Posted on 09/07/2008 3:16:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I once made a bet that Canada and the United States would see a woman or a black in the top political job from the political right (the Conservative party and the Republicans respectively) before the centre-left succeeded in that feat.
My reasoning was simple though counter-intuitive: Despite the popular view that right-of-centre parties are anti-women or anti-minority, they are nothing of the sort. They are pro-individual and pro-merit. So they oppose race and gender quotas because they see such policies as harmful to individuals (i.e.: if you don't belong to the "proper" group); such policies also interfere with normal incentives and rewards in education and in the workplace. That position is then portrayed by partisan opponents and glib pundits, incorrectly but opportunistically, as anti-female and anti-minority.
But for most people, at least outside of the American south, it is the ideology that is the problem, not the skin colour or gender.
Problematically for left or centre-left parties, the gender or minority activists tend to be drawn from the more left-wing and radical sides of those parties and their policies reflect that: Barack Obama's positions on unions, taxes, and affirmative action, for example. But mainstream voters dislike much of the policy package, which is why Obama might lose and why Hillary Clinton spent years moving to the middle and downplaying her left-wing past.
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The hags and bitches of NOW and their running-dogs (like Eleanor Clift) don’t care about women. They care about left-wing ideology.
And they care about consequence-free sex.
As if they’re getting any these days (and hand-held mechanical devices don’t count).
RaaaaWWWWWWr!! FFFFFFtt!!
Hand-held? I think some of these NOW broads have kick-start models.
I haven’t been around for a while. I’m glad to see you’re still being-
How does the snotty elitist say ? “ this ( the old world of Liberalism, MSM, DEMS, Radical/Fascist/Liberal Feminism ) is so yesterday. “
LOL.
HUH???
Thanks!
Start browsing for nursing homes.
An amazingly bigoted statement.
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When do we get the pic of Air Force 1 wearing moose horns? Seems I remember "Registered" did the cowboy version for GW Bush.
Demonrats are the party of victimhood and entitlement. The Demonrats are nothing but frauds and their ‘women’s rights’ and ‘minority rights’, affirmative action crowd show it time and again. Palin is just the latest example. Governor Palin is a strong woman and a true role model.
Memo to younger conservative women who want to succeed in politics: Don't worry about the old boys' club. They're milk-drinking pussycats. It's the fired-up tigers in the old girls' club with whom you'll have to battle.
No kidding. Irony alert: These same old battle-axes who have never progressed beyond what they upheld 40 years ago are the same battle-axes who demand that traditional churches "progress" and morph by changing scripture and canon laws of orthodox churches.
The traditional cult of the battleaxes is not progressive; but espouse progressiveness in everyone, every institute they deem as not adhering to the Cult of Battleaxism.
I used to call them "Harpies" and because they were women who wilfully self-imposed themselves into a coffin, while they screech, "let me out! Let me out".
The wails of their self-imposed hop onto the Hindu funeral pyre still darkens and pollutes the air we breathe. And, as witnessed so clearly in their comments regarding a sister, Sarah Palin.
What they are avoiding, very tendaciously, calling Sarah is a "Token Woman". Why, that would lead many to calling Obama a "token Black" which is, in fact, what the scuttlebutt on the ground has it among classic Democrat voters.
Libs demanded a world of Whirled Peas; they got their wish.
I'm glad that Gov Palin's nomination and the surrounding moaning from the left is being noticed by more and more people. As you said, the Libs ARE all about victims. They need victims to have power, so much like their agenda of keeping people on welfare, here they talk out of both sides of their mouths to try to keep Palin down so she doesn't touch that glass ceiling.
2VD just want to let you know I think John McCain is simply brilliant for picking Palin as VP. It gives me hope he’ll at least show he’s willing to govern conservatively. I just wish he wouldn’t lump Republicans in with dems when talking about working for “no party.” It doesn’t sit well and once again he showing his propensity to “maverickate” on conservatives.
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