The Four Strategies Of Conservative Female Abuse (Left's Dehumanization Of Conservative Women Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 9/03/2008 | Michelle Malkin

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There's something about outspoken conservative women that drives the Left mad. It's a peculiar pathology I've reported on for more than 15 years, both as a witness and a target. Thus, the onset of Palin Derangement Syndrome in the media, Democratic circles and the cesspools of the blogosphere came as no surprise. They just can't help themselves.

Liberals hold a special animus for constituencies they deem traitors. Minorities who identify as social and economic conservatives have left the plantation and sold out their people. Women who put an "R" by their name have abandoned their ovaries and betrayed their gender. As female Republican officeholders and female conservative public figures have grown in number and visibility, so has the progression of Conservative Female Abuse. The astonishing vitriol and virulent hatred directed at GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the most severe manifestation to date.

The first stage of Conservative Female Abuse by the Left is infantilization. Right-wing women can't possibly believe what they say they believe about the sanctity of life, self-defense, free markets or foreign policy. They must be submissive little dolls of the White Male Hierarchy. Or, as a far-Left (Is there any other kind of Left in San Francisco?) San Francisco Chronicle columnist wrote of first lady Laura Bush, they must be put in their place as "docile doormats" with no brains of their own. True to form, no sooner had John McCain announced Gov. Palin as his veep pick than jeers of "Palin = neocon puppet" sprouted across the Internet.

The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. MSNBC hosts insulted former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson's accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant and Jeff Danziger have caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, including as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot and a Bush "House nigga" armed with "hair straightener." New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Republican, for applying "her makeup with a trowel."

True to form, Dowd was first out of the box to snicker at Gov. Palin's beauty pageant past, ridicule her "beehive and sexy shoes" and compare her path to the vice-presidential nomination as a "hokey chick flick." Joe Biden backhandedly praised her as "good looking." And Left-wing bloggers worked overtime on lurid Photoshops of Palin as a bikini model and porn star. At the Democratic Underground, a highly trafficked liberal website raising money for Barack Obama, members held a contest to come up with nicknames and posters to slime GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- and then to "spread [them] all over the 'Net." Among the nicer entries: "Cruella," "Gidget," "Governor Jesus Camp," "VPILF," "Fertilla the Huntress," "Iditabroad" and "KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE B***H FROM HELL!!"

The third stage of CFA is demonization. When the Left tires of hurling whore insults, it turns conservative women in the public eye into nefarious creatures. Bill Maher called Laura Bush "Hitler's dog." George Carlin attacked Barbara Bush as "the Silver douche bag." A Huffington Post website member wrote of Nancy Reagan: "Like her evil husband, she has lived far too long. Here's hoping the hag suffers for several weeks, then croaks in the tub." Another commenter added: "I feel no pity for the bitch who took delight in watching thousands die of a horrible disease and watching the poor having to eat out of dumpsters because of her husband's political beliefs."

True to form, rumors of Palin being a crypto-Nazi surfaced on the Internet and in the fringe media. And liberal critics used her gun-rights record to smear her as bloodthirsty.

The final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren't real women according to the liberal feminist establishment's definition. Remember when Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator"? Or when curdled NOW leader Patricia Ireland instructed Democrats to vote only for "authentic" female political candidates? Or when Al Gore's fashion consultant Naomi Wolf described the foreign-policy analysis of Jeane Kirkpatrick as being "uninflected by the experiences of the female body"?

Echoing the bottom-feeders in the liberal blogosphere, mainstream journalists and Obama water-carriers now question Palin's commitment to motherhood and even challenge her prenatal care decisions in an effort to destroy her. Forget about questioning their patriotism. I question their sanity.

[Earthdweller]

"Just for the hell of it, someone from our side, Newt?, should ask one of these “Journalists” if they are trying to Shame Governor Palin’s daughter into having an abortion."

This is EXACTLTY what they are doing and this is EXACTLY what has been happening to our wives and daughters and sisters for over sixties years! You say this so smugly like it isn't true....but I tell you it is true!

This is part of the common bullying from the collective mindset. Abuse of women who don't go along with the collective is very harsh. Apparently even watching it happen right before your very eyes in the media is not enough for some people.

These vicious attacks are what the women of America go though on a local level everyday when they make these kinds of decisions.

Welcome to our world.

[Yosemitest]

I agree with Michelle Malkin and add an addition post to your post.

A Lesson on Liberals and Feminism
September 2, 2008

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Let's talk about the religion of liberalism for just a second, ladies and gentlemen.
What do liberals believe?
Well, among other things -- listen to me on this -- what do liberals believe?
They believe that a woman is more than just being a mom at home. It's what they say they believe.

They believe that a woman is every bit as qualified to hold public office as a man.
They believe that premarital sex and sex by teenagers is normal, natural, and we shouldn't try to stop it because we can't stop it, they're going to have sex.
They want to deal with it by having sex education in the schools.
Liberals say they believe that a woman should have a choice over whether she kills her baby or not, and liberals believe it's nobody's business to question that choice.
Correct?

Okay, now, that's what they say they believe.
But now here they are pretending that they actually believe the following in order to get elected by tearing down Governor Palin and her family.

I just went through with you what they believe.
Here's what they are pretending they actually believe,
that a woman cannot responsibly be more than a mother in her home,
she can't do both, women can't do both,
according to the new priests and priestesses of liberalism, she can't work outside the home and be a mother.
They're pretending to believe that a mother, Sarah Palin, who is a mother of small children, must not hold public office
and must step aside so that a man, Obama, who is a father of small children, can hold higher office. They think a woman [should],
"Get out of the way.
This is Barry's turn.
We're in the Beltway class.
You're getting in our way.
You shouldn't be running for office."

They are pretending to believe that premarital sex by a teenager -- Palin's daughter -- is terrible, awful,
and indeed so horrible the mother must be hounded off the national stage,

while they tell everybody else that premarital sex is wonderful,
there's love involved, we should give them condoms.
We certainly shouldn't try to stop it because we can't stop it.
But now it's all of a sudden they're pretending they think it's horrible.
Liberals are pretending that a woman, Palin's daughter, should have had the abortion.
And here liberals are now pretending that a woman, Sarah Palin, should have had the abortion, given her Down syndrome fetus.
And liberals are pretending that it is in the national interest and the common good to denounce both of these women for their choices,
to give birth
and to give birth and to work outside the home
and to get married and to raise a family.
Liberals are trying to make us believe they believe this,
and all of this is to serve their religion.
Their religion is getting elected.
The major sacrament to the religion of liberalism is abortion.

END TRANSCRIPT

Thanks again, for your comments
and for Rush's God-given wisdom.

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Dowd, no doubt, is jealous of Sara Palin’s very good looks and her success in life.

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Envy

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Yes, envy. I recall writing you about how Hillary must have felt if she watched Sara’s speech. She would be quaking in her boots at the thought of ‘meeting up’ with her in the future.

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Hillary?

Personality and ethics

Not likable and cannot fake it!

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Yes, I think I wrote on a thread that Hillary shows up as being cold and calculating and Sara can be stern but in a nice calm poised way. She is lovely and likable.

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Sarah Palin is loaded for bear

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[Sarah Palin is loaded for bear]

Lol, people didn't seem to like that personified in animations too much!! I removed them.