I came across this live program on Twitter. Women are expressing their views, right now on Sarah Palin as Vice President. What do you think?
Women should weigh in on this issue at the source, http://womenrespondtopalin.com/
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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Well, this video shouldn't be titled "Real women respond to Sarah Palin". It should be titled "Some women respond to Sarah Palin".
I do not think Palin was qualified to be VP and hope she will not attempt to return to the national scene in 2012. IMO the gaping holes in her knowledge and inability to speak grammatically correct sentences render her unacceptable.
However, I'm much in favor of a young, charismatic female Rep...but not Palin. And lets be clear about one key point; the women most enraged at Palin were upset specifically because Palin was a woman. Rep males have held conservative positions for years and have not drawn the level of rancor shown to Palin. Why? Because women on the radical Left view Palin as a gender traitor (sort of a female Uncle Tom). And as we well know, one of the traits of the Leftist (a remnant of communist ideology) is solidarity and complete obediance to the Party Line. No apostates allowed, no diversity of opinion.
The very concept of a female pro-life conservative threatens the foundation of the femmnist movement.
During the Webathon, a young woman emotionally recounted how she was raped and subsequently impregnated. "Governor Palin," she said, "I was raped. I didn't have a choice. I shouldn't be forced into bearing the consequences for a violent, disgusting crime."
One of the things I have tried to introduce into our discourse has been the idea that we all tend to be conservative on some issues, liberal on others. I suspect that these women of the "radical Left," as you call them, are really no different. In general, women didn't see her so much as a female "Uncle Tom" as an embarrassment. As you'll recall, women didn't have much use for Geraldine Ferarro, either (my wife voted for Reagan because of her). But women did like Hillary Clinton--not because they were "radically Left," but because she was a highly intelligent woman with a fairly broad appeal (no pun intended).
A woman's right to choose has been an article of faith in the feminist movement, which was nurtured by the Democratic Party, and, to a large degree, mocked by the Republicans (I haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh lately, but your use of terms like "radical" and "communist" sound eerily like terms he adopted not long after he stopped using "femme Nazi"). I think you'd be surprised by how many pro-life women were off-put by Governor Palin. It wasn't "I don't believe in abortion" that raised their hackles, it was the addendum of, "even in cases of rape or incest." In order for our hypothetical young, charismatic female Republican to be effective, she has to speak not only the language of the right, but of the middle.
Independents, like my wife and I, occupy that coveted battleground, known as "swing voters." We have about as much appetite for the right/left paradigm that Democrats and Republicans are spewing as we have for shit sandwich. Like I said, we're all conservative on some things, liberal on others.
My advice for the selection of your hypothetical female Rep is, pick someone Limbaugh hates as much as he hated McCain.
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