Too much RIPpin’ of a RAT!
I certainly didn’t agree with her politics, but she was always a classy, very classy, lady! RIP!
I remember one appearance on FOX when she looked very feeble. The few times I saw her after that, it was obvious she was not healthy in spite of the lighting and makeup.
She kept going until the end. She took few hard hits from the left for during the last Presidential Campaign. As always, she stuck to her guns, and was consistent in her political beliefs.
May she rest in peace.
cant say I agreed with her on anything but she was NOT evil(like, oh lets say, the current admin.).
RIP Geraldine...
Never agreed with her politics, but somehow I found myself liking her. She seemed to be a decent person.
RIP, Ms. Ferraro
Pt being, he would receive emails/letters from Ms. Ferraro as she suffered from the same blood disease as his mom.. in his mom's last days, she volunteered to be the guinea pig for the well known drug Thalidomide, in pill form, which was immediately after used on Ferraro to keep her alive for 10 plus years.
My cousin said he picked the medication up at the airport as was flown in; and delivered it to the Brunswick, Maine hospital oncology unit where his mom's last days were. His mom said to him when he got to the hospital "What do I do now". My cousin said: "you just take the pill". She wanted to save other women was an activist in her own right, he said. She then responded in jest: "I guess I do not have to worry about getting pregnant". She died a few days later. He said the drug made her "perky" as so he described. The drug they knew would not help his mom..but if this one test showed promise it could allow countless others to live longer lives. I am sure it was tweaked over time. Ferraro would continue to write my cuz and thank him for what his mom had done in testing the treatment. He told me he never really thought of her as a Democrat [he being an R], as some will always focus on here, which I can see from reading; but a woman with cancer whom he got to know through their shared correspondence on her disease.
Ferraro died from pneumonia. I am sure Ms. Ferraro also continued the fight my cousin's mom first crusaded in her initial test to extend the lives of countless others.
I never knew all this til today.
Geraldine Ferraro was truly a trailblazer. Although it is commonplace nowadays for a woman to be in serious competition for a slot on the presidential ticket (at either the top or the bottom), that was not always the case. And in 1984, it was a very big deal for a woman to be a part of a major-party presidetial ticket.
Nonetheless, I am glad that Ronald Reagan won re-election, as his views were considerably closer to mine than Walter Mondale's views were.
But to return to the point: Geraldine Ferraro seemed like a decent and gracious human being. It is sad to see that she has departed the earthly scene.