Listen up, waffling white ladies: Is there anything more narcissistic, more self-referential, than switching from Barack Obama to John McCain because Sarah Palin is a gal?
The latest Washington Post-ABC News Survey says that a bunch of white women voters have swapped sides since the Republicans named a woman as their vice-presidential candidate, although nobody called me and my friends, I can tell you that. Anyone who's ever made seventy-nine cents to a dumber guy's dollar appreciates the frisson, the little chill, that accompanies what seems like progress for women, whether we're talking about Hilary Clinton or Sarah Palin. It's nice, after all these years of bruising our noggins on that glass ceiling, to see somebody break through.
But have we lost brain cells from hitting our heads for so long? Are we so obsessed with settling the score that we have lost our critical faculties? In exchange for the bragging rights that would accompany having a woman a heartbeat away from the White House, white women and everyone else can get ready to surrender, oh, for starters, the environment, evolution, and - pay attention here - little things like Roe V. Wade.
Sarah Palin is not a hero because she's a woman, any more than Barack Obama is a hero because he's black. One report about the latest poll said that Democratic women under fifty have made the greatest shift, which dovetails nicely with the Republican observation that this is an election not about issues but about personality. What did we expect? We raise a generation on celebrity magazines and entertainment news - and they grow up to have their collective heads turned by Miss Congeniality.
Sarah Palin is not an avatar of women's equality, and if you want to prove that to yourself, try this little exercise. Imagine she's a guy. Imagine that everything she says is coming out of a guy's mouth. Oops. Looks like one more male politician who wants to take away your right to choose - your rights to choose, really, since reproductive rights is only one set of rights Ms. Palin hopes to ambush. Level the playing field - eliminate the novelty factor - and she doesn't even make the farm team.
[I know. Right now a McCain supporter is writing in to say that Obama would never have gotten to where he is today if he were a white guy. He or she is entitled to that opinion. I'm entitled to mine.]
Women who didn't like Hilary Clinton used to bemoan the fact that she was the first woman candidate for president who seemed to have a real chance to nab the nomination; if only it had been someone else, someone with better qualifications or a different backstory, they would have been more excited to support her. I feel that way about Sarah Palin. We have to make her gender the last thing on earth we care about, and stick with our principles.
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Yes ladies decide! Can she handel this!
So to all of the women here who are standing up to prove the sexists on the other side wrong, thank you. You are all the kind of role models I want my daughter to have.
It is also GREAT insult to women for the press to assume we will jump on the Palin bandwagon just because she has a vagina. Do they still think of us as bimbos? Other than her hamlet which she led from home, how can I feel secure knowing that if the old wizened McCain keels over, then we have Palin at the helm of affairs. It makes me want to HURL.
I am a FEMALE LAWYER and it will take loads more for me to consider McCain than his getting a running mate who menstruates monthly like I do.
As for the FAKE MADE UP polls. I want to see these people who are polled. Women between the ages of 18 and 35 almost exclusively use cell phones. They do not have land lines...so who is being polled and galluped over??????
Well, here is a shocker to the world, Obama draws more women than Mcain because we have families and are CONCERNED WITH ISSUES and not how much lipstick she puts on her dogs or pigs.
Also, she is playing in the big leagues now and so does not have the liberty of crying "I am a girl" when she feels attacked. If anyone has been rude, aggressive and vicious...it has been our dear pig in lipstick.
Sheesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is America. This is life in the "fly over states". I live in the Fingerlakes region of New York.
The ladies around here think the world of Sarah. We laugh and tell them to shut up.
This is what you outsiders are dealing with, and you can never understand why you lose...
Your screen name says it all.
Fortunately, most of us WOMEN do not determine leadership qualities based on gender or simply based on women who indulge in similar activities as we do.
Yes I HUNT TOO and I am a big supporter of the second amendment, SO WHAT? Does that automatically confer me with the right to lead our great country.
We are mothers too BUT we want a leader who understands what we do, who we are and the aspirations we have for ourselves and our children.
We are looking for LEADERS not political smoke screens used as candidates. AND most of us are enraged by the continuing misrepresentation of our views in these so called POLLS! *hurl*
We are not STUPID. We see what is going on and we DEMAND BETTER:
Falling wages, job losses, soaring gas prices, huge gains by the oil sector and the total lack of financial growth within the middle class! WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR OUR CHILDREN? IN THIS MESS and you expect that we side with Palin who has only left the country once and ruled over a HAMLET?
Our country is ensconced within a dire quagmire and the call should be for a DRASTIC CHANGE...
Sarah Palin and these carefully orchestrated and distracting GENDER WARS ARE IRRELEVANT!
Women are not robots and the days when we followed what we were ordered to do by our menfolk is long gone. Did you get the memo?????
Anyone who would give the Republicans who have driven this nation to ruin and promise to stay on the same destructive path is beyond stupid. Self destructive is a more apt description. We have lost over 600,000 jobs this year. The economy is in the tank and shows no sign of recovering. Life on our planet is at a tipping point. The Oil Companies are our abusive pimps that we keep granting tax subsidies. We are involved in two wars draining our resources and killing our soldiers. Yet McCain-Palin promise more wars,more driling, more death, less jobs and more tax cuts for the rich while not giving the middle-class crap.
Any woman who would vote for that ticket just because Sarah Palin shares the same plumbing isn't just stupid, they are flaming idiots.
All I know is that all the women I know are now all fired up to vote for Obama.
So we'll see.
A woman with a strong unquestionable background of executive experience would be totally out of the question on a republican ticket. Even on the campaign trail, they are keeping her at home, I wonder if she is baking brownies for the Big Boys? If she is such a super woman and she CAN juggle it all, why doesn't she put her Big Girl panties on, get out there, and answer some questions. She can field dress a moose but she can't meet the press? Give me a break.