In case there was any doubt, Sarah Palin is bat shit crazy.

[anitram]

apparently, marriage needed someone to defend it.

his marriage.

He cheated on his wife because our society allowed Adam and Steve to get married in San Francisco.

 

[BVS]

apparently, marriage needed someone to defend it.

It's just a word in the dictionary, just a word.

 

[deep]

FYI - I have the authority to cancel revocations.

He cheated on his wife because our society allowed Adam and Steve to get married in San Francisco.

A born-again Christian, Ensign has been a member of the Promise Keepers, a male evangelical group that promotes marital fidelity.

When former Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in an airport men’s room in the summer of 2007, Ensign was among Craig’s toughest critics, saying Craig should step down.

"I wouldn’t put myself, hopefully, in that kind of position, but if I was in a position like that, that’s what I would do," Ensign told The Associated Press at the time.

During the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, Ensign, then a Senate candidate, called on Clinton to resign.

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[financeguy]

I think it's really lame and tiresome when people keep accusing women of being envious and/or jealous of Sarah Palin because she's such an accomplished woman who has everything.

It's lazy and it's pathetic.

This is precisely what liberals have repeatedly said, and still say, about opposition to Hillary Clinton! Criticisms of Hillary are repeatedly assigned to envy (although usually, it's male opponents that are said to be envious, in this case). And you say this liberal hypocrisy is just an invention of mine.

 

[deep]

apparently, marriage needed someone to defend it.

his marriage.

some accountability

U.S. Senator John Ensign resigned from a party leadership post on Wednesday after admitting an affair with a female staffer.

"He's accepted responsibility for his actions and apologized to his family and constituents. He offered, and I accepted, his resignation as chairman of the (Senate Republican) Policy Committee," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

he has certainly lived by the sword

he begins to feel the blade.

 

[anitram]

This is precisely what liberals have repeatedly said, and still say, about opposition to Hillary Clinton! Criticisms of Hillary are repeatedly assigned to envy (although usually, it's male opponents that are said to be envious, in this case).

I honestly don't know what you're talking about here.

I've heard a whole panoply of arguments about why the opposition to Hillary exists, and I can't say that envy is one of them. Truly and honestly.

And for the record, I wasn't a Hillary supporter either.

 

[financeguy]

you're just jealous of her because she got some talented gay guy to buy her a lot of awesome clothes with Republican money.

It's interesting, actually, that this point is regularly made by liberal media pundit critics of Palin, yet all she did was buy herself a few nice clothes. Big deal. Why shouldn't she buy some new clothes if she was running for the second highest office of the land? Underlying this is, I think, a subtle form of real misogyny (as opposed to the largely fake accusations of misogyny that liberals sometimes throw at opponents for political reasons) A male candidate that decided to, for example, splash out on a new sportscar mid-campaign would hardly attract any attention at all.

 

[diamond]

apparently, marriage needed someone to defend it.

his marriage.

well
said.

 

[yolland]

I honestly don't know what you're talking about here.

I've heard a whole panoply of arguments about why the opposition to Hillary exists, and I can't say that envy is one of them. Truly and honestly.

And for the record, I wasn't a Hillary supporter either.

Yeah, I don't recall a 'Hillary envy' narrative either.

Also, I would reiterate what BonosSaint pointed out earlier, which is that many of the most mean-spirited swipes at Hillary during the election in fact came from Obama supporters, not conservatives. And like anitram, I'm speaking here as someone who never supported Hillary myself.

 

[BVS]

It's interesting, actually, that this point is regularly made by liberal media pundit critics of Palin, yet all she did was buy herself a few nice clothes. Big deal. Why shouldn't she buy some new clothes if she was running for the second highest office of the land? Underlying this is, I think, a subtle form of real misogyny (as opposed to the largely fake accusations of misogyny that liberals sometimes throw at opponents for political reasons) A male candidate that decided to, for example, splash out on a new sportscar mid-campaign would hardly attract any attention at all.

It would if it was the RNC paying for it, do you understand what's going on?

 

[BVS]

This is precisely what liberals have repeatedly said, and still say, about opposition to Hillary Clinton! Criticisms of Hillary are repeatedly assigned to envy (although usually, it's male opponents that are said to be envious, in this case). And you say this liberal hypocrisy is just an invention of mine.

Source please?

