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 ...
Keep reaching...
Carey Roberts is a male, by all appearances an elderly , balding male with glasses. But you probably knew that.
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Mr. Roberts is also a FReeper. Also posts under Free Man in DC. Or something like that.
FreeManDC is the correct tag.
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Courtesy ping.
That’s right. Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which McCain has been pushing since 2004, actually fines them and makes ‘em pay back taxes. That’s may not be a free pass in McPalin’s book. It is in the rest of AMerica’s when we melted down the capital phone banks to prevent Precious’ precious pathway to citizenship from becoming law.
Hey Carey, pop by and say hello sometime.
The guy's so damn stupid he doesn't see it. Oh, the irony........
He's either a Moby, or slightly insane, I guess we'll know someday.
This just is not true. The most she said in regards to 'man-made' global warming was that some of the things we do might, (as in 'we don't really know'), contribute, but the gist of her opinion held that climate was cyclical.
If Palin was as convinced, as you assert she was, pissant, of mankind causing global warming why would she, pre-VP nomination and as she does now, hammer home the point that we need to not only drill known sources for oil immediately but explore new fields? She also is an advocate of nuclear power.
Sure, she said she was open to all other types of potential energy sources, but until they prove utile we must become independent on what she describes as (I paraphrase) 'God's gift to us'.
Don't know about you, but I haven't heard too many man-made global warming advocates touting oil and natural gas very oft.
In general, women should earn the same wage as a man earns at the same job. A
By the same principal, there are some jobs that women (in general) are not “qualified” for, when based on the merit system. If I need to be carried out of a burning building, I really don’t care whether the person who saves me is male or female, as long as that person is at least 180lbs of muscle.
Sarah is NOT a Feminazi.
Have a good night, Pissant.
Yep - but that assumes one read past the first sentence. ;-)
People who talk about “weaning ourselves off
hydrocarbons” and “reducing our carbon footprint”,
and favor government placing a cap on greenhouse gases,
are either true Gorian believers or terribly misguided.
The spin here is almost as rich as Rudy telling us he’s pro-2A or Mitt saying he’s an Reagan Republican. It’s hilarious.
If these jokers come away from the O’Reilly interview believing that Palin is not for amnesty, I fear there is no hope ;-)
Well, maybe with all the millions of illegals, she thinks that her idea is the most realistic to deal with the problem, whether rightly or wrongly. If someone were to give her a better idea for dealing with the problem, how do any of us know if she wouldn’t accept it?
Has this *ever* been a major theme of Sarah Palin’s???
How dare ANYONE criticize HER!
When the boat is sinking, what’s the first step? Bailing water or plugging the hole?
Cut off all other benefits to illegals. Yes. All of them. No more fines for employers hiring them, straight jail time.
With no jobs and no scams to run on the "system", they'd deport themselves. Those wanting to BE Americans can apply to Citizenship.
Hey... Looky there, a "path" to Citizenship: Follow the friggin' Law...
That ain't good enough for the nay-sayers though. Don't trust me on this one, ask them...
“N00bs like you............”
I stopped reading right there...... read your own post to me and apply it to yourself in light of FR protocol. Ironic isn’t it?
Frankly, I think that many others here have posted responces to you in this thread that delivered the chastizement you’ve earned and deserve. That you’ve chosen to single me out for your “special treatment”, with the characterization of “NOOb,” tells me you are nothing more than a ciber bully whose sole worth is in the self percieved high valve based merely on seniority, rather than the surity that stems from clarity of thought. Your selected avatar/name says it all. Befitting.....it becomes you!
By the way I’ve been around FR since 2001....”NOOb”..... humph.....”NOOb”....indeed!
“....He would have won anyway, but JD was viable.”
We disagree on this point. If the vote totals between JD and MacCain were within 5-7% I might have agreed with you, but at 20%/80% I don’t think that Palin was a factor. You underestimate the power of encombancy vs the value of outside endorsement.
“On the other hand, she didn’t help Joe Miller beat Murkowski in a write-in, so her influence may have diminished between March and November.”
What should have diminished is your perception of the value of personal endorsements in political races. I would think that most people look to see who endorses who/what as a check on their already made decision, rather than as the sole reason to vote for or against someone....
As far as I can tell, Miller was as poor a campaigner as JD, and that commonality alone accounts for each of their electoral losses, Palins endorsement or lack of endorsement, notwithstanding.
I was seriously unimpressed with Palin when she said that. Knee-jerk political correctness doesn't look good on anyone.
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