Ha, ha, ha! Nice timing, Parker! Right after a liberal woman, Olympia Snowejob (RINO-Maine), just sold out the GOP.
Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina are both elitist jokes, like Arnold. Especially disgusting is Whitman, who couldn’t identify Van Jones as a communist.
These people are not conservative in world view; the are co-opters meant to further leftist ideology, issue by issue.
“I’ll run it better” should be replaced with “Tear down these walls!”
The liberal Democratic party press, including the Washington post, gives “helpful advice” to conservative Republicans. The advice is to be more liberal. They say close the “gender gap.” The gender gap, as they consider it, is that Republicans are not liberal enough to get their share of the women’s vote. They never mention the other gender gap: Democrats are not conservative enough to get their share of the men’s vote.
In this case, the Dems are correct for once. Fiorina wrought major havoc at H-P. Meanwhile, Palin had a highly successful tenure as governor of Alaska. But to the nitwit Parker, Fiorina is more qualified. Telling.
Uh, actually if the GOP wants to return to prominence, they would be better served to push some strong MEN to the forefront, and tell the weak-minded, mush-headed, Oprah-influenced emotional women to step aside. Seriously, the “men” currently out front in the GOP are the biggest bunch of wusses I have ever seen. They have all caved under the constant anti-male pressure and influence coming from the mainstream media and culture. As women have had more influence in America, the country has slipped further and further.
Witness the foul stench of identity politics wafting from Kathleen Parker.
Accepting the liberal premise of “we need more women” is what got us Obama.
Merit and achievement are what we conservatives recognize, not one’s gender or race.
I always enjoy reading Kathleen Parker. I know her best work is when she takes a mocking tone but this article was just dimwitted at best.
Does Parker really believe Meg Whitman has a snow balls chance in Hades of winning the governor’s seat in California?????? Honestly????? That’s dumb on top of dumb. Besides, Whitman’s running the kind of campaign that would make a dead man say “Wake me when it gets good.”
Meg McCain is also a fun little lady to read about. She’s, like, really energetic, like. And, like, she knows what the, like, pulse of the people really is, you know.
Kathleen Parker knows Meg McCain is a media creation. Who wouldn’t know? Even liberal republicans realize that Meg’s following is on tweeter and it’s populated with people who are in their early 20’s and, as of now, aren’t reliable voters for either party.
If Kathleen Parker thinks she can infuriate conservative republicans by poking Meg McCain in their eye, she needs to reevaluate her position because most of us are bored with Meg McCain. The reason we’re bored with Meg McCain is that little Meg is very vapid, like, you know, right.
Steve-B forgot to put the barf alert in the header. Would someone here please help him do this, I’m sure he meant to but just didn’t know how. Hey, maybe it’s hard to locate the barf alert? I’ll have to post an article myself and see how it works.
We hear over and over that the GOP can't recapture power until they reach out to this minority or that minority or this special interest etc. Similarly we are told that so long as the conservatives remain a predominently white middle-age male movement we will stay on the sidelines.
This POV encourages us to "change" our message to be more inclusive; to reach out to the various and sundry demographics in order to expand our base.
This POV is poison.
Our goal is a republic that represents all and protects the liberty of all. Our movement includes women, blacks, hispanics, Indians (both kinds) asians, etc. Our movement includes evryone that understands an encroaching gov. will destroy America.
Its the liberal that can't see people, but rather they want to pigeon hole everyone into a tribe, ie you're not an American; you're a Latina, or a gay man, or a senior or a.... fill in your own tribe.
We must reject this faulty logic at its outset. I like Sarah Palin, not because she's a womam and not in spite of fact that she's a woman, I like Sarah because of her ideas and ideals. Likewise w/ Drs Williams and Sowell and too many others, from every tribe on the planet, to name.
Each of us has a tribe that we dearly love but the mark of a civilized "person" is to see beyond our own narrow interests and to understand where true wisdom lies.
Oh, come on, women have more important things to do that go wallowing in politics with the pigs.
Or have we forgotten that? And does that explain why we’re in the mess we’re in?
Sarah. Recoil at the name, Kathleen, because she is your worst nightmare and our best hope.
In the last year, someone must have slipped Kathleen Parker a political, liberal mickey.
She doesn’t make sense anymore.
Her columns are like someone banging a gong every five minutes: Loud and annoying.
Geesh.
If that is the case, they are committing suicide. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are among many conservative women in this country. Women will support conservative women.
Liberals would have us all think that there are few conservative women in America. They try to do the same thing with black people. The fact is that many women and blacks are conservative, perhaps the majority in each case. But many think they are alone in their conservatism and lose their voice.
Americans need to see more conservative women and blacks, if conservatism is to become mainstream. The liberal press knows this and tries to kill off the influence of any conservative woman or conservative black person. If Kathleen Parker considers herself conservative, she is betraying her cause with this article.
Perhaps the politics of personal destruction was first practiced on Senator Joseph McCarthy. But the tool is still available. It has been used or attempted against Richard Nixon, John Ashcroft, George Allen, and now Sarah Palin. The only personal destruction that is more complete is actual assasination. What would be the impact of a President who was anti-communist? For example John Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan. What would be the impact of a President who was firmly pro-Israel? For example, Robert Kennedy.
I guess Kathleen has to sell out conservatism periodically in order to get published by the Washington Post. A bit like George Will with ABC and Newsweek.
Parker and Noonan, et.al., are an embarrassment to real women.
Kathleen, first, we’ve had some fairly strong, intelligent women rise to prominent positions in the GOP and the conservative movement (including, yes, Sarah Palin), and as wonderful as it is, it’s not the panacea you seem to think. We got crap for it, and the women themselves got crap for it (definitely including Sarah Palin).
Second, if you’re going to cast the advent of women in GOP politics as the pros taking over, it might help if you could come up with better than one woman in four (Liz Cheney) who’s ever worked in a high government position.
Third, if you’re going to argue that there are women in the GOP that can and should overshadow Sarah Palin, it might help if you can come up with even one in four who can actually do it. Again, Liz Cheney is the only one who comes close.
Fourth and finally...discussing the women who should be stars in the GOP and on the right and trying not to include Sarah Palin is like discussing the great players of the NBA over the last few decades and trying to leave out Michael Jordan.
Snowe and Collins just got done signing the Health Communist Manifesto.
Not just no, but AWWW HELLL NOOOO.....