 

[Irvine511]

It's interesting, actually, that this point is regularly made by liberal media pundit critics of Palin, yet all she did was buy herself a few nice clothes. Big deal. Why shouldn't she buy some new clothes if she was running for the second highest office of the land? Underlying this is, I think, a subtle form of real misogyny (as opposed to the largely fake accusations of misogyny that liberals sometimes throw at opponents for political reasons) A male candidate that decided to, for example, splash out on a new sportscar mid-campaign would hardly attract any attention at all.

maybe if she had something to offer other than clothes?

 

[financeguy]

maybe if she had something to offer other than clothes?

Seemingly, 59,948,240 Americans disagreed with the liberal assessment that Palin (being a woman) was just an airhead clothes horse.

 

[anitram]

Seemingly, 59,948,240 Americans disagreed with the liberal assessment that Palin (being a woman) was just an airhead clothes horse.

And probably most of them still think that Saddam and 9/11 are connected...

 

[BVS]

Seemingly, 59,948,240 Americans disagreed with the liberal assessment that Palin (being a woman) was just an airhead clothes horse.

Really? How many voted for her vs McCain vs the ticket? Now you're trying too little.

 

[yolland]

A male candidate that decided to, for example, splash out on a new sportscar mid-campaign would hardly attract any attention at all.

I seem to recall John Edwards' haircut$ attracting quite a bit of criticism.

 

[purpleoscar]

Yeah, sounds like she's been gulping that feminazi Koolaid all right.

Yeah that's not a great example. It takes awhile to surf the net for old stuff. Here are some other examples:

Why aren't women furious about Sarah Palin? | Salon Life

I thought, "Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it."

But, the Republicans seem to be saying, at least we can offer you the hope of putting women back in their place.

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

On Faith: All Beliefs Welcome, Unless They are Forced on Others - Wendy Doniger

Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.

And the evidence for his being a feminist...?

John Roberts is not a conservative. He's an ex-Muchmusic VJ. Anyways the Republican response corrected him.

Um, I don't see how this (from the link) helps your argument?

Again, I don't see how this text helps your argument?

Those articles hint that you have to support liberal social projects to be a true feminist and to be supportive of equal rights for women. There's a difference between equal outcomes and being equal before the law. Liberals like to demand standards of all kinds but don't seem to think on the ability to pay for those standards. Hence some conservative women feel that way but are hardly stepford wives.

 

[deep]

Really? How many voted for her vs McCain vs the ticket? Now you're trying too little.

I am not singling you out as the enemy.

But, it seems many of Palin's detractors have said she was the reason McCain lost.


I am convinced that she added millions of votes to the ticket.

Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani on the ticket would have seen a much larger Obama margin than just 7 %.

 

[purpleoscar]

But there is always an implication that it's women who are jealous of her. And I don't know how you've come to conclude what rubbed women the wrong way, either.

Since many men compare themselves to men and women to women it's straightforward based on who people would most likely identify with. Men can be jealous of other men but in this example we are talking about Sarah Palin.

Every woman I know was offended by the idea of Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency and NONE of them were offended because she was a) accomplished or b) good looking. In fact, that never even entered the conversation.

Yeah but how many people would admit their envy so easily? Obama is in the presidency and he had less executive experience than Palin. That didn't seem to frighten the left. If it wasn't her lack of experience then what was it?

 

[anitram]

Yeah but how many people would admit their envy so easily?

Your arguments can be summarized as follows:

First, women hated Sarah Palin because she was accomplished so they were jealous. Then they hated her because she was good looking. Then they hated her because she made a good salary (kind of bizarre seeing as how she doesn't make THAT much money). And now we again hate her because we're envious but we're also unable to admit our envy.

The possibility that we think that she's uninformed, unprepared and intellectually incurious in combination with our dismay that we should overlook these things because she has a 2nd X chromosome like us clearly never entered the realm of possibility for you.

 

[Vincent Vega]

^I hate to break it to you, but we men know you women better than you do.

 

[2861U2]

I am not singling you out as the enemy.

But, it seems many of Palin's detractors have said she was the reason McCain lost.


I am convinced that she added millions of votes to the ticket.

Romney, Huckabee, Giuliani on the ticket would have seen a much larger Obama margin than just 7 %.

She absolutely helped the ticket. GWB did 11 points better than McCain with white men, but he only did 4 points better among white women. I can only attribute that to Palin. It's well-known that Obama did poor with white women.

