Alaska governor Sarah Palin selection by Senator John McCain has folks talking. It was funny to see James Carville trying to figure out how Senator McCain selected Governor Palin as the woman who would represent Republican women. Carville was clueless in understanding Senator McCain meeting Governor Palin once and decided that she was the next V.P. for the United States.
Carville probably did not understand that the religious voters wants someone who oppose abortion rights. Palin does. First, Governor Palin discovers she is pregnant with a down syndrome child and forgoes an abortion. Second Carville did not know that Palin not only did not see abortion as an option for herself, Carville would be further baffled by Senator McCain pick when news broke that Palin did not believe abortion was an option for her own pregnant teenage daughter.
No abortions, the high ground. Women voters will surely fight for this woman right to choose. Women want to make history and the former beauty gueen has more appeal than the black man and old rich raced white male. The men will vote for Governor Palin because she is a former beauty queen, contrasted to the ice gueen Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and takes the spotlight off the well dressed Michelle Obama.
The women's vote, the low income women vote, the religious low income women vote. The women voters who have to raise families and work outside the home vote. The women's voters who are finding it hard to send their children to college. The women voters whom children are still at home because these children are unable to earn enough to be independent.
The mother's vote who put country first no matter how much its f-up the moral values of their children.
The 18 million crack vote trying to break through.
The women's vote is a myth.
ReplyDeleteSenator Clinton and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues.
Even on the question of whether women should vote!
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Virginia:
ReplyDeleteThnaks for your insight. However, the women's vote is not a myth. Having studied the social and political and hisory of women, it is well documented about the power of the woman's vote.
Earlier women held offfices after their husbands died to finish off their husband terms. Hillary entered the political world on the coattail of her husband. Sarah entered local politic and has been nominated for vice-president without the credentials that many women who hold political office.
Palin will encourage more qualified women to run for president during the next election. Palin will have to polish her image to hold the seat of vice president. As a woman running for high profile office image is everything, first Palin will have to loss her wardrobe of black in mourning and she will have to cut her hair and wear contacts.
This is not a beauty contest but the seat of the vice presidency.
Virginia, I suggest you read, "Running as a woman for political office" or the history of Seneca Falls in 1848, the National Women Suffrage Association and a splinter group was created called the American Woman Suffrage Association which both groups eventually merged and the National American Women Suffrage Association.
I will only mention Marie Stewart or Steward because you can not speak of women rights without speaking of African-American women, was the first woman to speak in public.
Thanks again Virginia for sharing and keep reading.