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Palin: wrong woman, wrong message
LA Times ^ | September 4, 2008 | Gloria Steinem

Posted on 09/04/2008 6:48:34 AM PDT by nikos1121

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."

So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband.

And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.

This could be huge.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: nikos1121

National Organization for LIBERAL Women.

Unmasked hatred for conservative values.

It is NOT about women. It is about LIBERAL ideology. There is NO DOUBT about that, now.


61 posted on 09/04/2008 7:08:31 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: RichInOC

She didn’t sleep her way to political power. Unlike Hillary.

I thought that was Bill sleeping his way to power without Hillary.


62 posted on 09/04/2008 7:10:47 AM PDT by ari-freedom (You better think think about what you're trying to do to me)
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To: Rammer

And STILL no comment from Hillary!

She’s in Chappaqua cackling her cankles off!


63 posted on 09/04/2008 7:10:49 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: AmericaUnited

Please Gloria, go back to your ironing...

Why isn’t my shirt ready yet?


64 posted on 09/04/2008 7:12:55 AM PDT by hdstmf
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To: Blueflag
Checking the comments from the first article you linked to from "across the pond" had me LOL!

"Sara Palin has cured my electile disfunction."

65 posted on 09/04/2008 7:13:52 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: nikos1121
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

Oh, Lord, let it be so. Amen.

66 posted on 09/04/2008 7:14:29 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (For events that occurred in 1938, real time is 1938, not 2008.)
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To: nikos1121

and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

only to be dumped for some drunk guy who won only a couple thousand votes. Equal pay for equal work?


67 posted on 09/04/2008 7:15:15 AM PDT by ari-freedom (You better think think about what you're trying to do to me)
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To: nikos1121
Sarah, you're definitly over the target. This is the rally point, commence bombing run.


68 posted on 09/04/2008 7:15:59 AM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: syriacus
the anti-feminist right wing ...-- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.

Here is the real genius of the Palin VP pick:

It gives the appearance of being an affirmative action ploy. It is not. I don't think it was possible for McCain to pick a male version of Gov. Palin (relative unknown who is strongly conservative),and there really weren't any popular candidates who were conservative enough (Rudy, Romney, et al.). The fake affirmative action angle gave McCain cover to name a real, honest-to-god, middle american as his VP choice.

69 posted on 09/04/2008 7:18:11 AM PDT by j. earl carter
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To: nikos1121
"...We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes..."

Not really. You owe it to women like my mother who got up every day and went to work, and ran her own business, and raised 4 proud, patriotic, productive Americans (well, 3 out 4; my sister's still kind of a hippie, but she does own a gun!).

You don't owe it to a bunch of hairy-legged unwashed professional malcontents. As with all necessary social changes in America, it was the ordinary folks who just did what needed to be done, without fanfare, without protest signs, without television cameras, and without the cancerous anger with which the left has infected this nation.
70 posted on 09/04/2008 7:18:32 AM PDT by conservativeharleyguy (Obammunists: Millions fooled daily!!!)
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To: nikos1121
She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger!

Badge of honor!

71 posted on 09/04/2008 7:19:12 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: nikos1121
Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.

She is exactly correct!

Hillary, like all true feminists, rode her hubby's coattails to what little power she has been able to attain.

72 posted on 09/04/2008 7:19:21 AM PDT by CharacterCounts (When you discover rats in your house, you only have two options - fumigate or tolerate.)
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To: nikos1121
"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."

"We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs"

"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

- Gloria Steinem.

Put some ice on it, Gloria.

73 posted on 09/04/2008 7:20:10 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Palin has run a state, city, and a business. NObama has only run his mouth.)
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To: markomalley
The more howls I hear from the MSM, the better I like her!!

Same here, and maybe we won't have to see all those awful pantsuits and cankles.

74 posted on 09/04/2008 7:21:11 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Sarah Palin is NOT worried about anything being above her pay grade!)
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To: nikos1121

Funny - that’s the slogan we’ve used for Steinem for 30+ years.


75 posted on 09/04/2008 7:23:24 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Blueflag

thanks for those UK stories. British MSM can see from across the ocean what ours can’t see in person


76 posted on 09/04/2008 7:25:04 AM PDT by Piers-the-Ploughman (Just say no to circular firing squads.)
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To: nikos1121

“Barack’s sidekick Joe Biden looks a dull old dog compared with the ball of fire that is Palin.”

Goodness Gracious! Great BALLS OF FIRE!

Jerry Lee “the Killer” Lewis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-ZBookLRM


77 posted on 09/04/2008 7:28:59 AM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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To: Piers-the-Ploughman

Gloria Steinem and the Sisterhood of the Murdered Babies. There I said it!
Hey Gloria, I can smell your feet!


78 posted on 09/04/2008 7:29:08 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"1973"

Actually Steinum, Friedan, and most of the other arch-femimist hags were/are strong Marxists. That affiliation was conveniently left out of the narrative when their cohorts in Big Media were giving them all that coverage in the heyday of the so-called feminist revolution.

79 posted on 09/04/2008 7:33:25 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: omega4179
If sarah had just bravely aborted her baby she could be just like a liberal. Because none of this is about feminism its about liberalism and aborting the helpless.

Sarah Palin slices and dices these feminist hags and their satanic philosophy without even trying. All she has to do is stand there with her family. While the Obama death cultists harp on defending the "right to choose", the voters will see sweet little Trig. He is the face of the all the innocent imperfect babies the hags demand a right to kill. Yet there he is, a real baby being held and loved by a real family. He's not a political prop, he's just a little guy on a world stage - a silent witness who speaks more persuasively than the slickest of Harvard grads.

80 posted on 09/04/2008 7:38:31 AM PDT by Ezekiel (Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.)
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