Posted on 05/03/2006 5:54:47 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
[T]here is apparently no room for me in the Democratic Party. In fact, I have spent much of the past week on a forced march to the G.O.P. And the bayonet at my back isn't in the hands of the Republicans; the Democrats are the bullyboys. Such lions of the left as Barbara Ehrenreich, the writers at Salon and much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan have made it abundantly clear to me that I ought to start packing my bags. I'm not leaving, but sometimes I wonder: When did I sign up to be the beaten wife of the Democratic Party?
Here's why they're after me: I have made a lifestyle choice that they can't stand, and I'm not cowering in the closet because of it. I'm out, and I'm proud. I am a happy member of an exceedingly "traditional" family....
...Every reviewer and reporter who has encountered my book has assumed that I'm a conservative Republican. At the end of an interview on a national TV network, a reporter said, "Caitlin, I can't let you go without asking you one question." Here was her question: Was it really true that I'm a Democrat? Those reporters' assumptions don't tell you anything about me, nor do they tell you much about the reporters themselves: they made an honest mistake. What it tells you a whole lot about is the Democratic Party and the face it projects to the world. It's a party that supports gay families, as I do, and has vast sympathy for many other kinds of alternative lifestyles. But we let the Republicans have complete ownership of the image of the traditional family. And that's one reason we keep losing elections...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Why the hell not? I have this discussion with my sister all the time: she is strongly pro-life yet continues to vote straight Dem as 'they are the compassionate party'. Ha! They are the party of death, and the party of keeping people down and dependent on the government. The cognotive disonance is astounding!
It is a good article, once you get past the George-W.-Bush-hates-the-poor and all the other shinola.
The dem party of today panders to its most rabid moonbat members, and not to John and Joan Q. Public.
Except this particular "alternative lifestyle" "gay families" (what is that, anyway?) doesn't keep to itself and instead attempts to damage individuals and society.
This is cultural relativism at it's worse and the fact that even 'traditional' housewives are buying it is disturbing.
next thing you know, they'll be raising their children 'gender neutral', which really is raising your children to be many times more susceptible to questioning their 'gender role' and experimenting with the "gay lifestyle" themselves - in other words, raising their children to become gay. Why would any sane mother want that of her children?
Its a good article!
Worth the read
Caitlin Flanagan is "traditional."
I'm just wondering ... what exactly did George W Bush do against poor families?
I know Clinton ended welfare as he knew it, so surely she should have voted against him!
I notice a curious surplus of generalities and lack of specifics in the charges against Bush. What has Bush done that's so bad, other than cut taxes and invade Iraq?
Just wondering ...
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For a better look at Ms. Flanagan, check out her long-rambling piece called: How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement -- in praise of nannies.
A wanna be DILF.
I just got off a thread where the conservatives are being flamed but what is not understood is the Democrats have big problems too. Both parties have forsaken their bases.
The women and the blacks are taken for granted by the 'Rats who have found a new group )illegal aliens) to pander to.
I left the dems because of their antifamily attitudes, their subtle and not so subtle racism, and their arrogance.
I had rarely voted pubbie and was a dem volunteer.
When I saw the vicious attack on Katherine Harris during the vote recount and hen trashing of blacks and Jews as too stupid to vote right I realized that they just use thee groups and will turn on them in a heartbeat. The dem party is all about electing a few rich white men.
And don't forget the absentee military vote the dims didn't want to count.
Yep, nannies are great-- if you can afford them.
I find it weird that she beats up women for dropping off kids in day care when she obviously has the means not only to stay at home but to employ a nanny who helps her. Smells like hypocrisy to me... so maybe she could stay in the Dimocrat party :-) I saw her on TV-- she seems really creepy to me. She actually thinks "date night" for parents is bad-- like being able to have a adult-only conversation once in awhile is a bad thing? What planet is she from?
I'd much rather listen to a stay at home mom who has good advice (from experience) about the sacrifices you make to live within your means and still have a mom stay at home. Not an elitist weirdo.
I would be interested as to what church she attends, and what they believe.
You want creepy? Her husband makes Barbie movies for a living...yikes!
She's not a hypocrite, she's a package. The latest thing in NY media circles. People package themselves as a pundit of a viewpoint,lifestyle or significant demographic and then base a career on it.
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