Hey, excommunicunt, you mean like THIS clown?>
Posted on 06/18/2011 6:31:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As a woman who has spent much of her adult life lobbying for and writing about equal rights and opportunities for women, I am distressed that some candidates for the upcoming national elections make me sick to my feminist stomach. I am talking about people like Michele Bachmann and the omnipresent Sarah Palin.
I want to see women in the highest offices in the country, I really do. But I feel obligated to evaluate female presidential candidates by the same standards I use to evaluate male candidates. They should be experienced, appropriate, articulate, and knowledgeable in domestic and foreign policy so they can effectively represent this nation in critical national and international forums.
This means that people who don’t realize Concord, Mass. is different from Concord, N.H. or who insist Paul Revere’s famous ride was to warn the British flunk the test.
Add to this the fact that neither of these women supports any of the issues American women have fought so hard for, for decades, and you have the Equal opportunity, child care options, reproductive freedom, and freedom from sexual harassment are just a few of the issues American women are still fighting hard to obtain and/or preserve: neither Bachmann nor Palin seem interested or informed on any of them. It seems unconscionable that women could rise to the heights of power as these two have and still be depending on vapid qualities for their popularity. Ask any man who likes either or both of them and the first thing he’ll tell you is how “hot” they look!
Will America now return to the old “casting couch” method for moving women up in the political pecking order?
I had a lifelong friend, an evangelical right-winger, chide me for not supporting Palin in 2008. When I suggested Palin actually opposed many of the issues critical to women I had spent my life fighting for, my friend said, “But you have to admit she’s a “pretty girl.”
I know looks have a role in political success, stupid as that is. It is one of the reasons men like Hubert Humphrey never got to be president and why JFK won the Nixon-Kennedy debates. I didn’t just fall off the political turnip truck, but I want to raise a big red flag over that truck that says, “Get Real, America!”
The idea of Sarah Palin of Michele Bachmann in the same sentence with President of the United States doesn’t make any more sense to me as a voter and a woman than nominating Barney Frank to the diplomatic corps. People are who they are, with qualities and liabilities. Intelligent, mature observers must separate the world as they would like it to be from the candidates as they, in fact, are.
I am willing to do this on the left and I implore those on the right to stop trying to support the policies they believe in through candidates totally unqualified for the full presidential responsibility.
I, for one, don’t want to hand the red phone to anyone who can’t even spell “nuclear holocaust.” Do you?
Great. IBTHTP!
“They should be experienced, appropriate, articulate, and knowledgeable in domestic and foreign policy .... and be pro-abortion just like me.”
There, fixed the sentence
She's got a point here. Although I enjoy looking at Sarah as much as the next guy, this country has got to get over its obsession with looks in a leader.
Indira Ghandi, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir were none of them good looking, but at least the last two were effective leaders of their country.
It should be noted the media spent a lot of time in the last election discussing how buff Obama was.
Hot? I hadn't noticed.
Agreed. Libs cannot see past Sarah’s beauty. If she had aborted Trig they would see genuine ugliness in her and would praise her as the next Joan of Arc.
Cheers!
If Sarah Palin was a Democrat she'd be the biggest liberal icon since FDR. You'd be reading and hearing things like: "the beautiful Sarah Palin was wearing a stunning dress and looked like a Hollywood star.....", and, "Sarah Palin is a woman who knows how to fight and knows how to win, she's talented, likeable and every bit as politically savy as Hillary Clinton. She will take America to new heights".
Hey, excommunicunt, you mean like THIS clown?>
Sorry, it’s EXCOMMUNICANT. Must get that other cateract fixed...
Until the Declaration of Independence was signed, technically, they were still British subjects.
Roe v Wade legalized infanticide. Where they get “reproductive rights” from, I don’t know. Though I’ll speculate that they call it “reproductive rights,” to maybe get it in the same vein that we have freedom of the press. So by saying it that way, it’s already less demonized than calling it what it is, murdering the unborn. At least, when it pops into Liberal’s heads, it’s less demonized.
Straight out of Animal Farm:
“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
They consider all women running for office equal, but the ones with a Liberal mindset are more equal than the rest.
Talk about morons!!! Sheeeesh!!!
She nailed it. Sounds like Sarah to me. Obama not.
LOL! I didn't know Obama can't spell "nuclear holocaust"? On top of not knowing the words 'corpsmen' and mispronouncing it three times as "corpse man". What a dolt.
Or letting his staff give a large button to the Russians with the word RESET in Cyrillic on the button. Only they misspelled RESET. Of course the liberal Democrat dolts didn't know any better but the Russians had a good guffaw over such a public display of Democrat stupidity.
Although she looks it, this woman can't be that old. The 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 but the women's suffrage movement began a long time before that.
All those other "rights" are like all liberal "rights." They are privileges for a particular group. The purpose is to create victim groups and class division. As long as we remember that everyone is equal before the law (courts) we will be fine. This "rights" create inequality under the law.
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