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Why women are (or are not) reading Sarah Palin
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| December 2, 2009
| Marjorie Kehe
Posted on 12/02/2009 9:03:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I would especially like to hear from Lady FReepers and Lurkers on this one. Thanks.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder if this is actually true.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:06:45 PM PST
by
Deagle
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This ridiculous debate will continue. Obviously, if it were a lib woman, like Hillary, they would say that she has 100% support of women. But, as she is a conservative, with great appeal to all, then they need to attack her with pointless stuff like this. That’s my feeling, anyway.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:08:42 PM PST
by
ABQHispConservative
(A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...women respond to Sarah Palin the way they did to the head cheerleader in high school." Oh, spare me.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:10:09 PM PST
by
oprahstheantichrist
(The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The women who try to claim Hillary was smart and had to work for everything she got while things were just handed to Sarah Palin have it exactly back-asswards. Nobody ever handed Sarah $100,000 in cattle future profits on a $1,000 investment. Nobody appointed her co-president and nobody allowed her to carpetbag right into a U.S. Senate seat.
She was narrowly elected governor and had to buck people in her own party, raise her own money and do her own campaigning to get there.
Yeah, Hillary was sandbagged by the enemedia when they went all out to elect ObaMao-- but that was one time. Sarah has put up with and overcome far worse sandbagging all her life. Don't try to tell me which one is smarter and which one had to work harder, because it isn't the carpetbagger currently from New York which has had to trudge uphill and against the wind all her political career.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:14:30 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...Pretty and popular, with no apparent interest in studying, shes the one who industrious girls were tacitly promised would not succeed in the real world, writes Belkin.Whether we voted for Hillary or not, we werent about to let Palin breeze in, with her sexy librarian hair and her peekaboo-toed shoes, conforming to every winking, air-brained stereotype, and sashay to the front of the line...."
This is from the same type of people who idolize a frivolous dumb lightweight like Gloria Steinhem, but passionately detest an accomplished and brilliant woman like Phyllis Schlafly.
The type who read the New York Times.
And the type who write for it.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:14:40 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin—”she is not smart”.
I can’t stand that statement. as compared to whom? The other VP candidate in the 2008 race? Joe Biden? Puhleeze.
Where is she “not smart”?. Ask a lib that question and they can’t answer it.
That’s OK. Like I told someone tonight—they will just have to get used to saying “President Palin”.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:15:47 PM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The "Lisa Belkin" in question...
'nuff said.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:17:03 PM PST
by
OldDeckHand
(Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
To: OldDeckHand
I hope everyone here understands that when you see a Professional Head Shot Photo of an Author, it is the best one of the bunch.
Nuff said...
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:21:56 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(All Democrats weren't Slave Owners, but all Slave Owners were Democrats)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Eilene Zimmerman, writing for True/Slant, says she sees an even more basic reason for women (or men) to dismiss Palin: [S]hes simply not smart. And yet Zimmerman has trouble reconciling that perception with this fact: Shes sold a million books in two weeks.Well Ms. Zimmerman, if Palin isn't smart, what does that make a nobody like you? Hmm?
I've noticed that many of the people who dislike Palin do so without regard for the facts.
They either ignore her record, or resort to predjudices about her being female, attractive or not part of the establishment.
Especially women, from my personal experiences. My opinion on that is - it's a lot of envy.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:22:54 PM PST
by
airborne
(As long as Muslims are a "protected species", all Americans are an "endangered species".)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As the mother of a special needs child, Saran Palin and I belong to an exclusive club. As for the not smart part, for a woman who isn’t particularly smart, I say, she’s been able to become governor on her own merit, and she didn’t even need to stay married to a cheating husband to get there.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:24:18 PM PST
by
psjones
(u)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Love the quote from the RINOette Lisa Copeland:
Of course, there are others who insist that, in the long run, Going Rogueis too short on substance to help Palin, at least in a political sense. In her piece Belkin quotes Lisa Copeland, a lifelong Republican and Texas native, who is a founder of a nonprofit group, the Project 19 Foundation, to move more women into political and professional leadership roles.
When [Palin] gave her convention speech, I sat in my living room and wept, Copeland told Belkin. She was my age, she looks like me. I really thought she would save the party. But then, she says, Palin began to talk. She embarrasses me.
RINOs and RINOettes embarrass me every time they open their pie holes to opine.
... and who the heck is Eileen Zimmerman?... and why should we care what the hag thinks about Palin?
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:26:26 PM PST
by
antceecee
(Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin is made of steel. She has heart and drive and a true understanding of America and Americans. The things that she's had to endure would make the majority of people wilt. She has
what it takes to get the job done. Women can be like vultures; anyone that doesn't 'conform' to their little outlook they swoop in and pick apart.
Women are jealous, vicious and petty and really direct that toward other women that are 'doers' or those that show independence. There's no reason for these vicious attacks on Sarah Palin but the better we get to know her, the more foolish those attackers appear (men included).
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:30:05 PM PST
by
Outlaw Woman
(If the First Amendment is taken away, we will be forced to move on to the next Amendment)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone who thinks that Sarah Palin is not smart is herself not smart. What she is not is an intellectual, but intellectuals are often not smart—being better critics than doers.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:30:18 PM PST
by
RobbyS
(Pray with the suffering souls.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin, unjustly, allows Republican women to feel less guilty for letting strangers raise their kids.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:31:36 PM PST
by
donna
(Sarah Palin: The Feminist ideal comes to fruition in the Republican Party. Betty Friedan laughs.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:31:39 PM PST
by
Roberts
To: 2ndDivisionVet
CSM is very liberal.
- JP
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:32:31 PM PST
by
Josh Painter
("We cannot spare this woman. She fights" - David Karki re: Sarah Palin)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...we werent about to let Palin breeze in, with her sexy librarian hair and her peekaboo-toed shoes, conforming to every winking, air-brained stereotype, and sashay to the front of the line. "
Are these the critera that typical women use to decide the vote?
If shoes and hair styles will determine who will run the country, then we're doomed.
That means the author is pro-hillary because she thinks she is prettier than hillary. High school bull$h!+. Grow up lady.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:33:48 PM PST
by
FrankR
(SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
To: Vigilanteman
"The women who try to claim Hillary was smart and had to work for everything she got while things were just handed to Sarah Palin have it exactly back-asswards" I think they share one significant thing in common - their respective public personas are owed completely to other men. In Hilary's case, it's her husband, and in Palin's case it's John McCain. Neither would be where they are today without those men in their lives. Of that, there can be no argument.
Perhaps Hilary would have made it on her own. After all, she was an accomplished attorney before she traded her legal briefs for kitchen aprons in the Governor's mansion. So, I suppose it's possible she could have built her own national political career.
And, Palin had made it to the position of chief executive of her state. But, it was a very sparsely populated state, with total inhabitants less than a medium sized city. She was, for all practical purposes, complete unheard of until just a week (or so) before McCain picked her.
They both made their name trading off someone elses' fame. Why some women hold that against Palin, and not against Hilary, is really anybody's guess.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:36:44 PM PST
by
OldDeckHand
(Obamacare - So bad, even Joe Lieberman isn't going to vote for it.)
To: Vigilanteman
And Palin, after being elected Governor in 2006, still drove herself to work in her ten year old Volkswagon Jetta.
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posted on
12/02/2009 9:37:17 PM PST
by
JApost
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