The Way To Pander...
Wow. "If I pick a woman as my VP, then all the women voters out there will vote for me & not notice that she's got *no* experience, is anti-choice, anti-environment, anti-gay & currently under investigation by her own state legislature*..."
It's like Dan Quayle all over again, except that it's a pretty woman instead of a cute guy that's supposed to draw women to the Fat Elephant camp. What's worse is that it seems like some woman are actually falling for it- one of the women quoted in a NYTimes article said "She’s very pretty and seems very smart." So she *seems* like she might have a brain but we don't care because she's pretty. Right. Fortunately, most women seem to be paying attention to the fact that she's way more right-wing than any Hillary supporter would ever want to see in office. Just because she's got the same plumbing I do does *not* mean that we think the same.
Unlike all the women they talked to in that article, I have heard of Governor Palin. That's because I'm active in Defenders of Wildlife. Nothing I've heard about this woman is good. She sued to try & get polar bears off the endangered list so she could turn more of the state into an oil field. She thinks shooting as many wolves from airplanes as they can draw a bead on is a good idea. She supports teaching Creationism "intelligent" design in public schools. She's tried to ban gay marriage. She cares more about oil money than global warming. She is, to sum up, the Anti-Hillary.
Once again, women will have to prove to the Repubs that we do, in fact, have brains & use them regularly. I can only assume that they've misplaced theirs.
*for trying to get her sister's estranged husband fired from the police force. Of all the misuses-of-power seen by a politician, that has to be the most petty. She alleges that there might have been some child abuse, but then one has to ask why her sister didn't have him brought up on charges for it instead, like normal non-politically-connected people.
It's like Dan Quayle all over again, except that it's a pretty woman instead of a cute guy that's supposed to draw women to the Fat Elephant camp. What's worse is that it seems like some woman are actually falling for it- one of the women quoted in a NYTimes article said "She’s very pretty and seems very smart." So she *seems* like she might have a brain but we don't care because she's pretty. Right. Fortunately, most women seem to be paying attention to the fact that she's way more right-wing than any Hillary supporter would ever want to see in office. Just because she's got the same plumbing I do does *not* mean that we think the same.
Unlike all the women they talked to in that article, I have heard of Governor Palin. That's because I'm active in Defenders of Wildlife. Nothing I've heard about this woman is good. She sued to try & get polar bears off the endangered list so she could turn more of the state into an oil field. She thinks shooting as many wolves from airplanes as they can draw a bead on is a good idea. She supports teaching Creationism "intelligent" design in public schools. She's tried to ban gay marriage. She cares more about oil money than global warming. She is, to sum up, the Anti-Hillary.
Once again, women will have to prove to the Repubs that we do, in fact, have brains & use them regularly. I can only assume that they've misplaced theirs.
*for trying to get her sister's estranged husband fired from the police force. Of all the misuses-of-power seen by a politician, that has to be the most petty. She alleges that there might have been some child abuse, but then one has to ask why her sister didn't have him brought up on charges for it instead, like normal non-politically-connected people.