Posted on 04/06/2012 3:34:42 AM PDT by chessplayer
Maybe Santorum should go after the male-only masonic temples? I bet there are quite a few in PA...
Is this part of Santorums’ re-engineered campaign?
I am not from the SPAIL police.
It's early and honestly I didn't even notice the minor mistake until you replied.
Maybe he and Romney are mad because they only let men join, and that excludes milquetoast emasculated politicians.
What a great opportunity to affirm the concept of private property. A good window into the potential governing psyche of a presidential candidate.....
I took lessons and a few on course playing lessons from a PGA certified golf pro who had played for a time on the PGA tour. What he said about tee placement made a lot of sense. The Blue, White, Gold and Red (Ladies tees) were rather meaningless as far as gender and age and rather what tees you tee off from should be based on your handicap and average driving distance and the course the length and handicap rating. When I took a playing lesson along with three men, one was not all that happy when the golf pro had him tee off from the Red tees and had me tee off from the White tees. The other young guy was just as unhappy when the pro told him to tee off from the Gold tees : ),
As a woman who plays golf and loves the game and plays, not on a pro level but pretty competently and having beat a fair share of men, I have no problem with Augusta National’s rules for membership. Sure as a golfer and fan of the great golf courses, I’d love to play a round at Augusta but I respect their rights as a private club to decide who and who cannot be a member.
I hate mittens and saint Rick. Both make me sick.
Bingo. I am voting for Ron paul in the Ny primary as a protest. Myth and saint Rick are two frauds.
I wish just once that a politician would say, that is an irrelevant question for me to even entertain. Next?
no conservative here....this is a private club.....
Wouldn’t it be nice to find one person who stood up and saw this as an issue of the freedom of individuals to form private (PRIVATE) clubs and associations?
There is no law that prohibits women from forming female membership sports clubs.
I suppose they all “favor” boys in Girl Scouts and girls in Boy Scouts, too. How about women priests, Rick?
Seems the Zimmerman story is blowing up in their face so back to the “Republican War On Women.” Problem is that women buy stuff, gas and groceries. They could care less about not being able to join an elite golf club.
actually yeah, ask The Donald
men are “permitted” in beauty contest as trannies, as long as they take hormones, wax their chests and legs (etc) and wear makeup. Thanks for very strong duct tape?
So far, no women demanding to join the NFL or NBA....
As someone pointed out, the US Navy put women in submarines and the Army is gonna formally put them in combat, but so far neither academy has put women on their football teams
I guess Ricky has never been stuck behind a foursome of the Tuesday morning ladies 9-holers. Until then, this issue is none of his business.
Okay, I’m ducking.
The mostly white, all male Augusta is easy to attack for that very reason. People have been conditioned to think that all white males are priveledged, rich and don’t deserve their own “thing”. Also, there’s no Congressional White Caucus or a NAAWM (White Males) organization to swoop down and defend. We’re sunk.
The problem for Santorum is that if he tries to give a short treatise on private associations, and what he would prefer is not germane to how they run their association, the media would take four words out of it and make his campaign defend itself that Rick Santorum doesn’t think women should be allowed to play golf for the next three weeks.
You can complain about Santorum getting off message; you can complain about him not giving the best conservative answer on occasion (Zimmerman case); at least try to realize that the MSM are giving him a treatment that neither Romney, nor Newt (now that he is safely in low double digits) is getting, and Santorum is most likely thinking first about getting back to his core messages of conservative social values and a business/job friendly federal government.
It didn't sound to me as if either one were "mad" about it. Romney, when asked, said he's not much of a golfer, but IF he were a member and HE were in charge he would let women join. Rick said "I encourage Augusta to accept women members, but I recognize their right as a private organization to decide for themselves,".
It didn't sound to me as if either one were "mad" about it. Romney, when asked, said he's not much of a golfer, but IF he were a member and HE were in charge he would let women join. Rick said "I encourage Augusta to accept women members, but I recognize their right as a private organization to decide for themselves,".
Pandering to NAGs won't help.
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