Posted on 01/20/2014 2:43:58 PM PST by Lorianne
Well said.
Reps better watch this crazy *i**h and run a good candidate or she’ll be the next gov.
Many families in today’s society have two parent working households. Heck, they existed since before I was a kid. There’s always been sacrifices made by both the mother and father.
I was fortunate in that I was able to stay home for 14 years but had to go back to work once my youngest was in kindergarten (and my “career” opportunities suffered for it.
My own Mom was home for the most part but really she worked outside the home even when my oldest brother was born in 1943 and my Dad was serving in WWII. She worked her entire life, just as my Dad did, but she was able to be home for the most part.
I was a stay at home mom for 14 years, but I also did home daycare for neighbors, for extra money and tutored for extra money. Once I had to go back to work full time, the opportunities weren’t there, unless I was willing to spend my kids after school hours working instead of taking them to practices, etc.
We all make choices. Some are due to income/expenses.
I chose mine until I couldn’t choose anymore and had to work. I feel sorry for some I know who want to stay home with their babies and toddlers and can’t because two incomes are needed.
Mom can’t have it all because someone has to care for the kids and historically it was the moms while the dads worked. Or the moms worked night work or otherwise to make ends meet.
I was fortunate my husband made enough for me to stay home for 14 years. But my two youngest haven’t really known me not working once they were in K and 2nd grade. But I was fortunate that I was able to work according to their school schedule so I worked when they were in school.
Sarah Palin also worked as a Mayor and Governor and it’s great. The left marginalizes that while they don’t with people like Wendy Davis or Hillary Clinton or countless others.
But the point is...a politically (or other) ambitious woman, democrat or republican, is held to standards that men aren’t.
If a woman shouldn’t subject her children to the sacrifices required then we have no argument about Palin or Haley or any female politician’s ambition v motherhood.
Davis had a husband who raised or is raising their kids. I think we need to find another focus on this.
The Palin family also had “scandals” which the left and MSM made sure to pound into the heads of the voters. Should we conclude that Sarah Palin’s political ambitions caused her daughter to have sex and get pregnant at 17? That Bristol hooked up with Levi because her mother wasn’t as focused on her life as she should have been?
We have to pick our battles and this isn’t one of them. imo.
We have the Kennedy family, dysfunctional to the extreme and held up as American Royalty and JFK as this great American President (the MSM does a good job) and we have a national holiday (MLK day) for a man who was a serial adulterer and not so peaceful as the MSM (along with countless others) would like us to believe.
Maybe the best thing for Wendy Davis’ children was being primarily raised by their father?
All I got was this.
WENDY DAVIS
v.
STAR-TELEGRAM OPERATING, LTD. d/b/a FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, STAR-TELEGRAM NEWSPAPER, INC., CAPITAL CITIES/ABC, INC., THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, and RICHARD L. CONNOR
No. 00-0861
Supreme Court of Texas
November 2, 2000
From Dallas County; 5th district (05-98-00088-CV, RULE 47.7, 07-07-00) as corrected and amended
Justice O'Neill not sitting
ORDER ON PETITION FOR REVIEW
PETITION FOR REVIEW IS DENIED
She must have fallen asleep in first year torts class.
Although with Harvard Law giving us Davis, Granholm, and Obama, I have to wonder.
There's plenty for Davis to attack strictly during her political career. That dumb lawsuit any 1L would know would fail is a good start. That shows her to be someone poor in her work and lacks good judgment (and IMO batbleep insane).
Thanks for taking that in good humor, Rita. Yer welcome :-)
wrt to the Palin family- lol you’re kidding.
Look. You two are determined to rationalize this woman’s behavior & self portrayal. Go ahead. I’m not trying to stop you, but I don’t agree with you.
It’s probably not that “scandalous” to most people, but that’s part of our problem. We give these people a pass/ cut them some slack/ rationalize their behavior & then get oh-so-butthurt when they’re as ethically challenged in office as they are in their personal lives.
Maybe she can come run for governor in your state(s).
Maybe you should run for high political office and see how many years and how much of your personal time it would take to actually achieve it.
Male, female, democrat, republican .... doesn’t matter.
It takes a hell of a lot of time to cultivate the connections needed to get it done. If you have kids, you’re just not going to have the time with them that others who don’t have those ambitions do.
I don’t care for Davis’ politics one bit, but this is not the item to criticize her on. How about her extreme abortion stance instead?
Sarah Palin should tell Wendy Davis to “man up”.
I agree. We’re witnessing a train wreck of this witch. The hits just keep coming, for Abortion Battie.
Looks like Reps are....news stories coming out about Battie, daily. And, we're running "a good candidate" for Gov. His name is AG Gregg Abbott.
You seem to have made my point as well as I could have, Lorianne.
Some people might infer that Ms Davis’ zealousness regarding abortion isn’t too surprising considering her disregard for her own children & commitments. That matters as it speaks to her character.
I wish you weren’t taking this so personally. Are you trolling me or do you just want to argue? I have told you that I am personally opposed to feminism & that I am not trying to change your mind.
Let us agree to disagree.
I’m not trolling you, I’m responding to your posts.
If you are honestly opposed to feminism then you are against any woman going into politics or business or academia.
That’s fine if that’s what you believe and it applies to all women, not just Democrat women. Palin was savaged by people on the left (and even some on the right) for running for high political office while she had young children and a baby.
My point is that men with high ambitions sacrifice family time as well ... and if the conservative line is that fathers are just as important as mothers to children and child rearing, and the father is simply not around because he is chasing high status positions, how is this materially different?
Actually, I am. Academia, not so much. Or nursing. Or even self employment, because that is generally something you *can* do & still take care of a family because they’re more flexible. Yes, applies to everyone. The Vice Presidency isn’t *that* demanding a job, so it was the left just scrounging for anything. State rep or local politics isn’t that bad, because it’s part time, too.
They do, but men have almost always (or used to) spent more time away from home, leaving the mom to hold down the fort & keep things under control. (This is no small task)
Maybe these days, but not even for high status. The reason my grandmother laughed at feminism was that she grew up on a ranch- her father & brothers would be gone, doing business, sometimes for several days & being the “baby”, she had to get the cattle in. She hated it (loved to ride, but was phobic about mountain lions), but when it’s just you, you do what has to be done, “women’s work” or not.
Hmm materially different? Maybe now days, not so much. But I guess, really, the issue is that kids are kind of left (or allowed) to fend for themselves too much. My mom worked- about half the time, 2 jobs, but she was always on top of what my friends & I were doing. That’s hard. I don’t know why anyone would choose that.
My problem with Wendy Davis is that she is portraying herself as this poor, sacrificing woman who “succeeded against all odds”- pushing this whole “war on women” thing & it’s not true. “White privilege” is a big thing on the left right now & Davis would be among the most “privileged”.
It’s not right for the thousands of women (& “minorities” BTW) who really did work their behinds off & succeeded, no matter what. If it *were* true, I would give her that, even if I don’t agree with her politics & respect her for it.
I confess that I am very, very cynical about the left (& getting worse) & sick of them. I’m not willing to give them that proverbial inch anymore.
We don’t seem to have the same problem cutting through the BS & culling the ones who aren’t what they profess to be.
Sure is fragile for someone who wants to be Governor of one of the largest states in the union.
If that was all she cost him, he may have considered her worth it. "Crazy in the head, crazy in the bed."
No they wouldn't. She's a Rat politician. They have immunity.
I like Abbott and will happily vote for him over abortion barbie any day.
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