Posted on 03/26/2011 12:50:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrat and female pioneer for women in politics, Geraldine Ferraro passed away today in the age of 75 from her battle with blood cancer. She was a classy and smart woman who would discuss politics, and may differ with Republicans, but was always respectful.
As a woman, I admire Ferraro’s tenacity and paving the way for others in politics. We may disagree on politics, but she never demeaned the other side. Pure class.
More from CNN:
In 1985, Ferraro was the first female vice presidential candidate from a major U.S. political party when she ran with Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale.
They lost by a landslide to Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and vice presidential candidate George H.W. Bush. In what became the first of Reagan’s two terms in the White House, the Reagan-Bush ticket won the popular vote 58.8% to 40% and then nearly swept the electoral votes, 525 to 13.
In 1978, she was elected as a U.S. representative for the 9th Congressional District of New York and was re-elected in 1980 and 1982.
Sarah Palin wrote on Facebook:
My family and I would like to express our sincere condolences to the family of Geraldine Ferraro. When I had the honor of working alongside Geraldine on election night last year, we both discussed the role of women in politics and our excited expectation that someday that final glass ceiling would be shattered by the election of a woman president. She was an amazing woman who dedicated her life to public service as a teacher, prosecutor, Congresswoman, and Vice Presidential candidate. She broke one huge barrier and then went on to break many more. The world will miss her. May she rest in peace and may her example of hard work and dedication to America continue to inspire all women. Flashback, via RuBegonia on Twitter, of Ferraro and Palin, the only two women VP, talking politics. A profound moment. Two female pioneers for each of their parties.
Remember when Palin became the nominee? Ferraro talked about how proud of a moment it was for women, to have a female in a ticket for the presidency. I’ll always remember that.
Sarah, always the gracious, classy one, but Ferraro was not nearly the “great woman” people would like to think of her as. I mean, she identified with and praised Moon(bat)dale, for crying out loud!!
I saw here on FOX several times. She was as partisan as they come. I'll always remember her "clucking" like a chicken when she thought she came up with a "zinger" against the Republicans. She was classless political hack.
Sarah Weddington is a decent woman. Deluded fanatic on that same issue. Why I mentioned the priests. When you put your trust in false prophets, you can be excused to a degree. To what degree, only God knows.
There is nothing wrong with Palin being gracious and there is nothing to fear from a dead woman.
Then they will show that they have no class.
And it's a shame some very ungracious FReepers see the passing of a political opponent as an occasion to speak ill of the recently deceased. This thread has some comments that made me blink to make sure I wasn't accidentally on another forum. FreeRepublic is supposed to be conservative, and conservatives are supposed to have manners.
Thanks to those FReepers who understand that when someone dies, it's best to respect that solemn event, and leave any judgments of the person's character and politics to God, before whom all our puny opinions are as dust.
I agree. She used to be very snarky and dismissive of the Right every time she opened her mouth. I am a little surprised that after the obligatory RIP here on FR threads, people feel compelled to add that she was gracious and kind. I can't think of one time I watched her and didn't cringe at the absurd assertions she made against the Right.
It's a shame we live in a country where you do that without being imprisoned.
“Gender is irrelevant. Ferraro was corrupt and Sarah shouldn’t have praised her.”
I agree with you all the way
No. Probably not.
Frankly, I think it was the only redeeming action the woman ever took.
Geez Tread. This lady passed away today. Rest in peace Ms. Ferraro. Palin’s remarks were timely and entirely appropriate.
Ferraro set an example for proper conduct by the left toward Palin and other high-profile conservative women. Of course, few got the message, but I appreciate her effort and admire the courage she demonstrated in doing so. I tend to think that her words were comforting and encouraging to Sarah and her family as well.
Ferraro always had much more class than most other rats. She was a major cut above their herd. She was one of the very few rats who, when I would see her turn up on a political talk show such as Hannity, I didn’t think to myself, “Oh geez, not this asshole again.” She was always gracious, friendly, smiling and respectful.
She was bright and good-natured, just like Sarah. Perhaps she saw some of herself in Sarah. I’d like to think so.
Nice remarks from Sarah.
I'm not so sure about that.
Dead Democrat women vote all the time.
May God have mercy on her pro-abortion soul.
“Thanks to those FReepers who understand that when someone dies, it’s best to respect that solemn event, and leave any judgments of the person’s character and politics to God, before whom all our puny opinions are as dust.”
I suppose this includes Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, etc.
Thank you, she was as despicable as they come, I’m truly tired of this Bush-bot nonsense, you see where this graciousness err, pandering to the other side got Bush, absolutely nowhere.
It’s not really a surprise that Palin celebrates feminism (the real message of her facebook post). It’s been her theme all the way through her career.
Haven’t we had enough “historic firsts?” I am sick of “first this, first that,” based on race, gender, religion,etc. Let’s grow up, America.
You need to work on your hate issues.
I remember seeing them on fox last year (I think) and Geraldine treated Sarah like sh&t. Sarah should not suck up now.
When the writer of the article gets the dates wrong, gets the facts wrong about which term it was for Reagan/Bush, the rest of the story has no credibility. I know that it was copy/pasted from CNN, but that should be a red flag to vet their facts even closer.
As others have posted, Ferraro was a hack and quite possibly a crook. No loss to humanity in her passing.
My $0.02
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