Posted on 09/09/2008 5:13:41 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
An Open Letter to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents
by DONEDems.com
September 6, 2008
To whom it may concern:
We, as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton, are alarmed by the vile denigration of Sarah Palin and her family by unsavory elements of the media glitterati and the fringe left. These sensationalist bigots attack Gov. Palin’s motherhood, insinuating that she cannot achieve what male Vice-Presidents have done for decades in balancing family life and executive duty. We wonder why this has never been asked of John McCain, father of seven; Barack Obama, father of two; nor of Joe Biden, who began his Senate career as a widowed father of two.
Sexism from the chattering classes diminishes Gov. Palin’s successful gubernatorial experience, ignoring her credentials as an executive who managed a $10million budget and her record as a reformer who fought the good-ole-boys in her own party and won. We wonder where the outrage was when John Edwards – a one-term Senator with no foreign policy credentials or executive experience – ran for Vice-President and President. We wonder also why the media does not question the inexperienced Obama – who has spent his single Senate term running for President.
We stop our wondering when we note that Gov. Palin is a woman while these others are men.
Moreover, the use of Gov. Palin’s special-needs child and pregnant daughter as bludgeons to diminish their mother horrifies us. Ham-handed schlock artists in the press – prominent among them NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, CNN’s Campbell Brown, herself the unapologetic working mother of an infant child, and the New York Times’s sewage spewing Maureen Dowd – are practitioners of the most loathsome kind of ‘journalism’ imaginable. Their juvenile, sexist political analysis belongs in the gutter or in a boys bathroom stall – not in mainstream discourse.
The hateful treatment of Gov. Palin proves that the liberal establishment has learned nothing from our much-publicized journey with Sen. Clinton. We are upset that continued abuse of female candidates leaves us in the unenviable position of rallying around one who holds many views antithetical to our own. But whether the candidate in question is progressive or regressive, we are unable to tolerate sexist attacks which turn our stomachs and cheapen the discourse.
We challenge politicians to stand with male and female Hillary Democrats as they failed to do during the primary season. Democrats and Republicans must unequivocally assert that attacks on any woman candidate focused on gender and not on her record must immediately cease. They must reject and denounce sexist rumor mills like the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and any other smear monger in the press.
We will be watching closely over the next two months. Our pleas for decency cannot be met with just more silence. We urge that sexist attacks against Gov. Palin be shut down forthwith – removing the politics of identity, grievance, and prejudice and allowing all to refocus on ideas, qualifications, and character.
Otherwise, if need be, we are prepared to use the ballot box to make a final statement against hatred of women.
We are saddened that it has come to this.
UNDERSIGNED by
DONEDems.com
It gets worse, visit this website and read its contents. Sent the link to Rush and drudge.
Done, from the Republican side at least. We've rejected those leftist hate sites since inception.
I think the PUMAs know all this "gender hostility" is coming from the dems. From browsing some of their sites, they are very angry at the Obambi, and Gov. Palin's nomination has given them a reason to abandon the dem party en masse.
I know that God does not wish anyone to go to hell. But sometimes I cannot help wishing that end for the kind of people who came up with that website.
I must agree with you. On the one hand I don’t want people to see this but at the same time people need to see the type of low life scum that are on the left.
I’m getting a 404. Did you screencap it?
they had abandoned bambi already,this has been going on some June.
They must have pulled the site down, and no I didn’t. I’m at work and can’t do that on my computer.
The host website, WordPress, must have shut it down.
I believe that budget amount is $10 billion. Our small county has a $145 million budget, so I know the state of Alaska’s is bigger. http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/bills/09_fiscal_summary_conf_committee_less_vetoes_9-5-08.pdf
That has some really nasty language. You might want to hit abuse yourself.
Don’t post that crap again.
I posted the webpage, as best I could. Now all can see what kind of people we are dealing with.
For some reason, the pictures turned out to be red x’s.
Thank God! I’d have a hard time coming to terms that America has swayed so far to the left as to elect a socialist as it’s leader.
Sorry.
I didn’t read the page before posting.
An immature moron with no decency? We kinda got the idea. ;-)
In all honesty it has to be someone young who sneers at everything.
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