It's called "shiksappeal" !
Posted on 10/07/2008 7:00:51 AM PDT by Alouette
Betty Friedan couldn't have predicted Sarah Palin.
Why do liberal Jews have such a problem with Sarah Palin?
One would think that the die-hard feminists in the Jewish community would trumpet the ascension of a woman to the second spot on a presidential ticket, much as they did over two decades ago when Geraldine Ferraro took center stage with Walter Mondale in a quixotic attempt to unseat Ronald Reagan.
At the time, Gloria Steinem and her feminist clones were tripping over each other to see who could best herald the Democratic vice presidential contender as the modern Susan B. Anthony of the feminist movement. Ferraro was a feminist to the core - abrasive, dour, humorless, angry, with about as much feminine charm as Bea Arthur from Maude. In short, she was one of them.
Sarah Palin is not.
In the world according to Jewish feminists and their feminist-leaning Jewish men (i.e., metrosexuals), Sarah Palin is an apostate. The anti-feminist. The polar opposite of all that a feminist must be. She's an anomaly. A mystery. A travesty.
Smiley, perky, energetic and photogenic, she's every feminist's nightmare - the girl-next-door goes to Washington.
Even Betty Friedan could not have predicted Sarah Palin.
Instead of sporting a NOW button, Sarah dons an NRA one, as in the National Rifle Association. Not only does she believe in gun ownership, she's actually (oh, the horror!) a hunter. She's been known to shoot those sturdy moose that liberals only see in National Geographic. She skins them, carves 'em up, and makes mooseburgers, which means she's also a meat eater. Not only that, but she proudly poses for pictures with her beastly trophies. Not even Xena, the feminist fantasy role model, ever did that on TV.
Sarah's husband doesn't even have an MD, PhD, or JD attached to his name. He works with his hands. He's a fisherman and an oil field worker in that North Slope region where those greedy oil tycoons and their Republican henchmen want to drill for oil and disrupt caribou mating habits. Unlike the feminists' gentle, progressive, modern (i.e., submissive) husbands, he probably drinks Budweiser, watches NASCAR, shovels his own driveway, and doesn't know what it's like when your stockbroker or shrink goes away on vacation to the Hamptons for a week.
Sarah married him after she finished not Wellesley, not Smith, not Vassar, but the University of Idaho (as in potatoes). She obviously hardly played the dating field, and never even took a few years off after college to find her inner self before launching a career as an independent working woman. She dove right into marriage and had five kids. One of whom joined the military (what, he couldn't get into college?). She's even proud of the fact that he's on his way to Iraq.
The liberal mantra dictates that because Sarah didn't bring her daughter to the Planned Parenthood center at age 13, the girl got pregnant. But instead of marching her down to the abortion clinic the next day, Sarah encouraged her to have the baby. Not only that, but her daughter is actually marrying the young man. Whoever heard of such a thing in Brookline or Cambridge?
Because Sarah doesn't believe in abortion, she herself opted not to terminate her own pregnancy, despite knowing that her child would be born with Down Syndrome. She actually regards the baby as a blessing. Sort of like what it says in the Bible.
Sarah belongs to one of those very non-progressive Christian evangelical churches that believes in the power of prayer. She even encouraged her constituents to pray for victory in Iraq. Pray for victory in a war? Can you picture any liberal progressive rabbi doing that? Not surprisingly, the very non-liberal Chabad Rabbi of Alaska is a big fan of Sarah.
Sarah Palin is the anti-liberal, a die-hard conservative Republican somewhere to the right of John McCain. And whatever one claims about her lack of foreign policy experience, it's a safe bet that if Alaska comes within range of North Korean missiles, she'd do her preemptive duty and whip those Stalinists back to the Stone Age. Same with Iran, because no one would dare harm the Chosen People on Sarah's watch. After all, it's against her religion to stand idly by if Israel is attacked.
Just ask her friend the Chabad Rabbi of Alaska. And a thousand rabbis like him who have long since determined that America and Israel need leaders who take their Bible seriously. Like Sarah Palin.
And that's what liberal Jews can't stand most of all.
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Would they have voted, ever, for anyone but a liberal democrat?
