Why Sarah Palin Makes Women Cringe
John McCain may have thought he would win over women voters with his choice of Sarah Palin, but he was so wrong. Especially since all the housewives women who vote for whoever their husbands (or clergymen) tell them to, were already going to vote for McCain anyway. Free-thinking women wouldn’t dream of voting for a candidate like Palin, man or women, that stands strongly opposed to issues that improve the lives of women. Sarah Palin is no hero for modern women of any age!
I hesitate to get into politics on this blog, but I work every day to empower women and strive for them to succeed professionally and personally. Seeing every cliche about women play out with Sarah Palin’s nomination is beyond disappointing. The Sarah Palin choice was a giant step backward for women. When an unqualified and unsuitable woman candidate is put forward in any organization, the repercussions of her failure endure.
Sarah Palin was obviously a mistake, and since the shock value of the announcement wore off, she has only become a liability. I was convinced she would withdraw from the campaign before November for “Personal Reasons”, but the more that comes out against her, the more McCain digs in.
Here is a shortlist of the absurdities:
- The only thing Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have in common are their XX chromosomes. She doesn’t stand a chance of picking up HIllary supporters.
- The Republicans underestimate women, assuming any skirt woman will do.
- Women cope with a lot of guilt in their lives, but women will not feel guilty voting against this particular woman. Yes, we’ve waited a long time, but she is not “The One”.
- Sarah Palin is completely unqualified for this job or to be President, she would never have been considered if she was a man!
- The top quality of Sarah Palin’s that people recognize and agree on is that she is photogenic.
- Sarah Palin using her newborn with down syndrome as a badge of honor demonstrating her opposition to abortion in all circumstances, even incest and rape, is repulsive.
- Spinning the teenage pregnancy of her daughter into another anti-abortion story is really too much. I do not judge her daughter for getting pregnant, it only reinforces the fact that it should be a private choice without interference from a government of morality police.
- She does not represent Modern Women in her strong stance against birth control and her preaching of abstinence.
- Sarah Palin must have seemed like a safe pick because she married her sweetheart and is a mother of five. No chance of affairs or scandals? Not exactly. Investigation already pending…
- The biggest cringe factor is to see her standing on stage talking about shattering the glass ceiling, while if elected, she would single-handedly put the struggle for women’s rights back 40 years!
Finally, please throw her to the wolves! Why is everyone being so polite, nice and gentle with her? If she were a man, her lack of experience and incompetence would have been ripped to shreds. She is being presented as tough and rugged and as a gun enthusiast, she is even armed after all, so throw off the gloves andlet her take it like a real woman!
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You’re title should’ve read “Why Sarah Palin makes LIBERAL Women Cringe.” Was your obsurdity list faxed directly from the DNC? Obama looked at Palin as a Godsend - it took a little focus off of the gaping holes in his resume. I’ll concede that she would have never been picked if she was a man, but you will have to concede, if you’re even close to being honest with yourself (hard for a liberal), that there is no way a white man with Obama’s lack of experience would be the Dem’s choice. Just another double standard for the left. Palin knocked it out of the park the other night, exposing the Democratic ticket as all show and no substance. More later. Love ya sis.
The picture that you put up sums it all up in that “picture worth a thousand words way.” I know of no woman (especially one wearing a skirt without pantyhose) who would sit on a dead bear.
Real women don’t hunt, they give looks that kill.
(Latest insight from my mother, apparently Mrs. Palin married her high school sweetheart because she, too, had baby-on-board before the wedding.)
Nobama,
Millions of people voted for Obama in the primaries, so he was not a party “pick” like Palin. I know for sure that I did not vote for him only because he is black and I surely wasn’t the only one. As far as I know, there is not anyone outside of Alaska that has voted for Sarah Palin.
Suzy
Go Sarah go!!! This airhead bimbo will guarantee Obama’s election.
She’s such a dope it’s astonishing! Did you see her on TV?? What a maroon!
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Way to go, GOP
From the same guys that brought you the foreign policy blunder of the century, the bungled Katrina disaster, and the shreeding of the Constitution… may be introduce the least-qualified person ever to be nominated as Vice President!
Now THAT’S a claim to fame.
I suspect the cringe factor is largely due to her non conformance stance in respect to projected feminist issues. She appears to be rather broad minded and not constrained by 60/ 70’s thinking. Actually, shes probably rather ahead of her time. What an inspiraton, an attractive well motivated woman free of all the baggage many have picked up over a generation or so.
Brett,
To say that Sarah Palin is broad minded is one of the broadest exaggerations ever. It could not possibly be true about a woman who has managed to live on this planet for more than 40 years without giving much of a thought to world issues until 5 weeks ago. As far as being an inspiration, perhaps she is to Britney Spears, who now believes she could be President or at least VP and they speak the same language!
Suzy