So very true!
Posted on 09/02/2008 3:28:07 PM PDT by wagglebee
LifeNews.com Note: Maria Vitale is an editorial opinion columnist for LifeNews.com.
Back in 1984, I was a college student excited about casting my first vote in a Presidential election. I was doing an internship in the Governor’s Mansion in Ohio, which allowed me the opportunity to attend an event featuring then Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
Someone I knew from the Governor’s office ushered my Dad and me up to the front of a receiving line, and I had the chance to shake hands with candidate Ferraro. As soon as it happened, I turned around and hugged my Dad.
I was excited because this was the first woman to be on a major party Presidential ticket. I felt as if a new world were opening up for women.
But there was a problem. Even though Geraldine was Catholic like me and Italian like me, she was also pro-abortion.
At the time, I really didn’t understand what impact a Vice-President or President could have on abortion. I was very naпve, and thought that the key to resolving the abortion issue was nowhere to be found in politics. I ended up having a heated debate with my aunt over the issue of Ferraro’s support of abortion, which caused my aunt to run crying from the room.
It wasn’t until much later, after I had joined the pro-life movement, that I saw the folly of supporting a pro-abortion Presidential ticket. I purposely refused to join a group which promoted women for public office when I found out that the group only supported pro-abortion candidates.
In the years since, because of my pro-life convictions, I have been faithfully voting for the pro-life candidate for President. But I think that, deep in my heart, I had given up on the dream that a woman who shared my pro-life views would one day occupy a place in the Oval Office.
With John McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice-President, I feel a new sense of optimism. I now believe that anything is possible—including a pro-life Madame President.
For me, hope has once more re-emerged in politics, not from the author of the Audacity of Hope, but from a man old enough to be my father. John McCain has shown great wisdom and courage in placing a pro-life mother of five on his ticket.
I think Sarah Palin is the woman I’ve been waiting for. For women of my generation, I think she represents a political dream come true—evidence that good things still do happen in the political world.
Sarah is not only shattering a glass ceiling—she may also be the one that really makes Roe crumble. And that’s real change we can believe in.
So very true!
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Yup! The pro life youth of America have a new champion and her name is Sarah.
Isn't it exciting? The real Hope and Change is on our side, now.
I start like her more and more
I got relatives up in Alaska Wagglebee they like her too she walk the walk talk the talk
bttt
Love you Sarah..
Are they kidding asking if you can handle the job and motherhood.....Woman do this everyday. Juggle 8 things at once....obviously asked by a man, whose wife is probably at work after taking care of the children...Oh ya! that question....Yah its offensive!
Agreed. I admire Governor Palin very much. But one woman is not the savior of the pro-life cause, the conservative movement or the Republican Party. We need MANY like her, of both sexes. And she wouldn't have done it without the good man who's been with her since high school. Kudos to Mr. Palin! : )
So why the f**K did Palin skip the Phyllis Schlafly luncheon today in her honor??? Stupid!
NOTHING matters as much right now as for Governor Palin to give a good-to-great speech tomorrow night. She is fully justified in sequestering herself to concentrate on her speech..... or would you prefer that she do the daily events of the RNC and then blow her speech? I realize this was a very special event, but she committed before she was nominated for VP, and I think anyone who truly supports her will understand that the priority right now is her acceptance speech.
There is too much riding on this damn speech. She should not have to use the speech to defend herself against all this shit. She should have addressed this nonsense today. And then make her speech as she wanted it to be.
maybe - certainly a judgment call - but I think that anything she says tomorrow night in prime time will have far more impact than anything she could have said today at a luncheon that would only get a sound-bite or two at best....
But I do hate to have soooooo much riding on one speech too. It’s true for both Palin’s and McCain’s acceptance speeches — they cannot afford any stumble. A Democrat nominee could screw up and the media would go easy — they’d report it but they would not go in for the kill (not for the person who is already the nominee, as compared with Howard Dean — in that case they decided there was still time to dump him fast).
Palin and McCain both have to be very strong in their speeches or else the MSM will really damage them (hell, the MSM will try to damage them anyway, but any flaws will be grossly exaggerated). Any slip by Palin and the long knives will be wielded. Any slip by McCain and it will be “he’s too old” etc. There is a lot riding on both speeches.
“Sarah is not only shattering a glass ceiling—she may also be the one that really makes Roe crumble. And that’s real change we can believe in.”
Make Roe crumble? I think that’s an exaggeration. Roe v Wade is going to continue regardless of the President or V.P. elected. There simply isn’t a political consensus toward ending it.
As I’ve noted several times in the past, I don’t think the solution to ending infanticide is going to be found in partisan politics. Legalized infanticide will end in the U.S. Of that I’m relatively certain. It will end about 3 months after the last “clinic” closes for lack of business.
Can she sincerely make abundantly clear that she recognizes that people who have had or been involved with abortions in the past, but recognize the error of their ways, are not evil? If she can do that in such a way that people accept her message, there will be a sea change. Without such a message (spread by her or someone else) there won't be.
I agree that the end of RvW will have to be social rather than political. I have no idea whether Mrs. Palin will find the right message to trigger the sea change.
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