It’s so cute when Republicans pretend that they’re feminists…
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin cast herself as the heir to feminism’s legacy in her first visit to Southern Nevada on Tuesday, saying if Democrat Barack Obama were serious about respecting women, he would have chosen Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
“Our opponents think that they have the women’s vote all locked up, which is a little presumptuous, since only our side has a woman on the ticket,” Palin said.
“When the time came to make a decision, somehow Barack Obama just couldn’t bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes,” she added. [...]
“For the women in this audience and across the country, are you ready to break the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America?” the Alaska governor shouted to thunderous cheers during her 25-minute speech.
Of course, thanks to Palin being on the ticket, Republicans have developed a keen new respect for women, right?
Outside the rally, where a line stretched around the block for hours before the event began, protester Karoline Khamis wore a burgundy ball gown and plastic tiara and held a sign reading “Rape Victims Deserve a Choice.” Palin opposes abortion rights even in cases of rape and incest.
Khamis, a 30-year-old former rape victims’ counselor, said the costume was a “tribute” to Palin’s experience as a beauty queen. As the line of Palin fans streamed past, she and the dozen or so other pro-Obama activists on the corner of Green Valley and Paseo Verde parkways were the target of plenty of remarks, some more polite than others.
One man, Khamis said, yelled that he could tell she was a rape victim by what she was wearing, then quickly disappeared when she tried to engage him.
And from the Las Vegas Sun:
Meet Sarah Palin, feminist extraordinaire. [...]
The calculation in deploying this softer, gauzier speech was savvy, if transparent. Picked by Sen. John McCain as a candidate who would draw independent women, polls show that Palin has instead become a drag on his candidacy, a polarizing figure and the least popular of all four of the major nominees. Her qualifications – less than two years ago she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — rank as voters’ top concern about McCain’s candidacy, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. [...]
Although there was plenty of political carnivoria in the crowd, with shouts of “socialist!” and Nobama T-shirts, the event featured some surprising atmospherics, as well. Sitting behind Palin were Linda Klinge, vice president of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for Women, as well as the wealthy heiress and Democratic activist Lynn Forester de Rothschild. [...]
The problem for Palin, and, ultimately, McCain, is that the public doesn’t see the Republican Party as a credible messenger on behalf of equality or policies important to women. Obama is beating McCain among women by 15 percentage points, according the Hotline/Diageo daily tracking poll.
That’s right, the women are smarter.
And in light of the recent news about Palin’s $150,000 RNC-funded shopping sprees, is it really a good idea to have the small town hockey mom sharing a stage with “wealthy heiress” Lady Lynn Forester de Laughingstock? I’m just sayin’...
MORE: Here’s the “feminist extraordinaire” portion of Palin’s speech…
Posted by Kevin K. on 10/22/08 at 10:20 AM • Permalink
Categories: News • Politics • Election '08 • St. McSame • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Nutters • Sarah Palin • Skull Hampers •
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