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Stephanie Schriock

Stephanie Schriock

Posted: July 9, 2010 04:46 PM

To say I was unmoved by Sarah Palin's much-heralded new "Mama Grizzlies" video is an understatement. I think it's time to get the story of the 2010 elections straight -- and to call out Palin's efforts for what they are: an attempt, in the name of "feminism," to turn back the clock on women's rights and to set American families back.

But I will say something you probably never thought you'd hear: I agree with Sarah Palin on one thing. I agree with her that women -- moms, yes, but grandmothers, too, and daughters -- will decide this election.

In 2008, it was the turnout among women that helped propel President Obama to victory in North Carolina -- along with the historic election of two women statewide, Governor Bev Perdue and Senator Kay Hagan.

In 1994, when 16 million women stayed home from the polls, Democrats lost critical seats -- and gave rise to the anti-woman, anti-family policies of Gingrich, DeLay, and Boehner's Contract With America. No question about it -- women's votes matter.

Where Palin and I see the world differently, though, is the faith and respect for women's judgment that I have. Apparently, she hopes that a sentimental video full of images of herself will be enough to make women rise up and support the team of backwards-looking, radical Republican women running this cycle -- from Michele Bachmann, who called the president an extortionist, to Carly Fiorina, who laid off almost 30,000 workers and says job creation will not be her responsibility as a Senator, to Sharron Angle, who wants adolescent victims of rape and incest to "make lemonade out of lemons."

I think women voters will choose progress, not Palin, this cycle. And I think that women will turn out -- because women know what problems look like, and who problem solvers are. They want the Alex Sinks of the world, taking on BP -- not Michele Bachmann defending BP. They want Mary Jo Kilroy, working hard to complete financial regulatory reform that protects families -- not Carly Fiorina who set families adrift when she outsourced jobs. They want Barbara Boxer, protecting women's rights, not Angle, Susana Martinez, Bachmann and all, who pledge to roll back our rights.

I look forward to a cycle focused on women voters and on issues that matter to them, and I am confident our strong women will prevail.

Stephanie Schriock is the President of EMILY's List

 
 
 
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12:57 PM on 08/11/2010
MomsRising.org connected with moms and the people who love them about issues important to families with strong, focused advocacy and real policy positions long before Palin decided to release a video about some vague cartoon of motherhood.
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ocenbrz
Atheist by choice.
03:43 PM on 07/29/2010
Palin exists as something to fill in blank airspace. We can give her some credit though? She is getting more women to vote? Against anything she has to say. She is the poster girl of everything we have spent years fighting against. The card board, stepford wife, image many men tried to write for us. "We have come a long way baby"! So for this reason alone, thank you Sarah, for reminding me regularly why it is important that I vote against all of the issues you are being paid to bring up.

Men will do anything to distract we woman from what is important in this life. Creating a kinder, more gentle, yet effective and responsible world. We women are often a child's first teacher. We should be shaping the world and not giving up our responsibility to men who are easily distracted by their body parts. ;) Sure, we have PMS and menopause. That is why a more perfect union to me means a balance between men and woman. Including all races of people from different backgrounds.

I'm still waiting for my Department of Peace. :) We can make it happen.
07:39 AM on 07/28/2010
I've never understood why a woman would vote for Palin anyway. She's an embarrassment to women who can actually think.

The minute she talked about Russian planes flying into US airspace in Alaska, I knew I had run across smarter rocks than she was. As governor of Alaska, one would think she would know about that huge, huge AFB there and, the sole responsibity of which is to monitor every single flight in and out of Russia all those pilots living on it, whose sole job is to patrol that "fail safe" line between US/Russian air space 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

I guarantee you, if ANY Russian plane of ANY size or type, had made it across that "line" it would have been worldwide news. For Sarah the Silly to not have been able to deduce that should tell anyone all they need to know about her IQ.

We've already had a president recently whose IQ seemed to be less than that of his belt size; we don't need another.
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Mover
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01:22 PM on 07/15/2010
"not Michele Bachmann defending BP"

That's a blatant mischaracterization.

On CNN, "she argued, she was defending the greater free market from the big government tendencies of the Obama administration."

Which is exactly right. We need protection from Obama and his minions.

The Obama administration is the new destroyer of jobs. And the sad part is they do not even seem to realize what they are doing. (I hope they don't realize it as the only other option he is knowing destroying jobs).

