Sarah Palin: Girls Want To Be Her, Guys Want To Be Married To Her

Sarah 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.

Posted in Political Animals
Tags: Election 08 • Feminism • Women