Sarah Palin: Girls Want To Be Her, Guys Want To Be Married To Her
August 29, 2008 / 4:31 pm • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierSarah Palin will solidify votes from a couple groups of people: hetero women and the men who are married to them. Allah is worried that hard-core feminists won’t vote for her. Maybe not, but there are a lot of working women, younger and less bitter, who will happily swing from the Dems to the Republican side. In addition, the men who dig these women, the working guys, like Sarah’s husband, will vote McCain, too. Here’s what Allah said:
Are McCain’s and Obama’s interviews usually transcribed phonetically like that, with “ya” in place of “you”? The meme’s already aloft, you see. I’m not sold on the idea that she’s going to attract women voters either, especially Hillary types. One of the subtler virtues of the hick meme is that even if it doesn’t convince voters she’s dumb, it might at least convince PUMAs that she’s not “our kind” of woman. The left is exceptionally good at authenticity games, and the better Palin does on the trail, the more fervently they’re going to push the idea that she’s a traitor to her gender whom no “real” feminist would ever support. My boss gets that from them 24/7.
Here’s the thing. There are so many women on the Left that are schooled in identity politics. Just as the vast majority of blacks will vote black, to their own demise (see Detroit, see New Orleans), there are many Leftist women who will vote for women. And the Democratic men tread on Sarah Palin to their own demise. I don’t think Obama et al fully comprehend the anger at being passed over and that Hillary wasn’t seriously considered for Vice President. If they don’t get it yet, they will. So, it won’t be outraged Republicans defending Palin, it will be outraged women. There’s a lot of them. (And there will be some women who go after Palin for being a traitor to her gender.)
Sarah Palin isn’t a girl who was married to a political genius, ala Hillary Clinton’s relationship to Bill. She isn’t Nancy Pelosi riding on her hubby’s money train. Sarah Palin is a self-made woman. She knows hard work. She knows motherhood. She knows the challenges of balancing work and family. Most important for her Vice Presidential job, she knows the challenges of being an executive in a state.
Time will tell what she’s made of. But as a basketball playing, gun shooting, fish-boat working, mother of five, I’m guessing it’s tough stuff.
The Left will try to paint her as a female Dan Quayle (revealing the feebleness of their criticisms). The Left will try to paint her as a dumb hick or as Begala says “former fisherman” (revealing their contempt for the average American). The Left will try to paint her as just a “trophy candidate” (revealing their contempt for people who are gifted).
And they will be discounting, how a conservative woman like me greeted my daughter when she got home from school. I showed her that a woman, a mother, a worker, a conservative woman is the Vice Presidential candidate. This is very powerful.
Conservative women wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because the ideology conflicted. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for a woman with socialist policies. And it bothered me that Hillary’s experience came on the coattails of her husband.
In contrast, Sarah Palin is a self-made woman. And the Democrats who are skewering her, do so at great risk. They undermine their own candidates. They further alienate a frustrated portion of their base. Sarah Palin as a Republican Vice Presidential candidate is historic and exciting. She is a great choice which is why they are lashing out in panic.
Updated:
Some on the Left are understanding this, I think. For example:
Palin accepts that Hillary Clinton suffered from sexist coverage (something the Left blogs have NOT accepted. See John Aravosis for instance) but that Hillary should have sucked it up. Pretty bad stuff. But she did not call Hillary a whiner or deny that Hillary faced sexism.
I don’t see what is so bad about Palin’s statements about Hillary. In fact, as a woman, I too, was irritated with Hillary’s tears, which seemed self-indulgent and defeating to women trying to gain respect.
Well, some get it. Others just don’t. I can think of negatives for all the women listed here.
15 Responses to “Sarah Palin: Girls Want To Be Her, Guys Want To Be Married To Her”
August 29 2008 / 9:17 pm
Reply
I wasn’t irritated by Hillary’s tears, exactly, but they disqualify her for public office in my book, just as Thomas Eagleton’s tears disqualified him some decades ago. You can’t have a president who cries when things don’t go his or her way. What if Kennedy’s reaction to the Cuban missile crisis had been to burst into tears? Leaders must be strong, and strong for others, not themselves.
August 29 2008 / 9:29 pm
Reply
nice try, but…
People dont vote for VP. There will be some noise now, but come Nov., its McCain or Obama.
And the bottom line of this choice is that McCain has lost the ability to make the inexerperience charge against Obama – given that he is proclaiming this woman to be ready, on day one if necessary, to assume the presidency.
Without the inexperience argument, McCain really has nothing that the American people are in the mood to buy this year. So the choice will probably end up being a huge negative, despite Palin’s interesting persona.
And BTW – guys who are attracted to her are not looking to marry her, if ya know what I mean…
August 29 2008 / 10:05 pm
Reply
Joe–
Nice try, but. . .
Conservatives who had decided not to vote this year are now going to vote because of this choice. Hillary voters, much to my surprise, will also vote for this choice, because of their extreme disgust at the way their party treated their candidate.
And with this pick, McCain has won the experience debate. Palin already has more administrative experience than Obama, but she is not running for President. Obama, with zero experience, is running for a position for which he is completely unqualified, and by opening the experience issue, is leaving his own lack of qualifications exposed.