It's time to face facts. SInce Obama won the election he and the Democrats in the US Congress have shed 4,000,000 jobs, and he continues to destroy the economy.

Going back a few months, he orchestrated the GM bankruptcy, ordering GM to lose a hundred thousand employees as a condition of reorganization. He allowed banks that he gave hundreds of billions to stop lending money to small businesses and allowed them to take people's homes to cover their own loses instead of refinancing their homes. This is only a partial list of his atrocities.

The Obama administration is now working overtime to end tens of thousands of jobs in the Gulf states. A moratorium on drilling and unreasonable delays in stopping the bleeding into the Gulf causing area businesses to fail because he wants it that way,

But keep focusing on your hate for Sarah Palin, although I doubt your hate will help you.
03:22 PM on 07/14/2010
Fluff piece or the way you want the world to be.

Nope, The American Tea Party Movement is alive and well and is going to take the country back.
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warriorwoman73
07:20 PM on 07/15/2010
How are they going to do that? Do tell. No one from the "American Tea Party Movement" has been even able to articulate a plan yet. All they've done thus far is shoot their mouths off, which I hate to inform you is not going to be sufficient to "take the country back". (Back from whom, anyway?)
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Mover
Father, Husband, Ret 1SG
07:21 AM on 07/16/2010
There are several Republican candidates who were supported by the Tea Party and beat out the establishment GOP candidate. That is a good thing.

Purpose of the Tea Party with links to real information.

http://www.philateapartypatriots.com/HealthCare.html
http://www.heritage.org/Initiatives/Health-Care
http://www.philateapartypatriots.com/Energy---Environment.html
http://www.heritage.org/Initiatives/Energy-and-Environment
http://www.philateapartypatriots.com/Entitlements.html
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/contents

I hope this helps.

"(Back from whom, anyway?) "

Take it back from the those who are ruining this country, i.e., President Obama and his radical minions.
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Tony12345
02:02 PM on 07/14/2010
How reassuring... A story from the President of Emily's List, an organisation that thrives on the thrill of slaughtering unborn children... What next? An article from someone heading up an organisation committed to killing off old people who are no longer wanted?
07:47 AM on 07/28/2010
How stupid! There is NO organization that "thrives on the thrill of slaughtering unborn children".
Let me guess...you think you're a Christian, right? Well, no.

GOD gave people the right to make choices. You apparently think you're greater than God and should be able to take away what he's given. We all have the right to make choices, and even when a choice may be the wrong one, we still have the right to make it.

You know, using force of any kind - physical or legal - to make a woman have something done to her body she doesn't want is rape. Apparently that's okay with you.
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Teresa Eckerman-Pfeil
09:24 AM on 07/13/2010
Sharron Angle is the Choice Candidate in the race. Tea-party, Kool-Aid or Lemon-aid. Here's a picture to represent her policies.
http://therightissowrong.blogspot.com/2010/07/sharron-angle-choice-candidate.html
09:29 PM on 07/12/2010
What if................Hillary ran for congress as an independent, in Calif, to replace Pelosi, was then elected to be Speaker of the House, and on the first day in office entered articles of impeachment for both Obama and Biden.

Could that be a fast track to POTUS without waiting til 2012?
03:25 PM on 07/14/2010
What bothers me is that only now, 2 years later,
is the widespread and blatant voter fraud coming forth (with evidence and dozens of witnesses) how Obama stole the primary from Clinton.

So when Clinton reported the TX fraud, where was the news media in 2008?
They ignored the widespread voter fraud and intimidation to get Obama elected.

Swizard101: From your lips to G-d's ear~!
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warriorwoman73
07:23 PM on 07/15/2010
What in God's name are you blathering about? Try making some sense.
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Mover
Father, Husband, Ret 1SG
12:22 PM on 07/20/2010
A nice dream, but the loony tunes in SF like their mush-brained grandma too much. Hilary wouldn't have a chance unless she announced that she was gay. And it doesn't matter that she isn't. Leftists believe whatever their elite tells them and everyone else are divisive racist backwoods toothless homophobes who don't matter anyway.
03:24 PM on 07/12/2010
I wouldn't bet the farm on that one. Plenty of women think St. Sarah is just the woman we need in government. If you think only men voted for her (or Michelle Bachmann) last time around, you're in for a rude awakening. Phyllis Schlafly is still very popular, There are plenty of conservative women out there who would vote for Palin in a heartbeat. The Republican party may not be growing, but it isn't going away. Convervatives didn't just quit being conservatives because they're in the political minority.
02:21 PM on 07/12/2010
But she has such *Common Sense* solutions. Haven't heard exactly what they indeed ARE but heard it (*Common Sense*) AGAIN on that video this weekend. LOL

