From 1858 to 2008 the same friken stuff goes on – . To Obama and his campaign and msm and his trolls
shame on you.
I just read at the Huff Post that michele o is planning to adopt a disabled child.
I thought she already had a 47 year old one.
Zing!
But will the baby come from Mother Theresa’s orphanage?
Does Barack know?
This takes pandering to a whole new level.
If she did indeed say that, it will be like the school her husband was going to build in Kenya. It ain’t happenin’.
Will it be a Caucasian child?
Are you kidding????
I think it’s good for America (and for women’s equality) to have a woman VP, even a republican woman. I think the meaning of “feminism” has become so boxed in due to one main issue: reproductive rights. It’s like people forgot the other key parts of women’s equality, how about rivaling men’s power at the very top? Let’s get shoulder to shoulder on that ladder already.
I think it’s GOOD for America to have Todd Palin be “first dude,” and a stay-at-home dad. I think this is the most powerful and positive message concerning fatherhood (and motherhood) in our country. I like that Sarah says that Todd “loves being a dad as much as I love being a mom.” I think that’s fantastic!
There are many who seem to think mothers should be at home with the kids…I am almost surprised by this in 2008, and I see that this is another prejudiced belief that needs to be fought.
One of the most interesting things is that we have had TWO women, both touching on nearly every facet of sexism. Hillary received certain types of sexism and now Sarah pulls in the other kinds that were missed. It’s been fascinating and disturbing. But, overall, I think it’s good for the USA, good for us to fight through this and really make a difference!
Women were taught that they didn’t count when it came to this current dem party. Literally….women did NOT count. They thought they could screw over women because, where else will they go? Nowhere, right? They’ll “get over it” and be controlled as usual, we’ll just scream about abortion if they get out of line. Later on, we can try to guilt trip them, etc.
Whatever, how about this: Women, stop using choice as your main reason to be a hostage of the new sexist democratic party, think outside of the womb! Women are more than just their uteruses! Let’s get money, power, and real equality. Women’s advancement is happening too slowly, we need to MOVE UP the ladder. Now is the time. Little boys and girls MUST grow up and see that it is normal NOW. We can change everything now.
Everyone knows that feminist women care deeply about pro-choice. That’s why democrats take them for granted, and that’s why republicans don’t bother with you.
If you take away your pro-choice issue as your only women’s issue, guess who NEEDS you? Every single party…and every single party will offer women something…every single party will realize they need you and need to fight for your vote.
Old school feminists with their one big issue being pro-choice have HELD WOMEN BACK for LONG ENOUGH! Time to expand and work the system.
Stop letting your vote be taken for granted. Stop running in place.
I’ve come to realize that feminists’ version of pro-choice means their choice and no other.
WOW, Kat – you are ROCKING!! You are absolutely BANG on! GREAT comment!
BMC – the info on the Alaska National Guard is most informative. It really puts Gov. Palin’s work into perspective, and the incredibly dismissive attitude of Democrats to her work/responsibilities (I’m sorry – when did being right next door to Russia and dealing with that NOT constitute foreign policy experience? Trekking in Pakistan while on college break does, but not THIS? Incredible!).
And thanks, Sassy!
Thanks for all your work Rev. Amy!
I fear that many of these groups have been so entrenched in combat against one party, that they cannot measure today’s progress.
With personalities out of the way, I truly believe we could solve these issues…no, no side would get 100%, but we could continue to advance the dialogue!
Drudge is advancing that the New York Times is getting ready to publish something very sinister against Palin’s baby. I guess they have made an Oprah Whitey decision to smear Palin and give Obambi a pass.
I cannot believe how frightened the left is about Sarah. Just a week ago they were celebrating what they determined to be a slam dunk for Obama and today they are freaking out.
Something sinister? hmmm, let me guess, Trig is the love child of Sarah and Todd’s business partner?
Trig is the son of Sarah’s middle child.
Sarah drank heavily while pregnant with Trig?
I know! It’s not a real baby at all because they never saw it cry. It’s a rubber doll. What disgusting cretins.
I think NARAL, NOW, Emily’s List and others are making a big mistake attacking Sarah. I am pro-choice but I am disgusted how women who are supposed to be on the forefront on advancement for women don’t recognize what Sarah’s candidacy (win) will do for all women.
To have a woman this close to the WH is historic and they should be cheering for Sarah rather than trying to tear her down. The backlash will be huge, imo.
If I am representative of other pro-choice working women they are going to have a hard sell. I only makes me more determined than ever to vote for McCain/Palin.
