Posted on 09/06/2008 11:19:13 AM PDT by mathprof
I’ve seen post after post on Hillary forums about how much they love Sarah, how they are energized and lifted out of depression by her (and the sight of an actual Roll Call made some of them weep). They gush about how she reminds them of their hero, how tough and savvy and unafraid she is. And I have seen these women, hard-core, feminist Democrats for 30 years and more, sit in slack-jawed amazement at Palin and at how fiercely Republicans — Republicans! — are defending her, backing her, and cheering her to the rafters. These Clinton supporters say they don’t know what to think any more: The Republicans are behaving like Democrats and the Democrats are behaving like Republicans!
If you think that’s an insult, you’ve got it exactly backwards. That is not only a huge compliment from these abandoned, centrist Democrats who bemoan the loss of their party to the radicals, it is an early rumbling of a tectonic shift in American politics which we are only dimly beginning to grasp. Who are the real feminists? A significant portion of our former hard-core opposition is now rethinking in a fundamental way who it is that actually does what their former allies only talk about.
Expect the PC Police and their media allies to exert maximum effort in the coming eight weeks to put a lid on this. Good luck.
Now, here's Tom W's comment (fourth one down at Michael Weiss's Pajamas Media post):
The PUMAs are starting to love Palin because every single adult woman has stories of being patronized, passed over, etc., by men, and Palin has already shown that she will gut anybody who tries that on her.
Get this: I’ve now heard dozens of times that when Palin was trashing Obama, PUMA members say they were jumping up and down in their homes, screaming at the TV, in absolute flabbergasted wonder at this woman’s power, ease, style, grace, brains, and ability to speak and connect with the audience. Mostly, though, they love her mad assassin’s skillz.
American women will not let this candidate go. They love her deeply, not as a goddess, but as a sister, and they are slowly absorbing the fact that it took the REPUBLICANS to put a woman on the ticket. We may see many radical feminists become Republicans, I kid you not. One PUMA went to McCain’s speech last night, and she started sobbing because McCain was so humble and emotional, and the people around her were so nice, patriotic, and happy. She’s used to ugly, angry, smelly leftists.
And this is a vital point to remember: McCain honored all women by choosing an exceptional woman who outshines him. He is so much of a man, so comfortable and secure with his masculinity, that he is entirely unthreatened by the fact that he has chosen the person who will eventually eclipse him. If he had chosen a nonentity, they’d be enraged at the pandering, but by choosing someone more impressive than he is and making clear that she will be an activist veep, he showed all women that he’s sincere.
From what I hear from the PUMAs, they’re going to fight to the death to elect McCain, in gratitude for him choosing such a formidable, accomplished, skilled predator with a record of leaving sexist men huddled on the floor in tears. Nobody’s ever seen anything like Palin. She makes Hillary and Boxer and all the other Beltway insiders look like bizarre life-sized wind-up toys that say and do the same thing over and over for years, without actually accomplishing anything.
Several feminists are now predicting a McCain-Palin landslide.
Here’s hoping.
Wow. No wonder, as noted yesterday by NewsBusters colleague Noel Sheppard, Obama supporter Oprah Winfrey won't book Palin.
I hope this is accurate.
“And this is a vital point to remember: McCain honored all women by choosing an exceptional woman who outshines him. He is so much of a man, so comfortable and secure with his masculinity, that he is entirely unthreatened by the fact that he has chosen the person who will eventually eclipse him. If he had chosen a nonentity, they’d be enraged at the pandering, but by choosing someone more impressive than he is and making clear that she will be an activist veep, he showed all women that he’s sincere.”
Wow, just wow.
“the people around her were so nice, patriotic, and happy. She’s used to ugly, angry, smelly leftists. “
Got that right, we are nice patriotic and happy.
Even happier now that we have Sarah.
God Bless Sarah and God Bless America.
Pray for our troops.
They don't get it.
Sarah Palin/Hillary Alinsky Clinton = Apples/Oranges.
It remains to be seen if Tom Blumer’s prediction is overly optimistic. But I LOVE this article.
Best line of the article!!
As a woman I am going to look back on McCain’s choice, and the life of Sarah Palin as final validation of women who have not only brains, guts and voices, but aren’t afraid to
use them for the betterment of our nation and our world.
Not at the expense of males, Sarah has found a way to work with and for males side by side.
For years I have gnashed at the females who think it is necessary to put down males at every turn in order to gain foothold.
Sarah Palin has shown us the way - and what a beautiful way it is - finally.
A confident McCain comfortable with his manhood chose a woman who is making all women feel comfortable in their femalehood!
We are lucky that Obama didn’t pick Kathleen Sebelius. If he had, then even if McCain had picked Palin, the impact would have been less, and the charge that McCain was just pandering would sound more plausible. The Russian invasion of Georgia made Obama decide he needed a Biden to cover up his foreign policy weakness.
So, this "scandal" about how Gov Palin wanted a State Trooper fired, because he threatened to kill her father. This is supposed to hurt Sarah? Bring it on!
Wrong....these women's eyes have been opened to the truth that's been plain in sight, only they never bothered to look. Once they start paying attention, they'll realize how "conservative" they really are. Then the Dems are done. There will be no turning back for many of these women.
Welcome home, ladies!
This article is nice but don’t ever forgot NOW is really SOW or Socialist Organization of Women. Hard core lefties will vote left. It’s still going to be a fight.
Well, nice surprise isn't it?
McCain will end up being the UNITER, that Obama has claimed he could be. McCain's choice of Palin for VP has brought more unity between parties than Obama's audacious hopes! Isn't that speeeeecial!
It’s been striking to me how Sarah refers to McCain as a “great man,” and inflects it too, and never once calls him the neuter ‘great person.’ Not afraid in the least to support someone who is a man.
We now have the phenomenon of Dem hitwomen going out to block a woman from becoming the vice-president of the U.S. (Hillary, Sibelius) Huh? How will Dem. women react? You didn’t want a woman on the ticket but it’s ok for them to go out and do your dirty work for you? Good luck with that, Hussein.
These people have fallen for the MSM’s stereotype of conservatism. We actually have proof that strong women are included within our ranks and demand and get respect from their peers, whether it be man or woman.
It is the Dim party who gives minorities and women short shrift while expecting them to bow at the altar of liberalism on election day.
Conservatives care about marriage because we care about the well-being of all, man, woman and child. The libs think being a wife and a mother handicaps you and makes you into a mind-numbed robot when it actually empowers you. It challenges you to learn to become active to make the world a better place for your family.
“Several feminists are now predicting a McCain-Palin landslide.”
I’m starting to think so too.
Metallica?
Bump/Bookmark — great stuff from Mr. Blumer.
Link doesn’t seem to work.
Yes, now if only Palin can get Hillary's shrill, condescending tone, and a few more over-sized pantsuits...
Newsbusters is carving out a nice niche for itself.
They have been publishing some material with substance lately.
Type “pumas for palin” into the search box up on top, some good stuff there
A confident McCain comfortable with his manhood chose a woman
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To me, it was ......A confident McCain chose a LADY. A classy lady of STEEL.
Let’s split the difference Tomas - Palin is both a woman and a lady - a wonderful combination when backed up with intellect and a focus on the future of this nation.
For once it isn’t a gender-based contest but a supportive pairing - which gives it a dynamic missing in so many other attempts in political appointments.
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