Posted on 08/18/2010 2:45:01 PM PDT by onyx
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted American women the right to vote. Words cannot express the depth of gratitude we owe to those brave feminist foremothers who struggled and sacrificed, endured imprisonment and ridicule, and fought fearlessly to grant future generations of American women a voice. We stand on their shoulders. Our opportunities are their legacy; our achievements, their monument.
In honor of their sacrifice and triumph, I’m proud to endorse another group of strong American women who continue this tradition of service to our country. Their willingness to make sacrifices in order to serve others and make this world a better place by empowering individual Americans deserves our support. Regardless of whether the many candidates I’ve had the honor of endorsing win or lose this time around, I support them because they boldly shake things up in their primary races. They don’t just sit on the sidelines whining; instead, they are in the arena fighting for commonsense constitutional conservative solutions; and in their oft-characterized (and enormously challenging) “underdog” status, they all exemplify the qualities of a winner who will serve admirably and for all the right reasons.
So let us highlight some more winners.
Martha Roby served on the Montgomery City Council where she fought tax increases and worked hard to reduce government spending. She’s now running to represent Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District with a strong message of reform to get our country back on the right track. Please join me in supporting this hardworking, proud mother of two by visiting her website at www.martharoby.com and following her on Facebook and Twitter.
Renee Ellmers is a true citizen-politician running in North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District. Having worked in the health care industry all her life, she joined countless other concerned Americans at the town hall meetings last summer to protest the disastrous Obamacare legislation. And she didn’t stop there! Renee decided to join the ranks of patriotic mothers across the country who have the courage to run for office this year and fight to make sure our children have as bright a future as we were given. Renee has an uphill battle against a truly out of touch incumbent who made news not too long ago when he was caught on video assaulting a student who asked him if he supported the Obama agenda. Simple enough question, but this Democrat Congressman who’s been in Washington for 14 years turned violent rather than answer it. My point with this is that Renee is willing to answer that question. She supports a commonsense conservative agenda which will put our country back on sound fiscal footing. Please visit Renee’s website at www.reneeforcongress.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Jackie Walorski will make an excellent representative of Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District, having been born and raised there and serving as a state representative for the past five years. She knows the people, she knows the issues that matter to them, and most importantly, she knows what she stands for – limited government, fiscal restraint, and a proper respect for our Constitution. The incumbent Democrat she’s running against has already launched his first attack ad against her, so I hope you’ll join me in standing with Jackie. She truly knows what public service means. Please visit her website at www.standwithjackie.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Vicky Hartzler is determined to shake things up in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. She ran an underdog campaign to win her primary and is now determined to challenge a 17-term Democrat incumbent who has long lost touch with the good people of Missouri. Vicky grew up on her family farm and is still a farmer with her husband. Her diverse background includes being a teacher, a state legislator, a grassroots organizer, a successful small business owner, and a proud mom of a wonderful daughter. She’s a dynamic commonsense conservative who is running to get our economy and long-term fiscal security back on track for her daughter and all of our children. Please visit this farmer’s daughter’s website and learn more about Vicky at www.vickyhartzler.com and follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
Pam Bondi and Brenna Findley are running for Attorney General in their states – Pam in Florida, and Brenna in Iowa. These are both bold, sharp, selfless women who will respect our Constitution, defend their states, protect our rights, and push back against any overreach of the federal government. We desperately need these conservative leaders who won’t kowtow to the Obama administration’s big government overreach into our states, small businesses, families, and individual lives. Please visit Pam’s website at www.pambondi.com and Brenna’s at www.findleyforiowa.com.
Also on the state level, I would like to endorse Beth Chapman who is running for re-election as Secretary of State of Alabama and will continue to serve the good people there with distinction, integrity, and common sense. Let’s not forget that reform often begins with the tough work at the local level, and it’s important to get good conservative reformers working from the ground up. Please visit her website at www.bethchapman.com.