No?
Then why do we bother listening to what they think of Palin?
It's called "shiksappeal" !
Big surprise. Liberal Jews are first and foremost well...liberal.
Because one (R) trumps a pair of x chromosomes.
“Sarah’s husband doesn’t even have an MD, PhD, or JD attached to his name. He works with his hands. He’s a fisherman and an oil field worker in that North Slope region where those greedy oil tycoons and their Republican henchmen want to drill for oil and disrupt caribou mating habits. Unlike the feminists’ gentle, progressive, modern (i.e., submissive) husbands, he probably drinks Budweiser, watches NASCAR, shovels his own driveway, and doesn’t know what it’s like when your stockbroker or shrink goes away on vacation to the Hamptons for a week. “
This is my husband to a T and he supports me and my career! He is proud of the name I make for myself in the corporate world and I am sick of the idea that if you are manly in anyway, you are a wifebeater. That you can only support women if you are some sort of “Yes Dear” metrosexual.
Time to break those stereotypes once and for all!
Overly long article...why not just call them what they really are... rich snobs who don’t realize their own poverty. This is why most of America relates instantly w/ Sarah, shes one of us!
Perhaps of greater interest to others are the comments Muthee makes before calling Palin to the stage.Ranting about "Jewish Bankers". Lovely."God wants us, wants to penetrate in our society, is in the economic area," Muthee says. "The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity, running the economics of our nations. That's what we are waiting for. That's part and parcel of transformation. If you look at the -- you know -- if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today."
These poor New York Jews are still living in the Holocaust years they need someone like bama to wake their butts up to what will happen to them if he is elected they must love the concentration camps..My gosh people he sat in a Church for 20 years hearing the hate stuff from his pastor about Jews and Christians..
And that's what liberal Jews can't stand most of all.
Ouch. And pretty much could be applied to a whole lot of liberals across the board.
George Jonas explained this, not just of Jewish women, but the so called educated feminists, and he says it far better than I could:
“Let’s fine-tune this. There are two kinds of feminists: Those who want to see the presidency available to women, and those who want to see the presidency available to card-carrying, licensed and agenda-certified female feminists. No accidental, willy-nilly women need apply. Sen. McCain’s choice made the second kind livid.
In the space of one weekend, Gov. Palin caused the sisterhood to metamorphose into veritable replicas of Boticelli’s Madonna. The wounded cry, “But what about the children?” echoed all over the land. The feminist housefrau emerged like a butterfly from the caterpillar of the professional woman. Overnight, a trickle of motherhood in feminism’s mainstream turned into a torrent. Ardent besiegers of the glass ceiling, who only a day before were set to eviscerate anyone who dared to suggest that women couldn’t shift gears between career and family”
If you didn’t read Proust, if you didn’t sacrifice family and friends for “enlightenment” then they don’t want to hear from you. Palin is what the 60s would have produced if not for the liberal insanity.
Sarah represents good women, good values, no lost time or dignity. I support Sarah, but I can’t say the same for the ladies next to me at services.
It’s the abortion and war issue. Many liberal Jews are pro-abortion. Also, many liberal Jews are against war. Part of their past is the holocaust and it seems they believe nobody should have to go through that.
Excellent.
Sane!
Unlike that other woman candidate Sarah did not ride on her cheating husband’s coattails.
Gee as a Reform Jew I am very excited about Sara! But I have to agree with the writer of the article. The issue that many reform (liberal) Jews are whining about is here evangelical roots. They hate the fact that she has them. But on the other hand Dr. Dobson loves her background.
From my radar screen I think that 45% or more of the jewish voting population will vote McCain.
Regarding praying for victory, I'm not aware of what she said regarding victory in war, though no doubt she wants victory. The only quote I'm aware of was her correcting Charlie Gibson, "But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that's a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side."
I'm no religious scholar, but to me that is a more enlightened prayer to God than the prayers that seem to be more like begging God to give us things or make things go our way rather than asking Him to help us to do His will.
Except for preborn babies.
And in </Obama's> case, killing that is also very fine for even those babies who survive the first attempt on their life by being born alive.
Cordially,
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