Posted on 02/14/2011 7:42:57 AM PST by pissant
I applaud Sarah Palin’s passion, her adroit sense of humor, and her you-go-girl! gumption. But the more I learn about Sarah Palin, the more I become perplexed by her over-heated gender-bending rhetoric.
I believe we can all agree that men and women should have equal opportunities. But let’s not confuse equal opportunities with identical outcomes. Just because a woman has the same right to an education and a decent job doesn’t mean she will pursue the identical career path, toil as long, or work as many years as a man.
Men and women have differing proclivities and interests — most Americans understand this fact. But then there is the small band of disaffected feminists who adamantly insist any and all social differences are the product of gender discrimination.
So where does the former vice-presidential candidate stand on all of this?
Let’s take the gender wage gap. Dozens of studies show that when the relevant factors are taken into account — training, experience, hours worked, and so forth — any salary difference is smaller than a twinkle in Nancy Pelosi’s eye.
But during the 2008 presidential campaign, Palin used the myth to skewer her Democratic opponent. Ignoring the fact that most of the top-level staffers in Obama’s former Senate office were male, she made this charge: “Out on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work, but according to the Senate payroll records, women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get.”
Ratcheting up women’s sense of resentment, Palin then asked, “Does he think that the women aren’t working as hard? Does he think they are 17% less productive?”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I agree. It’s not harsh. Just amazingly stupid.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html
Since you apparently didn’t read it the last time I posted it.
But while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather changes. We can say, however, that any potential benefits of proposed emissions reduction policies are far outweighed by their economic costs.Sarah Palin.
None of which supports AGW or Algore in any way.
Poor, poor pissant. If this is all the better you can do, you aren't going to get very far in life.
I certainly did read it. You apparently didn’t. And it is POST ClimateGate anyway.
If I’m going to accept a politician that clung to Algore’s fairytale for years then finds an “out” to smack Copenhagen and Obama via ClimateGate, I might as well accept Mitt Romney being a legit pro-lifer, Newt Pelosi-Gingrich not being a Palin-esque global warming shill, Huckabee being tough as nails on illegal aliens, McCain never supporting amnesty, and Rudy being pro-2nd amendment. They all made these asinine, ridiculous claims, just like Precious’ newfound schtick on AGW.
Unlike you and your fellow cultists, I look at previous record and words, BEFORE it beomes convenient to pretend she’s some James Inhofe style skeptic. Re-read what I posted. She’s as pathetic on the subjct as you are.
Romney - Lifetime NRA member
Precious - Climate Skeptic since East Anglia emails exposed.
Not sure which is more hilarious.
Here's her real stance on our Border problem: Interview with O'Rielly.
Good God man... I’m not even sure that’s English.
Yer' an idiot.
They ALL quoted her
Exactly. It’s amnesty. The ONLY people that she agrees need to be deported are those who don’t “register” for amnesty. Your reading comprehension is abysmal:
Palin: Then let’s keep it, then, then we won’t complicate it any more. Let’s keep it simple. And let’s say no that if you are here illegally, if you don’t follow the steps that at some point in immigration reform that we are going to be able to provide that will allow you somehow to be able to work - if you are not going to do that, then you will be deported. You will be gone.
That analysis of the Alaska senate race is bunk!!! palin repeatedly spoke out and posted and even mocked murky for the write in campaign. Further, the dem was no factor in the race, giving Alaska dems an opportunity for operation chaos against Palin by proxy by voting for the murk. Check out the vote counts in recent Alaska elections and see how many fewer votes the dem got. In ‘08, there were 151k dem votes and 147k rep votes for senate. In ‘10, there were 60k dem votes, and 198k votes between murk and miller. There it is lock, stock, and barrel. Free free to park that crapalysis elsewhere.
It’s kind of tough to figure out with the shady science right now, what are we supposed to be doing right now with our climate. Are we warming or are we cooling? I don’t think Americans are even told anymore if it’s global warming or just climate change. And I don’t attribute all the changes to man’s activities. I think that this is, in a lot of respects, cyclical and the earth does cool and it warms.Sarah Palin.
Poor pissy... Doesn't even make a "good" troll.
Come back to us pissant. Let go your derangement...
POST ClimateGate SSS (sudden skepticism syndrome) is as meaningless as Romney’s Lifetime NRA membership since 2007
Yeah... Between that and her "troops on the border" comments, she's a La Raza spokeswoman...
You REALLY aren't very good at this.
The question is, what is the “do that” she is referring to? REGISTER. Why register? So they can stay and work and contribute and not be deported. IOW, McCain-Kennedy.
Your interpretation only. Sorry pissy...
If there was smoke there, I'd change my mind. I've done it before. I was a Pence supporter, during elections past, until someone found out he was all for a renewal of the AWB and brought it to my attention.
You are going to have to do a LOT better than you are.
Why would she be so adamant about reducing the mythical “greenhouse” gasses, for pete’s sake. And “our carbon footprint” and why blabber on like this:
GIBSON: Let me talk a little bit about environmental policy, because this interfaces with energy policy and you have some significant differences with John McCain. Do you still believe that global warming is not man-made?
PALIN: I believe that man’s activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change. Here in Alaska, the only arctic state in our union, of course, we see the effects of climate change more so than any other area with ice pack melting. Regardless, though, of the reason for climate change, whether it’s entirely, wholly caused by man’s activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet — the warming and the cooling trends — regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it and we have to make sure that we’re doing all we can to cut down on pollution.
GIBSON: But it’s a critical point as to whether or not this is man-made. He says it is. You have said in the past it’s not.
PALIN: The debate on that even, really has evolved into, OK, here’s where we are now: scientists do show us that there are changes in climate. Things are getting warmer. Now what do we do about it. And John McCain and I are gonna be working on what we do about it.
GIBSON: Yes, but isn’t it critical as to whether or not it’s man-made, because what you do about it depends on whether its man-made.
PALIN: That is why I’m attributing some of man’s activities to potentially causing some of the changes in the climate right now.
GIBSON: But I, color me a cynic, but I hear a little bit of change in your policy there. When you say, yes, now you’re beginning to say it is man-made. It sounds to me like you’re adapting your position to Sen. McCain’s.
PALIN: I think you are a cynic because show me where I have ever said that there’s absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any affect, or no affect, on climate change.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5781460&page=1
Not mine, hers:
O Reilly: (interrupts) But what do you do with these folks? Do you make them register with the federal government? Do you tell them they have sixty days to get outta here before we put you in jail? What do we do with them?
Palin: Do we make them register with the Federal government? Yes, we do. We have to
O Reilly. (interrupts) Yes, so we know who they, where they are...
Palin: Yes, exactly. So in answer to that question, absolutely. We ‘re not giving them a free pass. We’re not going to reward the bad behavior.
O Reilly: (interrupts) Alright, So you don’t reward the bad behavior. You make them register with the federal government. Say you give them sixty days to register with the fed gov., there’s a form at the Post Office they have to send like a census form, alright. Say they don’t do it? Alright.
Palin: You deport them.
O Reilly: (interrupts) Ok so After a period of time, the ones that don’t cooperate then you catch them, they’re gone. Now you have these people that register. You are going to have millions of them. Then they register and they say - ok we obeyed what President Palin told us to do -then what? - do you give them green cards to work right away, what do you do with them?
Palin: You know there has to be that expectation that they will work and that they will contribute.
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