Thank You as always RRRA! Great article. I think the Dems are trying to define, motherhood at this point, and I wish them well on that, it has been tried for generations and the path of motherhood is as diverse as the people who walk that path.
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Can anybody please explain the following to me? I must be one of those really stupid people.
“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.” – stinky
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2700555/Barack-Obama-wanted-to-join-the-US-military.html
Does that statement say what I think it does.
That if there was an ongoing conflict, he then would have definitely considered joining, or actually enlisting, even if not drafted.
He’s looking back at this moment, I guess, in the expectation that he could have been in some kind of heroic personal trauma as was his presidential opponent. But this revelatory dilemma for him is only being presented now since that life story carries so much positive electoral weight for an older POW.
What kinds of squirrels are running around in that skull?
Not to in any way disparage rodents .
I can already write Sarah’s next stump speech line for Obama: Senator Obama, the other day you were criticizing me for seeking earmarks as the governor of Alaska. Senator Obama, that’s what governors of states do for their constituents. But maybe you just thought earmarks were for employers of wives who get 200% raises after their husbands are elected to Congress.
RRRA, as another lifetime feminist I’ll say that these women’s groups who endorsed BO and are now on their high horse over Palin, simply are no longer feminists. They left the ideals back in the 70’s and got on the hope-i-can-kiss-yr-ass-Dem-party-and-barky-bus.
Their line right now sounds more like attempted emotional manipulation and disingenuous concern. Im not buying it and I cut off associations with them when they endorsed BO.
But I got news for them, they can bark all they want at Sarah Palin, she isnt going to crumble. Why in hell should she? Its not like she is being betrayed as Hillary was by her own party.(And note Hillary never crumbled either!) These are attacks that are expected in a campaign (even though the attacks seem especially low-life in tone). Palin and the Republicans are expecting a lot of diversionary rhetoric from the Dems, its just par for the course, from both parties. Its simply astonishing that the Dems are taking this sexist tone and confirms for me my own departure from this party that no longer represents me.
I hope in the weeks to come the Repubs launch a full scale attack on all BO shortcomings, Biden seems so incidental he isnt worth mentioning. I love that Palin has more popularity right now than either man. That speaks volumes about America’s desire for true change. I mean bringing a woman leader into the White House.
Thank you Rev Amy!
Ironically, both Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry are pro-life and anti-gay. They both attend a church that strongly supports that. In fact, I think it’s still anti-contraception, too. Sarah Palin was baptized in that same church. She eventually left, finding it too repressive for her belief system. Pelosi and Kerry did not. Kerry and Pelosi have never tried to force their church’s beliefs onto the general population. Just the opposite.
This is not about people’s personal religion, it’s about how they will legislate and whether or not they are capable of keeping the line between church and state separate. Will they uphold the Constition and the law?
I flat out trust McCain/Palin on this more then Obama. Obama attended a church for 20yrs who’s whole philosophy involves using politics to realize and exercise their religious agenda. They blur the line. So did Father Pleglar when he practiced politics from the pulpit. So did Rev Wright.
The NYT already did a hit piece on McCain alleging he was with some lobbyist. All it got them was a backlash. I can’t believe they are trying the same tactic again. They must really want to go out of business!
Campbell Brown’s Foreign Policy Experience vs Sarah Palin’s.
“But don’t you believe NARAL. If it were true that they represent a woman’s right to choice, why then would they fight so hard against the Republican nominee for Vice-President, Sarah Palin? Truth is, NARAL is not for a woman’s choice — wasn’t Sarah Palin and her daughter’s choice to keep their babies the exercise of a right they have according to NARAL? Instead, their choice not to abort and their reputation has been challenged by NARAL and by the hard left-wing extremist Democrats, who ironically for years have fought for the exact same right they are now denying in a most callous manner.
So, you see, NARAL is not anything but Pro-Abortion and Pro-Infanticide; due most compellingly to their support for both third trimester abortions and policy of no life support for surviving infants born despite abortion attempts. Barack Obama is expressly the NARAL organ for the proposition that life does not begin until they say so.
But tens of millions of people have replied, at Saddleback and elsewhere, with the exuberant support of Sarah Palin, we responsible Americans will decide for ourselves when life beings, not NARAL and certainly not Barack Obama. As a matter of fact, Mr. Obama, life beings at conception. For certainly if the Mars rover is looking for a single-celled organism to call it life, we choose to call the product of human conception the start of human LIFE.”
