Typical male response! I am serious. Look at the way Sarah Palin was treated? Hillary too!
if you are serious,
then why did you post this
stupid?
True. If your name is John Edwards the MSM turns their heads when you have an affair.
If your name is Sarah Palin, they’ll roast you over clothes shopping.
If those are your examples, and if you are serious, aren't you complaining to the wrong people, i.e., on the wrong forum?
Sarah Palin got unfair treatment, but she took it like and adult and fought back admirably and with humor. Was it unfair?
Sure.
But the best thing about Sarah Palin and conservatives in general, is that when we get into a situation, we occasionally blame others a little as is human nature, but our focus is almost always along the lines of "What can I do better?" to deal with it.
Ms. Palin isn't a made-up (and self-made) populist in the mold of someone like Abraham Lincoln (and on the other end of that spectrum, Al Gore with his ridiculous "cleaning out the hog pens" fairy tale.)
She genuinely has a lot of characteristics WE can relate to. I have a few things that stuck out at me from watching her this election. To me, they were important because they were absolutely things someone cannot fake, the tone of the voice, the look on the face...
Before Halloween, when their campaign bus stopped to buy pumpkins, Sarah gave the guy a pumpkin to buy, and Piper, standing next to her began to tug at Sarah's pant leg. Sarah, with the practiced look of someone who has done it a lot, put her hand on Piper's back, and leaned down and in to listen to what Piper was trying to say. Her head jerked back, and she said "Piiiiper! An even BIGGER one? How many pumpkin pies can you bake?!!!"
That was priceless. Do a search on Piper Palin and Pumpkin.
The second, was after her acceptance speech at the RNC, and this is what I observed at the time, comparing her to Hillary Clinton:
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"...It is clear she dislikes men. But what REALLY gives her away (and the radical feminists by extension) is the spectacle of the fake affection she has shown towards her husband, simply accepting it as a personal cost to her as she grasps for power. The the contempt she holds him in (and richly deserved in my opinion) is real which makes her willingness to prostitute herself (along with any shreds of principle she may have retained) in order to gain and keep power, a particularly egregious insult.
Quite a difference from Sarah Palin.
The sound of Hillary saying "... "I'm not sitting here as some little woman 'standing by my man' like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together..." has all the feminine charm of a chainsaw cutting through a large plastic log.
Now.
I just want to paint a contrast here. And folks...this is the part that really made me smile, because it will be such a boon for our country if she can deal a deadly blow to Radical Feminism. If she does, she may cripple the feminist movement in the same way Joseph McCarthy crippled the Communist movement in this country. He made it disreputable.
This is what Sarah Palin may do to free millions of young girls and women from the societal influence of the bitter brand of feminism that has tried to destroy the family and drive a wedge between men and women. I believe that Radical Feminism has been one of the most powerful negatively eroding forces in our country since the middle of the Sixties. A very destructive, divisive and wasteful ideology.
One would read this and wonder how on earth Sarah Palin could destroy the Feminist movement. What would her "weapon" be?
Ironically enough, her Femininity.
She likes men, and it is evident she has real respect and affection for her husband. When one is forced to watch leftist junk on television showing fathers as being contemptible, incompetent, idiotic boobs, you would think American Husbands are the lowest form of life on earth, surpassed only by men in general. (Brent Bozell has written brilliantly and insightfully on this viewpoint.)
THIS is what struck me during her acceptance speech.
Did anyone else hear this during Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, when she talked about her husband:
Todd is a story all by himself.
He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy.
In the same breath she ended speaking, even though the camera was on her husband and not her, I thought I heard something in that moment when she stopped talking. I heard, just barely above the threshold low enough to miss it... a giggle. A real, giggle. Just four little heh-heh-heh-hehs under the breath, almost as if she tried to keep them bottled up inside of her chest, so everyone there wouldn't hear it. She involuntarily giggled to herself almost completely inaudibly, but the sensitive microphone picked it up. I went back and listened to it on Youtube, and sure enough...it was an affectionate, genuine giggle of a girl for a guy.
As a man, it was a wonderful thing to hear. It was very feminine, from a woman who sees nothing wrong with femininity, who didn't view her "guy" as a contemptible enemy..."
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It was genuine. The last was Piper grooming her baby brother's hair on national television. That said volumes about their family. They were as real as it gets.
We would have been fortunate indeed to have her as a Vice President.
You’re whacked. sarah palin was the only reason that got me and a lot of other guys to vote for McCain.
Don’t look at a few pissy little rumors about infighting from unnamed sources and believe it’s gospel or that it’s all about men vs women. You’re wrong. It’s about philosophy. The moderate RINOs vs conservatives. It’s not about genitalia.
I'm a woman, a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter.
If women want to get ahead in the world of politics, they will have to take their lumps with the men. Some people made fun of McCain because he's old. Some people made fun of Biden because he's bald. Some people made fun of Obama because of his name or his race.
Fair? No, but politics aren't fair.
We live in a brutal world. If women can't hack it, they'll never make it.
If you'll notice, Sarah Palin seems largely unphased by the whole process. She understands that to get ahead in politics, you roll with the punches.
Anyone who demands special treatment isn't worthy of the office they seek.