Posted on 09/07/2008 3:16:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I once made a bet that Canada and the United States would see a woman or a black in the top political job from the political right (the Conservative party and the Republicans respectively) before the centre-left succeeded in that feat.
My reasoning was simple though counter-intuitive: Despite the popular view that right-of-centre parties are anti-women or anti-minority, they are nothing of the sort. They are pro-individual and pro-merit. So they oppose race and gender quotas because they see such policies as harmful to individuals (i.e.: if you don't belong to the "proper" group); such policies also interfere with normal incentives and rewards in education and in the workplace. That position is then portrayed by partisan opponents and glib pundits, incorrectly but opportunistically, as anti-female and anti-minority.
But for most people, at least outside of the American south, it is the ideology that is the problem, not the skin colour or gender.
Problematically for left or centre-left parties, the gender or minority activists tend to be drawn from the more left-wing and radical sides of those parties and their policies reflect that: Barack Obama's positions on unions, taxes, and affirmative action, for example. But mainstream voters dislike much of the policy package, which is why Obama might lose and why Hillary Clinton spent years moving to the middle and downplaying her left-wing past.
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I always love it when the usual suspects get up-in-arms over the use of antler material in handles and such.
Not knowing antlers are shed annually.
If McCain/Palin win, one of the best side benefits will be that the Old-Girl feminists will, once-and-for-all, be seen as—not just plain wrong—but (gasp!) terminally “uncool.”
I.e. a bunch of hateful old hags.
We have to go backwards to return to good morals and ethics. The Dims direction is an upward, ever faster spiral of debauchery that ultimately explodes. I'm following the road that leads back to the entrance of the 'house' our forefathers built.
Aww. come on! I am getting visuals of Eleanor Clift with her hand-held. Shudder.
She probably has a custom made bent one with Bill's picture screen printed on it somewhere.
Skull: My men are not pansies, Holroyd, they’re tough dudes.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Christopher Lee deliver that line.
I’m touched that you care. :-)
His performance in the flick was indeed, priceless. ;>
Skull to male Blue Moonie: “You say you love me..... but are you willing to prove it?”
They are ready for Pap? lol....
Martha: “Well, Kate, you’ve got to be you. If you aren’t you, then who will be?”
Martha: “Well, Kate, you’ve got to be you. If you aren’t you, then who's gonna be YOU?”
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