Conservative Women – Feminists, No Not That Kind of Feminists
September 3, 2008We’re the good feminists who like men, too. Like the man I often disagree with but agree with in this instance, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, H/T Politico:
From Ron Fournier’s analysis: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani toted his feminist talking points around to no fewer than five morning TV interviews.
“The scrutiny you are giving her is so darn unfair. It is really indecent,” he told MSNBC’s morning crew. “She is being asked questions like, can you, as a mother … be vice president? Whoever asked a man?”
I am concerned for the Obama, Biden and McCain families, after all they’re ~unfairly putting their kids in the spotlight~ and ~neglecting their kiddos~. Oh wait, they are FAMILIES, which means if Mommy wants to have a career then a family can still stick together and raise some great kids.
But don’t forget what Tom Delay said:
DeLay, speaking on a Politico/Yahoo/Pioneer Press panel in St. Paul on Wednesday morning, said the tough coverage has done something for McCain that the maverick could never do with his own party.
“The media has done more for John McCain in the last two days than he’s done for himself in the last year and a half,” DeLay said.
“Trashing her is waking up the sleeping giant, and the sleeping giant is Republican women,” he claimed.
Preach it, sista, erm…Delay.
And in case you missed it, Michelle Malkin’s good read this week: the Four Stages of Conservative Female Abuse.
The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. MSNBC hosts insulted former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant, and Jeff Danziger caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot, and Bush “House Nigga” armed with “hair straightener.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former GOP Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for applying “her makeup with a trowel.”
Read the rest here.
Good conservative women. God bless all of you. Please explain to me what good conservative woman would intentionaly expose her teenage daughter to the national media and public scrutiny for the sake of her own polictical ambition.I too had a seventeen year old daughter who was pregnant and know what a difficult time it was for her. I could not imagine violating her privacy for my own personal gain. In my opinion she does not have strong family values but instead strong political ambitions. I expect more from my GOP family and therefore after much soul searching have decided to vote Democratic this election
Marryanne, thanks for leaving me a comment. I want to throw it back at the media and the Left for putting Bristol in the public spotlight. This story could’ve been uncovered or put to rest quickly but instead the media soaked up the rumor mill and spread horrible smears against the Palins.
As Christians we make mistakes and ask for forgiveness and pray that things will turn out for the best.
Sarah Palin didn’t throw her daughter in the spotlight and the question is never thrown back at the people who did – the gossip rags, the leftist blogs and the liberal media, who have said some really disgusting things about this 17 year old girl.
Remember that Sarah wasn’t born into wealth, politics or any of that. She didn’t go to an Ivy League school and she isn’t part of the elite.
Sarah Palin better represents family values than Obama who claims a pregnancy like this is a punishment.
She’s human and so is Bristol and I appreciate that from her.
Thanks again for your comment, I hope that as time progresses you’ll sway back to the GOP and not let this story turn you away from such a good ticket.
Meh, I have a feeling that she was never going to vote Republican in the first place.
And, my friend Maryanne (walking away, ohhh, more than a feeling…) Sorry, I get caught up in Boston songs. Anyways, my friend Maryanne, you do have to remember that it was leftist media who thrust Bristol into the spotlight. Undoubtedly, Palin tried to protect her daughter from this, but a group of no platform hacks who felt their election slipping and had no way of actually running against Palin decided to start smearing her and her family with blatant dishonesty.
If you want to point fingers at someone here, you might want to start looking toward the daily kos and the likes, of course, I’m sure you already know they’re there.
Anywho, great post.