'nuff said.
Posted on 12/02/2009 9:03:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“When women talk about Palin,” points out Lisa Belkin, “it’s not just politics, it’s personal.” No kidding. And that at least partially explains the fervor of Palin fans like cousins Nicole Colter and Stephanie Jefferson who drove 4-1/2 hours (Colter) or flew six hours (Jefferson) to Springfield, Mo., to get Palin to autograph their copies of “Going Rogue” and then to hear her speak at the College of the Ozarks.
But Belkin, who published a piece called “Why Women Can’t Let Sarah Palin Go” in The New York Times, sees at least as much animosity as admiration in the female response to Palin. She believes that hardworking, educated women respond to Sarah Palin the way they did to the head cheerleader in high school. (Even though in fact Palin was not a cheerleader but the captain of her high_school basketball team.)
“Pretty and popular, with no apparent interest in studying, she’s 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 weren’t 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.”
And yet, she admits, “Which is not to say we didn’t like her for a moment. We were intrigued by this woman who could govern a state and raise five children and field-dress a moose; who seemed to do what the rest of us could not manage – to have it all.”
Eilene Zimmerman, writing for True/Slant, says she sees an even more basic reason for women (or men) to dismiss Palin: “[S]he’s simply not smart.” And yet Zimmerman has trouble reconciling that perception with this fact: “She’s sold a million books in two weeks.”(continued)
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I wonder if this is actually true.
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.
Oh, spare me.
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.
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.
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”.
'nuff said.
Nuff said...
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.
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.
Love the quote from the RINOette Lisa Copeland:
Of course, there are others who insist that, in the long run, “Going Rogue”is 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?
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).
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.
Sarah Palin, unjustly, allows Republican women to feel less guilty for letting strangers raise their kids.
bump
CSM is very liberal.
- JP
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.
And Palin, after being elected Governor in 2006, still drove herself to work in her ten year old Volkswagon Jetta.
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