Posted on 10/14/2009 6:20:54 AM PDT by steve-b
As the Republican Party continues its pilgrimage through the desert, its leaders may be missing the oasis for the vale of tears.
The answer to the party's woes isn't a revamped Web site (GOP.com) offering -- wowser! -- really cool social networking platforms.
The answer won't be found in the sudden realization that 83 percent of young people 18 to 24 have an online profile -- or other late-breaking revelations that merely reinforce the perception of the GOP as woefully behind the curve.
The answer is . . . drum roll, please . . . women.
If the GOP is really serious about expanding the party, it's time for the men to hush and let the pros take over. As the saying goes: If you need something done, hire a busy woman. Or, as the White House Project puts it: "Add women, change everything."
In the past few months, several conservative women have emerged as candidates and critics to challenge the notion that the GOP is the party of men. They're also putting to rest any thought that Sarah Palin is the female face of the party.
The McCain campaign had the right idea; it just picked the wrong woman....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Ha, ha, ha! Nice timing, Parker! Right after a liberal woman, Olympia Snowejob (RINO-Maine), just sold out the GOP.
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina are both elitist jokes, like Arnold. Especially disgusting is Whitman, who couldn’t identify Van Jones as a communist.
These people are not conservative in world view; the are co-opters meant to further leftist ideology, issue by issue.
“I’ll run it better” should be replaced with “Tear down these walls!”
The liberal Democratic party press, including the Washington post, gives “helpful advice” to conservative Republicans. The advice is to be more liberal. They say close the “gender gap.” The gender gap, as they consider it, is that Republicans are not liberal enough to get their share of the women’s vote. They never mention the other gender gap: Democrats are not conservative enough to get their share of the men’s vote.
In this case, the Dems are correct for once. Fiorina wrought major havoc at H-P. Meanwhile, Palin had a highly successful tenure as governor of Alaska. But to the nitwit Parker, Fiorina is more qualified. Telling.
Uh, actually if the GOP wants to return to prominence, they would be better served to push some strong MEN to the forefront, and tell the weak-minded, mush-headed, Oprah-influenced emotional women to step aside. Seriously, the “men” currently out front in the GOP are the biggest bunch of wusses I have ever seen. They have all caved under the constant anti-male pressure and influence coming from the mainstream media and culture. As women have had more influence in America, the country has slipped further and further.
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/limbaugh_palin_book/2009/09/29/266306.html?s=al&promo_code=8ABA-1
Witness the foul stench of identity politics wafting from Kathleen Parker.
Accepting the liberal premise of “we need more women” is what got us Obama.
Merit and achievement are what we conservatives recognize, not one’s gender or race.
You are so right — they should push manly men. The women’s movement is SO over; we are NOT the ‘next worthy minority’ to be pushed forward. The Dems cannot entice manly men, and we conservatives really have them all to ourselves.
Meg Whitman loves Van Jones.
I always enjoy reading Kathleen Parker. I know her best work is when she takes a mocking tone but this article was just dimwitted at best.
Does Parker really believe Meg Whitman has a snow balls chance in Hades of winning the governor’s seat in California?????? Honestly????? That’s dumb on top of dumb. Besides, Whitman’s running the kind of campaign that would make a dead man say “Wake me when it gets good.”
Meg McCain is also a fun little lady to read about. She’s, like, really energetic, like. And, like, she knows what the, like, pulse of the people really is, you know.
Kathleen Parker knows Meg McCain is a media creation. Who wouldn’t know? Even liberal republicans realize that Meg’s following is on tweeter and it’s populated with people who are in their early 20’s and, as of now, aren’t reliable voters for either party.
If Kathleen Parker thinks she can infuriate conservative republicans by poking Meg McCain in their eye, she needs to reevaluate her position because most of us are bored with Meg McCain. The reason we’re bored with Meg McCain is that little Meg is very vapid, like, you know, right.
Steve-B forgot to put the barf alert in the header. Would someone here please help him do this, I’m sure he meant to but just didn’t know how. Hey, maybe it’s hard to locate the barf alert? I’ll have to post an article myself and see how it works.
We hear over and over that the GOP can't recapture power until they reach out to this minority or that minority or this special interest etc. Similarly we are told that so long as the conservatives remain a predominently white middle-age male movement we will stay on the sidelines.
This POV encourages us to "change" our message to be more inclusive; to reach out to the various and sundry demographics in order to expand our base.
This POV is poison.
Our goal is a republic that represents all and protects the liberty of all. Our movement includes women, blacks, hispanics, Indians (both kinds) asians, etc. Our movement includes evryone that understands an encroaching gov. will destroy America.
Its the liberal that can't see people, but rather they want to pigeon hole everyone into a tribe, ie you're not an American; you're a Latina, or a gay man, or a senior or a.... fill in your own tribe.
