And Hillary was a Goldwater Girl. If you’re a Republican, what have you done within the party, lately?

i’m also really wondering what your idea of the “right choices” are, and how sarah palin has made “right choices” and the “feminist left” does not.

She got educated. She married the father of her children and stayed with him. She obviously respects and supports him, and he does the same for her. She worked hard. She sustained herself with her personal responsibility and faith, not demanding that the government take care of her.

You seem to have selected women’s “issues” as your focus. Fine. Many voters limit themselves to narrow issues such as gay marriage, pro-choice, evangelical values, skin color or expanded socialism. Those voters have to choose who best fits their driving concerns. Sarah Palin is not promoting a separate feminist agenda.

Apparently, you favor the liberal feminist agenda. You will not be happy among conservatives in general. We do not favor holding women back, denying women’s health care, making women get pregnant and forcing them to carry the baby as punishment, being subject to unfair pay, or submitting to domestic violence. In fact, we conservatives would like to see proof of discrimination against women so we can make sure the multitude of existing laws are enforced. We do not believe that cutting a government check, sending a social worker around, taking guns away from everyone or establishing another agency is even remotely effective in confronting the problems some women have. The 14th Amendment guarantees women the equal protection and due process of the law. Conservatives love to enforce the Constitution.

If you have great faith in Obama and his hope and change fog of comfort talk, then you should hitch your wagon to his unicorn and enjoy the ride.

For example, she whines about “fair pay” for women, and insists she supports Obama because he supports it — even though he doesn’t practice it.

Based on these calculations, Obama’s 28 male staffers divided among themselves total payroll expenditures of $1,523,120. Thus, Obama’s average male employee earned $54,397.

One explanation could be that women compose a majority of McCain’s highest-paid aides. Among his top-five best-compensated staffers, three are women. Of his 20-highest-salaried employees, 13 are women. The Republican presidential nominee relies on women – much more than men – for advice at the highest, and thus, best-paid levels.

So let’s see. Obama blabbers about supporting “fair pay” but doesn’t practice it; McCain says that people should be paid on their merits regardless of gender and more than practices it.

You weigh in on Sarah Palin, but from your very comment, you demonstrate an incredible ignorance of her record.

i, as a woman who is very concerned about women’s issues that affect women on a daily basis, like: health care, domestic violence, fair pay, reproductive rights, am being told by conservatives that i should be ashamed of myself as a feminist for not voting for a woman like sarah palin JUST BECAUSE she is a woman. natural gas pipelines, wasteful spending and her “maverick” status are not women’s issues. if she isn’t actively pursuing the betterment of women’s lives in her state — especially a state where the incident of sexual assault is phenomenally higher than any other state! i have serious problems with voting for her. i’m not saying that a woman should be pursuing these goals because she’s a woman, but that PEOPLE who have the power to make and change policy, male or female, should. is that sexist for me to vote for the candidates who have done that the most?

i’m also really wondering what your idea of the “right choices” are, and how sarah palin has made “right choices” and the “feminist left” does not.

okay: what are some things that sarah palin has actively done for women in her tenure as mayor and governor that i don’t know about? if i am ignorant, i’m legitimately curious.

Huh? Where is it written that a female governor or mayor must “actively” do something just for women? What kind of sexist bigotry ungirds such foolish thinking?

I will pass on contemplating your level of ignorance, but what do you ask when you are illegitimately curious?

1. She eliminated wasteful spending from Alaska’s budget, benefiting Alaska’s taxpayers… half of whom are women.

2. She secured a deal to build a natural gas pipeline… securing jobs for women and for men who support women, as well as securing fuel for all women who use it.

3. She fought corruption in her own party, benefiting all women who care about an honest political system.

4. She provided a courageous example for women who have Down’s Syndrome pregnancies.

5. She showed by example that a woman can achieve success without having to tolerate a philandering husband (Hillary) or being born into a wealthy, connected family (Pelosi, Snowe, Collins, Sebelius, Landrieu, McCaskill).

6. She showed that a woman can govern a state competently, unlike Michigan’s Jenny “one state recession” Granholm.

7. She stood up for domestic energy production creating jobs and lower energy costs for workers and consumers… half of whom are women.

8. She demonstrates that if women work hard and make the right choices, there’s no limit to what they can achieve. Even if they grow up in a cabin and have to hunt for their own food. She showed women you don’t have to kowtow to the feminist left to achieve success.

9. She served her constituents in Wasilla well enough to win re-election handily, and achieve an 80 per cent approval rating in Alaska. I would estimate that about half of her constituents are women.

10. She inquired into the firing of a wife and child-abusing cop.

to be a woman and offended by sarah palin and her nomination for vice president is far from sexist. the fact that mccain never, ever, ever! would have chosen a new male governor of alaska with limited qualifications is offensive.

What limited qualifications? Spell them out.

Of course McCain was swayed by gender in this particular election. The Democrats chose Obama because of his race. Had he been white, we wouldn’t even know of him. So what is the deal here?

Sarah Palin is no different than Joe the plumber in her bedrock conservative principles. McCain might very well have chosen the male governor of Alaska version of Sarah Palin.

Why would a woman be offended by Sarah Palin? What has she done or represent that is “offensive”? Pro-life? Large family? Confidence? Conservative values? An engaging personality? Achievement? Christian beliefs? Straight talk? Maverick qualities? Being a fast learner? Not being a part of the pseudo-intellectual, connected, chattering, preppie Eastern elite? Shopping at Wal-Mart? Not killing a Downs baby? Helping her pregnant teen deal with responsibility? Understanding the lives of regular, hard working Americans?

Do inform us.

original post- Mostly, formerly reputable news organizations are discovering that gossip and scandal sells… there’s a reason that the National Enquirer sold more than ten times as well as the New York Times even before the media implosion of the past few years.

Update- We’re talking about the same Barack Obama who feels put upon because some of the talking heads at Fox don’t support him, and whines about it all the time? Yeah. He’d do smashingly in Palin’s shoes.