Complete blog:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=56
I found it odd both Clinton and Biden were both born in Sranton Ohio…Is this true for Biden? Or just a campaign stunt to pick up some votes in Ohio…
I hope Palin does well in Michigan,Florida,Ohio,and Pennsylvania..Clinton won in Pennsylvania,even though the Kennedy’s had backed Obama…Hope they all come over to Mccain/Palin..
Great post RRR Amy; well said!!
Thanks for writing this RR Amy. I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. I don’t think Gov. Palin is “wrong” because she believes different than I. She has governed without imposing her beliefs on her constituents and I do not doubt she will continue to govern in the same manner.
After watching the left tear Hillary to shreds and by extension all women, they will not get my vote but Mccain Palin will.
I still have not gotten over NARAL endorsing BO…it will never make sense to me….
I am Pro choice for all women. Period.
I will not tolerate listening to one woman decide that another women should have an abortion.
I respect the religious beliefs of others, though I do not follow the teachings of organized religion myself.
I have been STUNNED by the response in the MSM and feminists that I used to respect.
I have taken the time to email those people to let them know of my personal disagreement with their public statements. I also asked them to reconsider their words………….
Thank You for your very through and honest assessment of where we are now.
Soon, the whole nation will be speaking in tounges. Gender and race are glossing over the real problem. Perhaps the problem of gross overpopulation and imminant destruction of pretty much any species you can name forces people to petty soap operetic religious clarification, and concommitant battle. Who cares how you vote. It is too late.
EXCELLENT post Rev!!! I was telling a friend of mine earlier today, no more will me and my vag/uterus be held hostage by the boys in the DNC. No more!
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It does not mean that all unwanted/unplanned pregnancies MUST end in abortion, which is what some folks are making it sound like now.”
Amen! I don’t think there’s a woman alive anyway, who finds abortions festive. I believe the right should be preserved, but let’s not act as though they are akin to seaweed facials. Dammit.
McCain got cought with his pants down while he was married, and in bed as one of the main protagonists of the Keating Five. Vote for McCain and you vote for a stacked Supreme Court against womans rights of equality. You people have too much time on your hands and are not doing anything. Let us all get high on rightousness and speak in tounges and handle snakes and such. That is the value of you comment and vote. Do something with this energy, blogging is an unproductive drug.
Then why are you here, Dave? Your posts are certainly UNPRODUCTIVE on this site – that’s for sure!
Thank you so much for the great post!!!
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Gloria Steinem, the former publisher of Ms. Magazine, and a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton’s in the primary, spelled out her concerns about Palin in an Op-Ed for the LA Times:
She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women’s wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves “abstinence-only” programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers’ millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn’t spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve,though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling.
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
Surely no one will say Steinem isn’t a feminist?
Heh. You neocons are so obvious.
Imagine that! Steinem now getting her news “facts” from Huff & Puff. I know this is the sort of thing that they’d love to get worked up about, since there’s not much to get themselves in the limelight any more but really…Gloria if you can’t be bothered to find out any other way, why don’t you ask someone who actually knows Sarah about her positions. I doubt she’ll have time to talk to you personally.
“So, you see, NARAL is not anything but Pro-Abortion and Pro-Infanticide;…”
What an absolutely idiotic statement.
Heh. You guys reveal your extreme right wing leanings with every word you write.
It’s like saying Obama is a socialist. Heck, he’s just a sleazy Democrat. Like anyone in their right mind, him included, wants to take people’s hard earnings and redistribute them. Like Congress would let him. Like he’d like to do it to himself. Socialism has already been proven not to work, and Obama is as big a capitalist as any (ever see him promoting his books?)
This blog has become a big joke.
Democratic socialism works just fine. Europe, Japan, and most of the civilized world use this form of government, and they’re doing far better than we are–better health care, longer life spans, less crime, longer vacations, etc. America needs to get into democratic socialism to catch up with the rest of the world.
If you don’t like socialism, get off of my sidewalk.
Or I will fight you. I live in a place without sidewalks. And, I lived in post Nazi Germany for twelve years. You are asking the ignorant to govern.
I also am a post-menopausal woman who has a much more “nuanced” position on the “pro-choice” position than I had 20 or 30 years ago.
My daughter is now 31 years old. When she was in high school in a “good school district”, in an affluent area of the state with easy access to contraception, she knew several girls who became pregnant before finishing high school. Some of these girls ended their pregnancies with abortions and at least in one girl’s case she had one baby but terminated subsequent pregnancies with abortion.
