[Pokey78]

[Tax-chick]

This woman's issues: defense, gun rights, tax relief, pro-life. 'Rats make me sick!

[Lady Jag]

Pokey, thanks for the ping. Mark, thanks for the translation. It's a rare paper where a conservative doesn't have to read between the lines.

[Amelia]

hmmm. Well, this woman has some issues. My issues including keeping the country safe for my children and grandchildren, and letting us all keep more of the money we earn. In fact, if the government would let me keep enough of my money, I'd be glad to take care of my own retirement and health care.

I can think of a few more priorities I have, but I doubt they'd be considered "women's issues" - I'm not interested in the right to kill my unborn children, and I never depended on the government to feed my children or provide child care for them, for instance.

[ProudGOP]

Can I get on your Stein ping list?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the post and ping, Pokey !

Now Judy is all a-twitter because Nancy Pelosi has become the first woman in Congress to be elected party leader.

Who cares? Just about the least interesting thing about Pelosi is that she's a woman. What's interesting is that she's a Haight-Ashbury leftist who voted against war with Iraq. That's likely to prove more relevant in the two years ahead than whether she looks better in a bikini than Walter Mondale. What is a ''women's issue'' anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there's one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it's the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I'd say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women's issue.

[Mercat]

Please put me on your ping list for this guy. He's great.

[speekinout]

The "women's issues" crowd are the protestors from the 60's and early 70's. Abortion is an issue to them, because they remember when birth control was hard to come by (the pill was not generally available, and condoms were sold in men's rooms in sleazy joints), and abortions were done in back alleys, sometimes with disastrous consequences. Of course, prior to DNA testing, many men could escape responsibility for a child.
They're also against the war in Nam (and all wars are equal to Nam in their minds).
They're also against the limits on job opportunities for women and Blacks that existed when they were young.

They're caught in a time warp. "Women's issues" are more aptly "issues 60+ women had 25+ years ago". Younger women don't relate to those issues any more than most women alive today relate to the fight to get the right to vote.
There was a problem; it's been fixed, now get over it!

[mrustow]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks, Pokey =^)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn, the MASTER, MEGA PING!!

[Airborne Longhorn]

Hey, Poke! Add my name to the list of those ever-thankful for your ping courtesy!

Best to all my fellow FReepers this fine Monday morning!

[Tares]

Thanks for the bump.