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.

[Bryan24]

National Organization for LIBERAL Women.

Unmasked hatred for conservative values.

It is NOT about women. It is about LIBERAL ideology. There is NO DOUBT about that, now.

[ari-freedom]

She didn’t sleep her way to political power. Unlike Hillary.

I thought that was Bill sleeping his way to power without Hillary.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

And STILL no comment from Hillary!

She’s in Chappaqua cackling her cankles off!

[hdstmf]

Please Gloria, go back to your ironing...

Why isn’t my shirt ready yet?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Checking the comments from the first article you linked to from "across the pond" had me LOL!

"Sara Palin has cured my electile disfunction."

[Homer_J_Simpson]

She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.

Oh, Lord, let it be so. Amen.

[ari-freedom]

and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.

only to be dumped for some drunk guy who won only a couple thousand votes. Equal pay for equal work?

[central_va]

Sarah, you're definitly over the target. This is the rally point, commence bombing run.

[j. earl carter]

the anti-feminist right wing ...-- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president.

Here is the real genius of the Palin VP pick:

It gives the appearance of being an affirmative action ploy. It is not. I don't think it was possible for McCain to pick a male version of Gov. Palin (relative unknown who is strongly conservative),and there really weren't any popular candidates who were conservative enough (Rudy, Romney, et al.). The fake affirmative action angle gave McCain cover to name a real, honest-to-god, middle american as his VP choice.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"...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..."

Not really. You owe it to women like my mother who got up every day and went to work, and ran her own business, and raised 4 proud, patriotic, productive Americans (well, 3 out 4; my sister's still kind of a hippie, but she does own a gun!).

You don't owe it to a bunch of hairy-legged unwashed professional malcontents. As with all necessary social changes in America, it was the ordinary folks who just did what needed to be done, without fanfare, without protest signs, without television cameras, and without the cancerous anger with which the left has infected this nation.

[higgmeister]

She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger!

Badge of honor!

[CharacterCounts]

Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton.

She is exactly correct!

Hillary, like all true feminists, rode her hubby's coattails to what little power she has been able to attain.

[Pistolshot]

"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."

"We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs"

"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

- Gloria Steinem.

Put some ice on it, Gloria.

[Arrowhead1952]

The more howls I hear from the MSM, the better I like her!!

Same here, and maybe we won't have to see all those awful pantsuits and cankles.

[relictele]

Funny - that’s the slogan we’ve used for Steinem for 30+ years.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

thanks for those UK stories. British MSM can see from across the ocean what ours can’t see in person

[allmendream]

“Barack’s sidekick Joe Biden looks a dull old dog compared with the ball of fire that is Palin.”

Goodness Gracious! Great BALLS OF FIRE!

Jerry Lee “the Killer” Lewis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-ZBookLRM

[massgopguy]

Gloria Steinem and the Sisterhood of the Murdered Babies. There I said it!
Hey Gloria, I can smell your feet!

[driftless2]

"1973"

Actually Steinum, Friedan, and most of the other arch-femimist hags were/are strong Marxists. That affiliation was conveniently left out of the narrative when their cohorts in Big Media were giving them all that coverage in the heyday of the so-called feminist revolution.

[Ezekiel]

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.

Sarah Palin slices and dices these feminist hags and their satanic philosophy without even trying. All she has to do is stand there with her family. While the Obama death cultists harp on defending the "right to choose", the voters will see sweet little Trig. He is the face of the all the innocent imperfect babies the hags demand a right to kill. Yet there he is, a real baby being held and loved by a real family. He's not a political prop, he's just a little guy on a world stage - a silent witness who speaks more persuasively than the slickest of Harvard grads.