We must reject this faulty logic at its outset. I like Sarah Palin, not because she's a womam and not in spite of fact that she's a woman, I like Sarah because of her ideas and ideals. Likewise w/ Drs Williams and Sowell and too many others, from every tribe on the planet, to name.
Each of us has a tribe that we dearly love but the mark of a civilized "person" is to see beyond our own narrow interests and to understand where true wisdom lies.
Ev, you don’t have to tell me about Sarah Palin, she already has my vote because I know for certain that there is no genuine conservative man that will step into the spotlight and take over this party. Palin has more guts and ‘cubes’ than any of those lightweight pussies like Romney, McCain, Cantor, Demint (yes, him too, he’s just another do-nothing puss), Grassley, Hatch, Boehner, all of them. Not a man in the bunch, anywhere. My only hope is that Palin embarrasses many of these wusses into growing a set of balls.
Oh, come on, women have more important things to do that go wallowing in politics with the pigs.
Or have we forgotten that? And does that explain why we’re in the mess we’re in?
Sarah. Recoil at the name, Kathleen, because she is your worst nightmare and our best hope.
I don’t think they HAVE any STONG MEN!
I have often remarked that this country required a serious wake-up call from its periodic idiotic dalliances with leftist “leaders” and suggested that we needed a dedicated Marxist in the White House to rub our noses in the REAL DEAL. We got one with Obama and he may prove to be the best thing that ever happened to the cause of freedom here.
While making that suggestion, my fingers were crossed. On one hand, I feared that the majority of modern-day, government schooled folk and welfare leeches would come to embrace Marxist philosophy and practice and America — the IDEA — would come to an end. On the other hand, I held out hope that my fellow citizens would reject this alien ideology and rebel in a demonstrable way. I thank God that the latter is happening as I write this. The anger and outrage are palpable to even the hard-core leftists now infesting the White House. Barring some catastrophe — which malignant Machiavellians like Rahm “A crisis is too good to waste” Emanuel are fully capable of orchestrating — they will be shown the gate at the next election.
But what has puzzled me most through the run-up to this point (with some notable exceptions of which Georgia’s Dr. Broun and Dr. Price are but two) – is this: WHERE ARE THE PRINCIPLED MEN — REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE — WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN STANDING UP TO THIS GUY?? In order that they might avoid the tough questions inherent in governing this nation, have they shipped so much of THEIR power down Pennsylvania Avenue that they are now AFRAID to reclaim it? Why has it fallen to Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Rep. Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Rush, Boortz and a handful of others – in Washington and without — to do the job of those we elected to office – and swore an oath — to guard the Constitution from “...all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC?” They have largely been MIA!
And, while they have been missing, Obama has appointed more czars than the Russians had through their entire history. I asked Chambliss and Isakson (REPUBLICANS from Georgia) if they were just a tad worried that Obama was forming a politbureau here to replace THEM. I’m still waiting for a response that makes sense.
And one final thought as we look forward to replacing the Marxist-n-Thief come 2012: What sort of people have we elected when a small, attractive mother from Alaska named Sarah has BIGGER CAJONES than the alleged MEN now warming seats and wasting expensive space on that hill at the eastern end of Pennsylvania Avenue?
I’m just asking the question we all should be asking.
Have YOU asked the question?
In the last year, someone must have slipped Kathleen Parker a political, liberal mickey.
She doesn’t make sense anymore.
Her columns are like someone banging a gong every five minutes: Loud and annoying.
Geesh.
If that is the case, they are committing suicide. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are among many conservative women in this country. Women will support conservative women.
Liberals would have us all think that there are few conservative women in America. They try to do the same thing with black people. The fact is that many women and blacks are conservative, perhaps the majority in each case. But many think they are alone in their conservatism and lose their voice.
Americans need to see more conservative women and blacks, if conservatism is to become mainstream. The liberal press knows this and tries to kill off the influence of any conservative woman or conservative black person. If Kathleen Parker considers herself conservative, she is betraying her cause with this article.
Perhaps the politics of personal destruction was first practiced on Senator Joseph McCarthy. But the tool is still available. It has been used or attempted against Richard Nixon, John Ashcroft, George Allen, and now Sarah Palin. The only personal destruction that is more complete is actual assasination. What would be the impact of a President who was anti-communist? For example John Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan. What would be the impact of a President who was firmly pro-Israel? For example, Robert Kennedy.
The bottom line is, genuinely strong American men don’t get into politics for the most part, they have real jobs. Politics requires selling out, compromising with vermin, being a phony, being a weasel behind closed doors, having a makeup coordinator, and whoring yourself out for contribution money. So real men avoid politics in America.....until the time comes that they are compelled to get involved. And that time is now. My only hope is the response led by conservative men is as aggressive as is necessary given the circumstances. And when the mush-headed women raise their mindless voices and say they are too ‘mean-spirited’, we shout them down and get even more aggressive.
True conservative men are not threatened by strong independent conservative women.
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