On this anniversary of women’s suffrage, let’s take a moment to be grateful for the diversity of the debate. Women don’t walk in lockstep with each other in politics, any more than men do. We should be proud of our ability to engage in a civil discussion and healthy debate. I know I am. Unfortunately, I’ve recently come under attack for speaking up for sisters who seek to serve in public office. The sad part is that the attack comes from other sisters who happen to be on the other side of an issue that has been of great importance to American women from the time of our feminist foremothers, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, down to today. I’m speaking of the issue of life. I feel compelled to offer some advice to our sisters who like to throw stones at those of us who respectfully disagree with them on this issue (and they sometimes refuse to even countenance the fact that some of us can call ourselves feminists and disagree with those who claim the mantle of “real feminists”). First, ladies, it’s hard to take a critic seriously when they lecture you wearing a bear suit. So, it’s difficult for me to drum up much outrage at this latest ad. But, really, lying about a sister while wearing an Ewok outfit is no way to honor our foremothers on the eve of the 90th anniversary of their victory. But, that aside, I’d love to know where you got those get-ups. Halloween is just around the corner, and Piper and Trig would look adorable as little grizzly bears.
We face so many challenges today. We struggle to provide a better future for our children despite our economic downturn and a federal government intent on robbing from our children’s tomorrow to pay for politicians’ recklessness today. We struggle against the Obama administration’s pending decision to remove a drug treatment for breast cancer based on cost considerations and what could be argued as a person’s “productivity in life” rather than medicine. We struggle against our reliance on foreign countries to provide necessary energy supplies while America’s plentiful energy resources sit idle, warehoused under locked-up lands, just as the unemployed sit and wait for government to allow them the opportunity to responsibly utilize our resources. We struggle to ensure that America is strong and vigilant so that our sons and daughters can live by the motto “Peace through Strength.”
We may disagree about how to get there, but I’d like to think that we all want an America that is strong, prosperous, peaceful, and free.
So, ladies, let’s lead. In the words of that great American woman, Abigail Adams, “We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.” Let’s get things done.
- Sarah Palin
Sarah is going to alienate more voters than she wins with her gender bender foolishness. She needs to cease and desist with the nonsense.
What are you on about?
There is no question that Sarah can express herself very well about something women should be proud to be a part of today. History shows that women went through a lot in the past and have come a long way. So I'm grateful to those who have made it possible for me to be where I am today without being belittled or abused just because I am woman.
God bless their souls, and God bless Sarah Palin for reminding us of that fact.
Hey Sharky, don’t expect a straight answer from a 24/7 Sarah-obsessed poster. As you can see, their objective isn’t to deal with the facts but rather to spread disinformation and obfuscate the truth to support and advance their agenda. Speaking of cultists, you couldn’t have found a more dedicated anti Palin cultist.
Is there any basis for saying this? Some more data (different polls or case studies) to support that conclusion, perhaps? Or is this one more example of talking out of your behind, as usual?
Looks like he is in dire need of some good TLC at home (or wherever he can get it), LOL. All those pent up emotions and frustrations are finding their way on FR and particularly on the Sarah threads.
As Sarah makes more endorsements and in particular after this screed, it is becoming clearer to me she is walking the feminazi path; all but declaring a gender war. Framing it nicely as a celebration of women's suffrage doesn't change the fact she is basing her preferences on gender. How is it different from the race baiting, class warfare, victimology meme of the left? I thought that was their stock-in-trade. No good will come of it.
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski would disagree with you since Palin endorsed Joe Miller, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson would disagree with you since Palin endorsed Rick Perry, and poor Didi Scozzafava lost the Palin endorsement to a man from a third party.
I think we’ve already discussed the three exceptions you point out. Plausible explanations for breaking the “gender” pattern are available for each one to anyone caring to look.
You aren’t very convincing for a conspiracy guy.
And if you were being honest with yourself(and me) you would consider potential rationales for these exceptions to the gender rule re the three outliers. Did I not cover this with you before???
I don’t know, I don’t recognize your name, but I’m not much interested in your conspiracy theories and If I have had to read your explanations once already, then I sure don’t want to do it again.
For some it takes more than one reading; some never get it. Why? Because they don't want to. ;^)
Why do you conspiracy guys do this, I showed you examples that don’t fit your theory so you start posting vague, cryptic stuff that know one knows what it means.
I really do not know what your posts are supposed to be about.
Yes you do; you just don't want to admit it...
I can't believe it either.
I'm now awaiting the obligatory posting of Michael Reagan's "Welcome Back, Dad" article from two years ago (a lot has happened since then).
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