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The Real Women's Party

In these past few weeks, Sarah Palin has come striding onto the scene, knocking everybody back on their ….heels. She has proven herself to be ferocious (pit bull-like?) against her opponents, well-spoken, charismatic, and most of all, quite conservative. She stands for everything that I value. Her views of abortion, her real-life experience with corrupted government…I cannot find anything I don’t like about this woman.
If everything goes as it should, in January of next year, we will have our first female vice-president. But more importantly, we will have a vice-president who will have values and morals in line with most of the conservative right. The history-making is just a bonus.
And yet, the media is focusing more on Sarah Palin’s gender than her actual views and policies. We have to watch as a woman gets pummeled in the media for being a woman. And the biggest outrage, after DECADES of fighting to get out of the kitchen, the left is telling us that Sarah Palin is abandoning her family by having a career.
I honestly don’t know why every woman in America isn’t absolutely furious right now. We have gotten so far as to have a female vice-president candidate, and suddenly the left tells us that we women have made it too far. Now we have to stay home and not dirty our hands with men‘s work. Maybe they should just tie our apron strings around our feet.
The Democrats claim they are the party that supports women’s rights. But they were the party that passed on having Hillary Clinton as their VP. Instead, they chose Joe Biden, a man who actually had the idiocy to say that Sarah Palin was “obviously a backward step for women.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijGoISc7vFc)
You know, I may not agree with Hillary Clinton on anything, but I respect her. She has made strides where no woman has ever gone before. She very nearly made the first female major-partied-backed run for president. For that alone, I respect her. But couldn’t the Democrats have the same courtesy?
They may not agree with any of Sarah Palin’s views, but that alone does not give them the right to say that the very real possibility of the first female vice-president is a “backward step for women.” If the Democrats call this women’s rights, I’ll think I’ll pass, and take my vote to a party that actually values my views, regardless of my gender.

-Lindsey Van Beek

Posted at 12:56PM Sep 11, 2008 by College Republicans in General  |  Comments[3]