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man, she on fire.
and yes, this means we'll kick her ass in the presidential election. but hey, maybe she'll end up running about 3 times, she's pretty young and she seems to have mastered the media game. she'll be able to sell another book after running and losing the presidency and then her book contract might be worth $15 million. you don't need a majority of people to like you to be a "success" as a politician, you only need to be yourself and to have some people like you. She succeeds.
And I have to say, why don't we have someone so charismatic? Gregoire a great lawyer who sued tobacco can't even seem to get on the short list for the new supreme court spot. i mean really, wtf? Granholm and Napolitano get mentioned, but not Gregoire who got on time mag. cover for kicking big tobacco around?
do our chix just lack ambition?
What's authentic about someone who's in it only for the money, but won't admit that, less she cut into her earnings potential (like Colin Powell did when he published his book, then said he wasn't running.) There is nothing at all authentic about Palin.
Even my 85 year old mother, who had a long career as a bridge playing matron and lady who lunched (although she was a Rosie during WWII, and marched in the 1947 Bell System strike) has despised Palin from the first moment she walked on stage at the RNC.
As far as men go, a lot of them just want to fantasize about her, but the longer she goes on, with that horrid shrill voice and mean-spirited humor, the more she'll start to remind them of bitchy, back-stabbing women they've known.
I see that you're not trying to convince me that Gregoire, Napolitano and Granholm are exciting or vibrant of have a national base at all, thus QED my point is confirmed.
It's as if it's part of the liberal belief system that to be a public leader you have to be a dour donkeywonk at all times. No fun!
Why can't we have someone like that women's right chick on the West Wing who was going out with Josh? Someone who's fun and who speaks right out. A bit of charisma. Too much to ask, I see it's threatening on some level.
And, hey, how many Americans heard Newt Gingrich describe Sarah Palin as a "feminist icon" on CNN the other day?
I wouldn't call her a feminist icon, but feminism was supposed to be, and should be, about women having the opportunity to pursue whatever they want in life. I don't agree with Palin's opinions or politics but she doesn't have to be a lefty to be a feminist.
Of course not. No one is saying that. But you do have to avoid things like making women pay for their own rape kits if you want to be considered a feminist. A feminist icon is not as simple as a woman in power; a lot depends on how said woman influences the rights of other women, and Palin reinforces patriarchal systems for everyone but herself.
What's hilarious is that you failed to create a Bogeywoman out of Sarah, and then you complain publication about your own shortcomings!
"Why aren't they hating her, when I spent a whole year smearing her...waaaaaaaah"
Well, ok, I'm laughing.
"Palin is authentic because she speaks from her emotional center, truly believes what she says, and connects."
No, she is a political grifter who latched onto a specific persona she portrays in public, then waits for people like you to fall over backwards in orgasm. She's in it for the money, has a political shtick she uses to make that money, and laughs all the way to the bank while people like you throw hearts and flowers.
BTW, I don't know how Napalitano or Granholm would do nationally, but you're point about being dour underscores the main reason why Palin is successful. Republicans only want beauty queen types running for office, otherwise they couldn't care less. Big hair, big makeup. Look at the obsession with Hillary's looks all those years. If Palin fell into the dour class of women only Liberals seem to attract (according to you), she could be as authentic as apple pie, and it wouldn't matter one bit to conservatives.
Democrats do have bad-ass chicks, but they are busy getting health care passed or being the Secretary of State.
That's not what they say in Texas.
Dumbass.
You misunderstood.
No one was talking about Fat-ass chicks...
Beauty is only skin deep but Dour goes all the way to the bone.
The problem with the Democrat women you cite is not that they are too authentic.
They are humorless stodgy unimaginative uninspiring cows.
Martha Croakley is the poster troll for the genre...
Democratic women politicians are epic fails for the same reason Liberal Talk radio was such a spectacular flop.
Wrong. Feminism is about bringing an end to patriarchal thinking, traditions, and laws. By your definition, Phyllis Schlafly is a feminist because she is doing what she wants, even if that means campaigning to restore women to their traditional, subservient cultural roles. And your claim that a woman "doesn't have to be a lefty to be a feminist" is not quite right, either. Feminism is inherently about social change and defiance of traditional structures that privilege men -- the church, the 50's-style nuclear family -- that conservatism, by definition, supports. If you're saying that a feminist might have conservative views about some things, then I agree with you, but her feminist views are inherently progressive, "lefty" views.
I would like to see Limbaugh, et all, trying to compete in an environment where stations actually aired what local markets wanted to hear. They'd be on a handful of low-power daylight stations in the south and the great plains.
How was the view? Could you see Russia?
WTF?
Your country is full of crazy people.
How did you get to rule the world?
Can China be our new overlords? At least they stomp out their crazy cults...
Nooo, okay I'm joking. How bout Sweden! No one can argue with them! Everyone wishes they were Swedish. Or at least fucking Alexander Skarsgard.
I firmly believe that most men who claim that women are extremely cruel to each other are actually seeing this dynamic. Nominally attractive bitches like Sarah Palin are very good at blowing smoke up men's asses while backstabbing other women with glee. When those women get fed up and blackball her, the men can't figure out what's going on, so they conclude women must be cruel, especially to "beautiful" women.