It became obvious to me that the problem of teen-age pregnancy is much more complex, than most of us would like to believe. I am still “pro-choice” but like this excellent article pointed out, “pro-choice” should include the “choice to have one’s baby.” Also how do we reconcile using “abortion as a means of birth control” as I saw some teen-age girls do when there are much more safer and inexpensive means of contraception available? (The article noted that Palin does support birth control)
It should also be pointed out that Hitler and his minions not only persecuted the Jews whom they considered an inferior race but some of their first victims were people who were mentally retarded and others deemed “undesirables”. Sarah Palin’s beautiful son, who happens to have Down’s syndrome, should not be the target of cruel jokes and insinuations. Nor should she be judged negatively because she and her husband chose to have a baby that doesn’t fit into someone else’s idea of “perfection”.
Although I don’t agree with Sarah Palin on all of her political positions, I admire her courage that she has shown in her political career and in her personal life, and that she has bucked the system even within her own party. She must be doing something right to have an over 80% approval rating from her constituents in Alaska. This is the first time in almost 40 years I will be voting the republican ticket for the presidency but the McCain/Palin ticket is infinitely more preferable than what the democrats have to offer this year.
Amazing. That’s my only comment.
Not to sound like a Debbie Downer, but I was wondering when the real women – who believed in true, unbiased equality – would stand up to this nonsense. So far, I’ve only heard conservative women saying how exciting it is that there’s a woman!
And it is exciting, and she CAN do it. I hope she gets the chance, because more than anything, I want to see her prove all these A-holes completely wrong and set feminism back on the path it belongs!
It’s not about her being a woman….it’s the redneck aspect,,the killing of animals for fun,the deception,the lies and her stance on abortion,religion in schools and many other beliefs that oppose MY beliefs. That’s a legitimate reason for me not to like her as a candidate. If SHE does win, she will set feminism back, in the long run.
when bristols baby is grown enough to find out alot of these democrats wanted them to be murdered and never born and that it was “all Sarah’s fault she had to let the baby live”…then they will say “thank you grandma…why did they want mommy to kill me?”
………and when the child Googles Daddy and sees that Daddy didn’t want kids?????
My response to NOW’s email entitled “Have Conservatives Discovered Sexism?”
“I appreciate your article. But you failed to mention that although organizations like NOW and Emily’s List denounced sexism aimed at Hillary Clinton during the primaries, the Democrat Party Leaders and the Obama Campaign did NOT because it served their purpose (i.e. the sexism helped defeat Hillary Clinton and allowed Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, etc to select their chosen one Obama). And even after Hillary Clinton conceded, Pelosi, other Democratic leaders and Obama would not denounce the sexism Hillary Clinton faced during the primaries. Don’t forget that many party leaders were asking/pushing Hillary Clinton to quit when she was still winning – one of the sexist acts by the Democratic Leaders that angered me the most. So for political reasons (namely wanting Obama to defeat Hillary Clinton) the Democratic Leaders failed to denounce sexism, they did not do right by their biggest constituency – WOMEN. The Democrats let women down because they assumed that scare tactics / threats that Roe vs Wade would be overturned would scare them to vote for Obama. Obama and Democratic leaders assumed women would fall-in line or just “get over it” because we have ovaries and care about abortion rights – they didn’t have to earn our votes or respect because we woman who supported Hillary Clinton would never vote for a Republican. Well this time they miscalculated! My vote will not be taken for granted because of the abortion issue. I will vote for McCain, not because he selected Palin, but because Obama and the Democratic Party doesn’t deserve my vote!
So you can mock the Republicans for their “discovery of sexism” and yes it may be politically driven to denounce and attack those who have aimed their sexism at Sarah Palin but at least they are fighting back, unlike the failure of the Democratic Leaders and Obama campaign. I am thrilled to see Fiorina and other Republican leaders stand up against the revolting sexism aimed at Sarah Palin. Senator Reed’s “shrill” comment and Biden’s “good looking” comment do not represent a good example by Democratic party leaders and are clear indications of their continued failure to women of this country.
I hope NOW stands up to and denounces any and all sexism aimed at Sarah Palin. We may differ on the issues but we are ALL women and we must unite against any sexism regardless of the female candidate’s political party. I will be watching to see what organizations do defend Sarah Palin against sexism and denounce sexism in general when determining future contributions!
Hillary Clinton 2012, McCain 2008, Nobama ever!”
people like you gave us war. It seems that you are frustrated with a two party system.
Tammy Bruce wrote a really great article on this subject.
“A Feminists Argument for McCain’s VP”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/a_feminists_argument_for_mccai.html
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