 

[purpleoscar]

Your arguments can be summarized as follows:

First, women hated Sarah Palin because she was accomplished so they were jealous. Then they hated her because she was good looking. Then they hated her because she made a good salary (kind of bizarre seeing as how she doesn't make THAT much money). And now we again hate her because we're envious but we're also unable to admit our envy.

Almost correct except I would add that much of that wasn't in any particular order but all at the same time.

Also some of the articles I posted talked about how she's able to "do it all" because she can afford things many women can't. This ties into the idea that real feminists believe in lots of social programs and Sarah Palin isn't a real one because she's too conservative.

The possibility that we think that she's uninformed, unprepared and intellectually incurious in combination with our dismay that we should overlook these things because she has a 2nd X chromosome like us clearly never entered the realm of possibility for you.

Yeah but I saw what she was talking about and I didn't find her incurious, and uninformed as you did. She did have some trouble because she didn't agree with McCain on everything but you could say the same about Biden vs. Obama. She also was nervous in interviews. I agreed with her on:

- Supporting more troops in Afghanistan
- Balanced budgets and tax reform
- Israel
- Drilling for oil in ANWR and increasing nuclear power capacity
- Spending freeze

So when the liberals were attacking her it seemed exagerrated and based on presentation and what consitutes a real woman leader and the clothes she wore.

 

[deep]

She absolutely helped the ticket. GWB did 11 points better than McCain with white men, but he only did 4 points better among white women. I can only attribute that to Palin. It's well-known that Obama did poor with white women.

Bringing GWB into the conversation just confuses the hell out of all this

McCain/ Palin did not lose the 2008 election so much as GWB did.

Obama constantly campaigned against McCain/ BUSH.

Palin was the anti - Bush, far removed from D C., the outsider.

and she had not wrapped herself around Bush, like Romney and Giuliani did.

GWB would have got a less white male voters than McCain in 2008.

 

[martha]

It's so funny that the conservative men keep telling the FYM women what's what and how we think and what we thought and how we're thinking now.

Could this be why young people have very little interest in the Republican party right now?

But please, guys, tell me what feminism is, tell me how and why I felt about Palin, make me into a group and then make wild assumptions about that group. It's entertaining as hell and just makes you look even more ridiculous than before.


Oh, and don't forget to look up internet sources that prove I think and fell the way you think I should.

 

[2861U2]

make me into a group and then make wild assumptions about that group.

Because you never do that, do you martha?

 

[financeguy]

It's so funny that the conservative men keep telling the FYM women what's what and how we think and what we thought and how we're thinking now.

Could this be why young people have very little interest in the Republican party right now?

But please, guys, tell me what feminism is, tell me how and why I felt about Palin, make me into a group and then make wild assumptions about that group. It's entertaining as hell and just makes you look even more ridiculous than before.


Oh, and don't forget to look up internet sources that prove I think and fell the way you think I should.

It's funny that one or two on FYM think they're representative of all women or the feminist viewpoint in general.

But I needn't be surprised that some of certain type of political outlook were uncomfortable with someone like Palin advancing herself in life in the admirable way she has done. Palin's very existence really does cause a lot of loathing among some liberals.

In fact, no-one has 'told' you how to think about anything, that's a figment of your imagination. What some of us have tried to do is explain the appeal of Sarah Palin to many traditionally minded Americans, and I guess you're uncomfortable with that.

 

[financeguy]

She did have some trouble because she didn't agree with McCain on everything but you could say the same about Biden vs. Obama. She also was nervous in interviews. I agreed with her on:

- Supporting more troops in Afghanistan
- Balanced budgets and tax reform
- Israel
- Drilling for oil in ANWR and increasing nuclear power capacity
- Spending freeze

So when the liberals were attacking her it seemed exagerrated and based on presentation and what consitutes a real woman leader and the clothes she wore.

Actually I'd probably disagree with her on most of that. It's the socially conservative stances I tend to somewhat approve of.

It's interesting that it's ok to call Sarah Palin stupid and her constituents white trash hill-billy hicks, but it's not ok to remind people that Saint Barack had no executive experience before taking up the office of POTUS, and earlier in his career seemingly had no more ambition than to become a 'community organiser'.

 

[diamond]

But we more or less agree that David Letterman was wrong in insulting Palin-right everyone?

 

[martha]

I think he showed extremely poor taste.