Palin: wrong woman, wrong message

LA Times ^ | September 4, 2008 | Gloria Steinem

[nikos1121]

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."

So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband.

And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.

This could be huge.

[omega4179]

If sarah had just bravely aborted her baby she could be just like a liberal. Because none of this is about feminism its about liberalism and aborting the helpless.

[popdonnelly]

“they will really go nuclear on this woman.”

Oh, they will go nuclear no matter what happens. We have to respond.

[RichInOC]

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.

That’s actually true. Sarah Palin built her political career on her own merits. She didn’t sleep her way to political power. Unlike Hillary.

[DouglasKC]

Governor Palin IS like a pitbull to these folks. They keep trying to pass her off as a puppy, but they know that if they get too close she’s going to bite their hand off.

[syriacus]

Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?"

Yes. She was being honest.

Most days the VP does what the President wants her to do.

Since she is not a Lib, Palin did not pretend to be able to read McCain's mind.

[badpacifist]

The seventies called.... Gloria Steinem ...they don’t want you back.

[Alas Babylon!]

Of course Gloria Steinhem is going to be against Palin! Steinhem is first and foremost a left-wing democrat. Steinhem didn't listen to Palin last night, and doesn't talk to anyone who supports her. All her world is wrapped up in the Hollywood Left, American-hating wine-sipping, cheese-eating elitist coast culture. She wouldn't understand a real American if one bit her on the a$$.

Same goes for the LA Times.

Yawn!

Save it for the election, biotches....

[SECURE AMERICA]

(Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. )
UNLIKE THE HUNDREDS OF WOMEN THAT HAVE SHARED HER (HILLARY’S) HUSBAND....
(She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger. )
HARDLY. SHE IS MORE MARGERAT THATCHER WITH AN AMERICAN BENT.

SORRY GLORIA. BUT YOUR SOUR GRAPES ARE JUST A REFLECTION OF YOUR SOUR LIFE..........

[nikos1121]

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.

That's exactly where Obama and Joe Bideni should be right now and where they should stay until after the election, at home with their childre, hiding under the covers.

[NonValueAdded]

Nonsense, Gloria, she is everything you all were calling for, but feminine too.

[rintense]

Amazing article from across the sea!

[wideawake]

Thirty years ago, a surprsing number of people used to pay attention to what Gloria Steinem said - if you can imagine that.

[Moonman62]

They considered it their birthright and now think it was stolen from them.

Which is going to aborted. They should like that.

[hosepipe]

MOST democrats are women..

[SECURE AMERICA]

Do you get the feeling that Sarah Palin is the left’s worst nightmare?

CONSIDERING THE EMORMOUS AMOUNT OF HATRED AND VILE BEING SPEWED FROM THE LEFT I WOULD SAY YOU NAILED IT......
I LOVE THE SMELL OF FEAR FROM THE LEFT IN THE MORNING....

[syriacus]

Perhaps Gloria will finally realize that

a can-do, co-operative attitude gets you farther than incessant kvetching.

[reagandemo]

LA Times.....zzzzzzzz Does anyone still read that rag?

[ejonesie22]

Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.

Um correct me if I am wrong here but Doesn't Todd Palin spend more time at home than Sarah? So who is campaigning and who is actually DOING?...

[Albion Wilde]

"American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children."

Huh?

Leftist pretzel logic. As if Obama is planning to be home, or Michelle has been home from her half-million dollar patronage job. Who says Todd Palin can't be there for his children? He obviously already has been.

[ari-freedom]

we conservatives figured that America should also get a turn to have a female conservative leader