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?”
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Do you know what perplexes me?
"No, what?"
YOU DO! You whining, sniveling, snot-nosed, liberal Jack-Wagon!
Which candidate meets with your approval? Or is it a mythical candidate that exists in your head?
He’s complaining about Palin’s PC BS liberalism and you call him a liberal?
Considering everything in your post is a distortion or an outright lie, your PDS is coming through loud and clear.
Somebody got beat up by a girl. ;o)
Or else be labeled as a “hater”, lying or just plain mean nasty people, picking of poor Sarah for no good reason. Although the nastiest insults and most vitriolic responses come from the Palin Cult. (See #19!)
If these people were to live up to the same code they claim is so highly regarded and displayed by their icon, they would be gracious and respectful of other opinions and reflect that in this discussion. The truth is revealed in how they behave, which further confirms why we do not support her.
I will take her over Obama and any of the current GOP presidential wannabes, any day. Sarah has my vote.
However I am pretty sure she knows "9" is "IX". Its no wonder you don't understand her positions. You brainless wonder.
Every single word is demonstrably true. And easily so.
Who is your perfect candidate?
Pissant : "Hey look! Sarah thinks Reagan sucks!"
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Looking at what Sarah has actually said and done vs what the rest of these imbeciles are saying she has said... The PDS comes through loud and clear.
Most of this stuff has been so done to death that it doesn't seem worth it to argue over any more.
Your bias is showing through. I have listened to lots of her speeches and I don’t see gibberish. There are some mannerism I don’t like, and she has done a few things I don’t like (supporting Juan McCain and Karen Handle in Georgia), but she is us.
The Harvard, Stanford, Yale elites have gotten us into this mess. We need good TEA party candidates from the core of our country to get us out.
Sarah is the center of the core.
Bullsh*t. And that’s been proven too...
You could not be more wrong.
A ‘proud champion of illegitimacy?’ ... you are sick. She champions conservative Christian values.
I will pray for you.
Carey Roberts is a male, by all appearances an elderly , balding male with glasses. But you probably knew that.
I would dismiss her for her naive, ill informed letter she wrote to Sen. Murky begging her and Stevens to vote for LOST.
or, Joe “bite me” Biden.
Try me skippy. Pick your best one.
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