Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Unable to get past the form

And check the content.

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(CNN) -- As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's pick for vice president, makes her case to the convention Wednesday night, Republicans hope she will sway Democratic women toward their ticket.
Jesus. Exposes the sexist thinking of the McCain campaign just a bit. They obviously presume women will vote only by the dictates of genitalia.

It doesn't matter that Sarah Palin is a governor of a state, a beautiful, working mother of five. I'm glad she lives in a society that accepts that she can do it all, that women have a voice and representation in government, and it's guaranteed she will receive equal pay for equal work.

The reason why women won't automatically 'flock' to her support is that: she's an extremist Republican. She's a fundamentalist Christian who as mayor tried to censor books in the library, threatened people to sign loyalty oaths, silenced their right to talk to the press, tried to bring religion into schools. As governor she tried to use her office to fire an ex-brother-in-law and is now trying to block the investigation. She's against abortion. She's massively inexperienced.

The article goes on to say:
A recent Rutgers University study said historically, women don't vote for a candidate because a woman is on the ticket. They tend to vote Democratic.
I wonder why that is... hmmm. Maybe it's because Democrats tend to be more supportive of families as opposed to Republicans who are forever declaring themselves the party of family values and continually proving that they don't give a fuck about families, women's rights, equality, freedom of choice, freedom from and of religion, freedom of the press, freedom from corporate greed....

But look! She's a sparkly, pretty woman! Ignore the content! Vote for her form!

4 comments:

mapaghimagsik said...

Daily Show knocked this one out of the park.

"Well John, as a vagina American..."

ellroon said...

Lol! Dear god, how times have changed.

It used to be,"Don't worry your pretty little head about it, let the men handle it".... now it's "Well John, as a vagina American..."

Thanks. That made me laugh.

Steve Bates said...

For clarity, Palin opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest.

And she recently (see my post) said that US participation in the Iraq war is a "task that is from God," and on another occasion, that building a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in Alaska is "God's will."

It's not her own "pipeline" that scares me...

ellroon said...

I wonder if she feels tasked by God to be VP....