Posted on 10/21/2008 7:23:11 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
HENDERSON, Nev. -- Extolling the virtues of equal pay and opportunity for women, this afternoon GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin framed her White House quest in terms of feminist values.
"I have a question for the women in the audience," the Alaska governor began her speech here at the Henderson Pavillion, underneath an arching white tent. "Are you willing to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America?"
Palin surrounded herself onstage with two higher-profile defectors from Sen. Hillary Clinton's camp -- Lynn Rothschild, a member of the Democratic Platform Committee, and Elaine Lafferty, a former editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine -- along with Shelly Mandell, the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, Linda Klinge, the vice president of Oregon's NOW chapter and Prameela Bartholomeusz, a small business owner and member of the Democratic National Platform Committee. The L.A. chapter of NOW has endorsed Palin's bid.
"Our opponents think they have the women's vote all locked up, which is a little presumptuous," she said, as the crowd's roar of approval drowned her out. "A little presumptuous, and only our side has a woman on the ticket."
Palin went on to suggest Obama discriminated against women employees in his own Senate office, as opposed to GOP presidential nominee John McCain.
"I know one senator who does pay women equal pay," she added, referring to McCain.
While she credited feminists with the enactment of Title IX -- saying, "We owed that opportunity to women, to feminists who came before us" -- Palin quickly emphasized that Americans who embraced a different ideology could also push for gender equality. "A belief in equal opportunity is not just the cause of feminists. It's the creed of our country."
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Any your point is??? Being Gov or VP or even Prez is not infantry combat. Such an executive makes the key appointments and then refs the staff conflicts and makes some final decisions. They need to read and study and stay in touch with real people including babies.
Palin for Prez I say!
Glad you’re seeing the light. :P
Loved all the classy comments posted on the Washington Post’s website. KOSickos and DUmmies out in full force.
I’m not really defending it. We shouldn’t have needed it, just like we shouldn’t have needed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The fact that we did represents a huge failure ... not something to really celebrate.
The important thing is that those days are now gone. The question now is not to dwell on those past things but how do we move forward. Palin is clearly pandering by looking backward at Title IX with rosy glasses, but she’s in this to WIN. I can appreciate that.
I, myself, am ambivalent about Title 9. What is the solution? I don't know, but I do agree that athletic programs should not just be supported and promoted for male athletes.
Feminazis have always been pat ‘n passel of the radical-lib establishment and when Palin appears with them she only lends them more credence. Then to parrot their standard lines—why??? And praise for Hillary—??? Oh, hell. This is too much.
Tell Trig his mommy is a baby kill fem nazi.
Oh well, I’m done feeding trolls tonight.
Ah, I see. The feminist interpretation is that only a man wins a hollow victory if he gains the world at the price of his own soul. Women get a pass.
This is campaign RHETORIC in a swing state. We need votes. Beyond some political talk let’s look at what really counts...
Is Palin...
Pro-Life
Pro-Gun owner
Anti-faggot marriage and adoptions
Pro-military
Willing to veto
Pro-fence
Yes, she is right on every decisive issue!!!! We have a gift. Be thankful!!!! Quit being grumpy and get to work to keep the Obamesiah out of the White House.
What an overreaction.
Nowhere did I call Palin a “feminazi”. I said we have differences. Sheesh, we can’t even point out these differences without people going over the edge. And now taking the conservative position is being a troll? Stop it.
Hey, it’s equality of a sort is it not?
I said this -
“Yes Palin is clearly a huge flaming liberal the whole party is clearly making a tectonic shift to the left. /s”
You said this -
“Glad you’re seeing the light. :P”
You think she is a flaming liberal, no?
And yes several Palin haters are trolling these threads tonight.
To quote a friend, news like that shows us that “a third party is really the only way.”
“I gather the McCain campaign is trying to make a push for women voters who perhaps sided with Hillary Clinton during the primaries.”
You will find them here..
http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net
Title IX was about WAY MORE than sports !!!!
People really need to read it and understand what it was about.
Sorry, I’m not getting at you personally because so many people make this mistake. This is a pet peeve of mine. People do not know what Title IX was about and just parrot the sports thing over and over and over because that’s all they’ve heard about it.
Hey, I’d like to know if someone does not vote for Palin does that make that person a chauvinist?
I don’t know that we ‘have a gift’. Reaching across the aisle, bipartisan solutions, pandering to those with radically opposite intentions, where’s the benefit? I would like to hear about the illegal immigration mess, taxes & the economy, and massive voter registration fraud all over the country courtesy of ‘Bama and ACORN. Probably the NOW bunch will all vote Dem most likely for Hillary. Palin should know better than to be used like this.
No, she's conservative on several issues, as we all know. But she likes big government spending, and she champions some feminist causes. For some reason, no one wants to discuss the differences we should have with her. Mostly everyone here was willing to trash McCain. (Hey, I didn't vote for him, either.) But they give this woman a pass. Then whenever she communicates a RINO/Dem position, people blame it on McCain. It's bizarre.
True, one report said the women on McCain’s staff actually make more than the men.
Fact is we catch a lot more voters with honey than vinegar and some will stick around.... we are, after all, a big tent party.
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