Mccain appointed Palin to pander to Clintonians. This means he thinks the women who supported Hillary would vote for a candidate whose views are the polar opposite of her own, merely because it would put a woman in the white house, albeit as VP - in other words, in the administrative assistant position, as a glorified secretary who looks pretty in front of the cameras. For Mccain's assumption to be true, either: 1. Hillary supporters only supported Hillary because she's a woman, not because of her policies or 2. Women who supported Obama will vote for Mccain because they'd rather see a woman as VP than see a man whose policies they support as president. Neither of those options implies a high opinion of women.
Furthermore, Palin has no international affairs experience and is mired in scandal. If he wanted to appoint a woman, couldn't he find a qualified woman? Did he even bother looking, or did her consider the mere fact that she had a vagina to be enough? Perhaps a vagina and a working brain are too much to ask for in one human body?
Speaking of vaginas...Palin has five kids, and Palin's 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Her daughter will not get an abortion and mill marry the father. How sweet and Juno-esque. How pro-choice. The daughter sinned, but will bear the consequences of her actions. She will be united with the father in holy Christian matrimony. So Mccain is using Palin, a woman, to attack women's rights: The right to abortion, and the right to have a baby with, and love, a man, without marrying him. The Nazis used Jewish stars to identify Jews so that they could abuse and eventually kill them. I am not comparing the Republicans to Nazis in their aims, but in their methods: the use of a symbol of a certain group to persecute that group.
As a woman, I do not want Palin to be my symbol. She stands up and talks about breaking glass ceilings. She has become a symbol of women's liberation. But she is not a symbol of my liberation: she is a symbol of a party and a platform that seeks to take away my basic liberties.
Of course, the danger of Palin's daughter being an example of pro-choice in action, is that in the eyes of many social conservatives, her daughter's pregnancy might be evidence of Palin's failure as a mother. Even Obama, the pro-choice candidate, agrees on the need to cut the number of undesired pregnancies. Of course, there are stories of mothers of accidental children who will say how much they love their babies, and how they are happy after the fact. But after the fact, the choice becomes: You have a reality. Be happy with it or be sad - and, for survival and emotional well-being's sakes, how many people choose to be sad? In other words, after the fact, your choice is limited to how you feel about the fact. But I want women to have the choice of what they want the fact to be.
I want to see a woman in the white house, but a woman who gets there through intelligence and talent, not through anatomy. I want a woman whose policies dictate that I vote for her regardless of gender. In other words, I want a woman who gets there by her brain, and not by her vagina.
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basically you said everything i've been thinking. palin makes me want to spit nails. epic fail, johnny boy.
AND she used to be miss alaska. hahaha.
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