I am going to link to something on Huffington Post. What’s more (and worse), I am linking to something that is very critical of John McCain, without countering the specifics. I hate to do this, but it’s to make a greater point: that what the left is doing to Sarah Palin is wrong. It also goes against what they have been saying for years – that they are the ones who care about women.
Today, Hilary Rosen posted about Sarah Palin.
Warning! This pundit isn’t feeling the same way as most of my colleagues about Sarah Palin. She is being attacked for her lack of experience for the job and for whether she should be putting her family first instead of her career. This just isn’t that unusual in my book. And the more it goes on, the more uncomfortable I feel with that message.
I am a woman who someone took a chance on several years ago and gave me a job that had only previously been done by old white guys. Experience? How do you get any if no one takes a chance on you? And the decision to take a chance can be instinctive, as John McCain said. Sure it was a gimmick. But would we feel better if it was Tim Pawlenty? What someone does on a small scale can be a good indicator of what they do on a large scale. So suggesting that she would do any worse than the host of guys who have auditioned for the job isn’t that compelling an argument to me. And what about the argument that she is a negligent mother who will be distracted from her important role. I am a mother who constantly feels the pressure from others about whether I am fit to be a parent, whether I put my kids first often enough and whether my son with learning disabilities gets enough of my attention. Who has the right to to judge my family?
My grandmother always said “You can’t tell time on someone else’s clock”. Judgments about people’s personal lives are better left unsaid and unrealized.
What the left and the media (same difference) is doing to Sarah Palin most women can relate to because they have had to endure it, in one form or another, in their own lives. And it stinks.
I never thought of Sarah Palin as being able to pick up any Hillary Clinton votes, what with the totally different views and all, but if the Democrats keep this up, they just might push some moderate women away, and to the side of Sarah Palin.
But whatever the election outcome, this clearly illustrates what us conservative women knew all along, that just because one supports abortion on demand and pays lip service to “women’s issues,” does not mean that one is not a complete sexist pig.
And when it comes to respecting women, only the right kind of women deserve respect.
Even Barack Obama himself chose to belittle Sarah Palin by comparing his current position to her former position.
My understanding is that Governor Palin’s town, Wasilla, has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. We have a budget of about three times that just for the month,” Obama said, in response to a question on CNN.
Except, she’s not the mayor of Wasilla; she’s the governor of the entire state.
Oh, and Barack, running for president does not make you qualified to be president. Besides, you are not the one managing the campaign or the budget.
This is going to backfire, big time. Women will see their own struggles with sexism in Sarah Palin and that is only going to hurt the Democrats.
The only question is how much.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I don’t suppose you’ve bothered to check her public record out.
Helped leave her hometown in debt during her stint as mayor, increased taxes, pursued pork (even projects McCain demeaned at the time), received money from the same corrupt group that Stevens is involved with, supported Steven’s bridge to nowhere until it became apparent the federal cash cow wasn’t going to deliver, has helped keep Alaska in the top three when it comes to federal handouts as compared to federal taxes paid into the system, used the state government to pursue family issues (that’s ‘trooper-gate’), has supported a secessionist political party in Alaska.
Instead of worrying about what the “others” are saying, I would suggest folks who self-identify with the Republican Party worry about why yet one more time they’re being lied to by their “leaders”.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Why don’t you suppose I’ve read all these things? I have. I don’t have the time right now to get into it, but anyone can look this stuff up and see it refuted on other conservative blogs.
This post was about the way the left is treating her and their sexism and condescension of women, especially when that woman is not the right kind of woman.
This blog is called “She’s Right” for a reason. I am a she. I was a single mom with a career when I registered this domain name. I have been and always will be a very strong and capable woman, who is deeply offended by sexism. Just because I think women should respect their bodies, their unborn children, and the power of motherhood by not having abortions for the sake of convenience, does not mean that I am not pro-woman.
This post is not about Sarah Palin; this post is about me. I am Sarah Palin.
September 4th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Charity (and I suspect you really aren’t Sarah Palin), you can make this out to be about sexism all you want … but that isn’t the case.
Candidates at all levels have been the subject of personal attacks regardless their gender. To claim this particular case is about womanhood ignores this reality.
But you would rather take a quote from Obama that specifically deals with Palins level of experience and turn it into a statement about her gender … you are as guilty (literally) as those you complain about.
Palin is a horrid choice because of her freely chosen associations, her political doings and her public statements. That’s my claim.
What makes her so darned good?
September 4th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Fair enough, Rama, fair enough. It is not enough to call foul over the attacks and I will also post about why I like her. I was going to anyway.
That does not change the fact that there is a double standard with her and it is because she is a woman. Call it what you want.
The “I am Sarah Palin” thing is sort of a movement. No, I am not really Sarah Palin. It is about being able to relate to her and how she is being treated.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
“refuted”?? Please, she was really for funding for the “Bridge to Nowhere” (both federal & state funding)…so much for fiscal conservatism. The other shoe has yet to drop on the “troopergate” thing, but we’ll find out more next month about that after the investigation proceeds. It’s a potential abuse of power scandal. Pain did, in fact, recieve money from some of the same corrupt Stevens funds…my understanding is that there was technically nothing illegal about that, but I might be mistaken. My understanding also is that it was her husband that was supportive of a “secessionist political party in Alaska” at some point in the past.
I fully understand why you’re taking this whole Palin thing so personally Charity…she is pretty much a Right-winger through and through just like you.