Stop the world and let me off!

Have we all gone completely insane? Have I? Obviously the answer to the latter is a resounding “yes” as I am about to do something I never thought I would – defend Sarah Palin.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I still think she is completely unqualified for the VP position. To be honest, I think she is greatly unqualified to be governor of Alaska, having only won that election because the incumbent was so unpopular.

I don’t agree with a her views on a single issue. Her religious views need to stay out of her politics but they are so intertwined that I doubt she knows the difference.

If we let Toto pull back the drape and reveal the men behind the curtain, we will find that Conservative Right Wing Republicans are the puppet-masters pulling her strings and writing her speeches. As a matter of fact, her acceptance speech at the RNC was written BEFORE she was even chosen as running mate. Naturally, the writers  made a few edits to fit her political record and information into the text.

Picking Palin was such a tactical and calculated move on McCain’s part. He did NOT pick this woman because she is capable or even ready for the job of VP. By choosing Palin, McCain successfully took focus away from Obama and his DNC acceptance speech.

He has gone against what he, himself, stated he was looking for….”someone who would be ready to take his place immediately” as Palin, herself, has stated that she isn’t even really sure what a VP’s job entails. One can only hope that people will begin to see through this charade and realize this wholly unqualified, Right Wing, Christian conservative woman is, if McCain is elected, a heart attack away from the presidency.

But I digress. My issue is that I have found myself, on more than one occasion, defending her. And that makes me angry.

I don’t believe in the conspiracy theories about her youngest child but that is not what I find myself in a quandary over.

What I am taking issue with is the myriads of people who feel she should not run for office when she has young children at home. I can’t believe that aside from the many reasons she is unqualified for this position, the biggest issue to most people is that she should stay home and “rear her children”! Are we serious?

Did I go to sleep up and wake up in 1957?

I was raised by a single working mother and had a mentally handicapped brother. My mother handled both work and family and neither one suffered. I think it is a male agenda that tells a woman she can’t do a job because she has family duties. We would never say this if it was Palin’s husband who was the VP choice.

 
Again, I state, WRONG WOMAN…but right time! We are ready for a woman in the White House…but NOT this one!

The F Word!

When did feminism become a dirty word? Why are we, as women, failing to admit that we are feminists and yet so willing to accept the Conservative ideal of feminism – Sarah Palin?

To say Palin is a champion for feminists is like saying Hitler was a champion for human rights.

Sarah Palin is an enemy of the rights of women. Reading the political blogs and forums and seeing women stating they will vote for Palin solely because she is a woman is frightening. It is a betrayal of all feminists….of all women….of all voters.

We SHOULD NOT elect a president or vice president simply because of what does or does not hang between their legs.

Palin is an opportunist NOT a feminist. She is reaping all the benefits of the women’s movement so she can step into office and strip away the hard won rights that put her there. All the shouts and murmurs you are reading about Palin’s feminism are well-placed blurbs from the Conservatives who are trying to use the language of feminists to push their anti-feminist candidate.

Feminism is about allowing women to make their own choices the way men do. Feminism is about empowerment. It is about giving women equality and ability. The ability to keep our own names, if we so desire, when we marry. The ability to control our own bodies and fertility. The ability to have equal access to employment and education. Feminism is about giving women the same rights as men so that we may live in this country as equals.

Sarah Palin is about taking these rights and choices away.

She is against abortion even in the case of rape or incest. She is against sex education and advocates abstinence only education.

To put it in simple terms, she wants to force women to carry unwanted children and yet wishes to deny us the knowledge of the tools we need in order to avoid this very situation.

The only problem with calling oneself a feminist these days is that we have become apathetic feminists. We have watched as the current administration has slowly stripped away our rights….not just as women but as human beings.

This is our wake-up call and if we do not move swiftly we will lose all progress we have made in the past 80 years.