I like to think American female voters are smarter than that, I know they are.
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Mover
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01:44 PM on 07/15/2010
"Smart" isn't the issue. Knowledge is the issue. American women voters are plenty smart, but it seems quite a few are listening to people who are telling them how to feel, but do not include any facts to back up their feelings. In the case of Sarah Palin, what has she done that will set feminism back? Oh, she chose life for her child. How awful is that? . Then she preaches personal responsibility and individual freedom! Who does she think she is?
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02:09 PM on 07/12/2010
Women are smarter than that. So Palin won't be President. Ever.
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01:57 PM on 07/14/2010
Yes!!! We proved it by not voting her in as Vice Pres. I wonder if she ever thinks about why they lost?
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jennysez
12:02 PM on 07/12/2010
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

It will be a sad commentary on our society if a person with as little intellectual depth and mastery of English grammar as a 4th grader, who tanked as a presidential running mate, quit as governor halfway through their first term, "wrote" a book in which every person in it not related to the author says that its full of lies, and takes every opportunity to tell me that I am not a "real" American, is able to launch a serious presidential bid with facebook posts and tweets.

Politics is not for amateurs, maneuvering bills through the legislative process isn't for those who are in the featherweight division of a Jeopardy tournament. Any impact this woman would have on society would be devastating if she ever moved from social networking platforms and into an arena where her words and actions would actually carry consequences.

Keep you're pink elephants and PMSing bears videos, I'll stick with rational people willing to work towards bettering the country's problem instead of filling it with shrill divisiveness and casting about for scapegoats. Stick to Fox, sweetheart, you've got their shtick down pat.

And Thank Ms. Schriock for all your work with Emily's List!
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Mover
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01:57 PM on 07/15/2010
"Politics is not for amateurs"

You may believe this, but actually it is for amateurs. At least that is what the founders believed and that is the way the government is setup to run. Even today, it has not changed in the US Constitution and the laws.

The only thing that has changed is the ability of special interests to morph public policy into a feelings based mishmash of nonsensical lawyer-speak.

"...takes every opportunity to tell me that I am not a "real" American".

When did she do that? DI you confront her at a town hall meeting? Bump into her in a restaurant?

Oh, wait, wait. I see. You were told that she said bad things about you and you swallowed it. OK. I understand now. Carry on.
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jennysez
02:13 PM on 07/15/2010
10/17/08 Greensboro, NC

"We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation." -Sarah Palin
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warriorwoman73
07:24 PM on 07/15/2010
Ha ha...in your face Mover!
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kellym33
11:17 AM on 07/12/2010
I think it is painfully obvious what Sarah Palin is all about. Sarah Palin. How any intelligent person, male or female, could be fooled by this joke of a woman is beyond me.
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Mover
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01:58 PM on 07/15/2010
Hate is a powerful motivator. Maybe you should try yoga or some yogurt?
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kellym33
02:51 PM on 07/15/2010
You are right about one thing, hate is a very powerful motivator. And so is fear. Sarah Palin embodies both and she sure is motivated to spread it all over the country.
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warriorwoman73
07:25 PM on 07/15/2010
She didn't say anything about hate. Maybe you should try reading glasses or go see a neurologist?
10:57 AM on 07/12/2010
Watching the video I asked myself on important question: Why were there no women of color?
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webwriter
12:00 PM on 07/12/2010
Because in Palin's world there are no people of color.
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Mover
Father, Husband, Ret 1SG
01:59 PM on 07/15/2010
Because it was recorded by a member of the legacy media?
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rich3324
Likes: Chasing villagers. Dislikes: Fire
09:51 AM on 07/12/2010
If palin twitted and no one read it, would it still be stupid?
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outsidethemainstream
01:22 PM on 07/12/2010
Thanks for brightening my day.

fanned & faved.
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01:58 PM on 07/14/2010
I love you.