It was a brilliant choice.
August 29 2008 / 11:05 pm
Reply
“Quale” is spelled “Quayle.” Remember potato?
Being a United States Senator is actually quite a bit of experience.
And Hillary would be appalled by your use of her for conservative means.
And thanks for the link to Poligot, but if Republicans can’t think of a more significant list of women to lead our nation that are to your suiting, then they have some work to do.
August 29 2008 / 11:20 pm
Reply
Kristin,
I think you are right. I’m not thrilled with the women on either side of the aisle. It seems to me, that women are still a generation away from having a rich group of talent and experience to choose from. It’s just a matter of opportunity, hard work, and time.
And my issues with the women on the list vary. Heck, I have issues with McCain. There is no perfect candidate, but I sure would like more choices.
August 29 2008 / 11:30 pm
Reply
Kristin–
Being a United States Senator is legislative experience. It is not administrative experience. They are very different in nature. Obama has zero administrative experience. For that matter, Biden and McCain also have zero administrative experience. Therefore. . .
As to Hillary, if you look on her website, many of her supporters are now going to vote for McCain because of this choice.
And that list is not a Republican list. It’s one blogger’s list.
August 30 2008 / 8:46 am
Reply
I don’t think the big reason McCain picked her was because of the female vote -though those shifting to the ticket might make the difference in the outcome in a close election.
I think he needed badly to shore up his conservative vote, and the female issue is a bonus.
I seriously was not going to vote for this man somehow, but now feel charged up by a true opportunity to vote for a real conservative -someone with traditional cultural and moral values, and someone who is fiscally responsible. Most refreshing is that character, principle, and respect for human life as something essential for leadership of a nation for it to survive and thrive.
Sarah represents the rejection of the Clinton era – “character doesn’t matter” and it’s just sex” nonsense.
My bumper sticker will say “Palin/Rino in 08″
PS Besides all that, she shoots her own carabou meat (probably under that AK pipline that attracts them with its warmth.
August 30 2008 / 3:54 pm
Reply
Thanks, Joe Citizen, for demonstrating that we still have a few primitives who believe in the Madonna-Whore dichotomy.
August 31 2008 / 10:11 am
Reply
Let’s see………, for years and years America has had several hands on its proverbial throat, one of those being the forecful grip of the feminists (liberal women) who demand that America “recognize” and “acknowledge” the equality and competence (read : superiority) of women.
O.K. Let’s put that money where the mouth (read : tooth) is……….
So, now we have a ticket that includes a woman who is, from all imperfect inspection altogether intelligent, well-rounded, solid, down-to-earth, real, capable, competent and adequately experienced to affect subordinate administrative duties as is the case of any Executive Branch vice president. Palin’s biggest problem is that she is not a raging liberal and therein lies the exposure of raging hypocrisy vis-a-vis the darling Left.
Were Palin a liberal, every foot-in-her-pie hole hypocrit woman of vague to established renown from Susan Sarandon, America’s “sweetheart” – Katie (high colonic)Couric, all of the pathetic broads on “The View”, Kathleen Sebelius, etc…., to Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi et al., ad nauseum right on down to America’s Joseph Goebbels….., none other than self-appointed demi god; her royal highness oprah winfrey (actaully no….., oprah would pass because Palin is tragically Occidental) would be screaming at the top of their rancid lungs as to the “brilliance”, “competence” and the rest regarding Palin.
Yes, Palin’s biggest problem is that she is not a liberal. For myself and many others I can more than live with that “problem”. Further, I’m more than certain Palin can articulate in more than “eloquent” if not simple terms the hundreds of times she has held immense and joyful, albeit humble pride in witness to many, many things American. And I hope that enough real Americans will mind that fact and remember come November, from a pragmatic standpoint, “hope” makes for a great breakfast, but a lousy dinner…………..
August 31 2008 / 12:52 pm
Reply
Sarah has everthing we need without the B-S
September 1 2008 / 1:42 pm
Reply
http://fuanglada.wordpress.com/... An Alaskan blog with neat Alaska pics and devoting the week to giving you facts about our Sarah + a little humor… [as identified by my 70 years old USMC.. commercial airline pilot ... alzheimerishly hazy mind]
September 3 2008 / 11:13 pm
Reply
Sarah Palin was fabulous. I think it’s okay to be apprehensive, but I had no worries. Sarah’s the real deal. She’ll knock ‘em dead every time. I like this blog too. And, I’ve found the perfect (unofficial) theme song(s) for John McCain & Sarah. It’s Jan & Dean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsHHQGY2_KU Or my fave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX7X4FovYRA&NR=1 How ‘bout them Dems everybody, think they’re done: http://theseedsof9-11.com
September 5 2008 / 2:24 pm
Reply
Sarah Palin is not just No Hillary. She’s a joke. As a woman, I don’t see how she has any courage or conviction. She’s as duped with the whole male supremacist ideology when it comes to her politics as the wives of the Texas Polygamists are when it comes to love. Women have no choice or voice in the Republic party. They’re just used as puppets. B/w, Doesn’t McCain look too frail to be President? He looks like he’s barely able to keep his balance.
Los Angeles, CA