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The Palin Effect: A New Feminist Movement on the Right
With Sarah Palin’s rise to power over the past two years, there has been a rise in female Republican candidates seeking office, along with more females becoming active in political affairs. Could it be that we have a new feminist movement on the right?
According to a recent editorial by Dana Loesch in The Washington Examiner, the feminists are infuriated over Sarah Palin being considered a feminist. Ah, the notion of someone from the right being considered a feminist…wow, who would have thought that this would make the feminists angered. As Loesch discusses in her piece, feminism is no longer escaping patriarchy, rather it has become a movement that ties women to a political party, whose policies negatively impact women. This is the truth.
Loesch goes on to highlight many issues, where the liberal feminists have shown their hypocritical stripes, but it was her last comment that struck a chord:
Conservative women are active because the liberal idea of feminism has failed. An entire generation of berated men have been hog-tied by the chick card, and conservative women are tired of the liberal stereotype that they’re all simpletons who only raise their voices to sing in church.
Conservative women are rebelling against this false advocacy used as a political ploy to tether women to The Man.
Say hello to conservative feminism.
Conservative feminism actually stands up for working women and stay-at-home moms by advocating for common sense policies. This movement is not going away anytime soon and will continue to grow.
Adios Liberal Feminism…it’s been nice seeing how your radical views have detracted from the issues you championed over the years.
The Sarah Palin Effect: Influence on Female Candidates
Yesterday’s primaries were a victory for the ladies of the Republican party. In California, both Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman won their primaries. Nikki Haley will now face a runoff against Gresham Barrett in South Carolina, where she is favored to win. Sharron Angle, favorite of the Tea Party activists, won the party nod in Nevada. This is welcome news.
However, I was listening to Fred Grandy’s show, The Grandy Group, on WMAL this morning on my way to work, and he posed an interesting point that Tuesday’s primaries were a win for the Tea Parties and a huge win for Sarah Palin. While I agree with Grandy that the results from yesterday’s elections were a victory for the tea parties, I do not necessarily agree with the point that this was a huge win for Palin.
Palin, who was a one-time Vice Presidential nominee and Governor of Alaska, has been traveling across the country endorsing candidates, who are running on conservative principles. She has encouraged many to seek higher office, but there is a question: Is she the main reason that Republican women are seeking office? It’s a good question that needs to be answered.
Long before Palin entered the scene, female Republican candidates were seeking political office. They were doing it based on their own merits and not waiting for the endorsement of a said candidate. For example, Christie Todd Whitman sought and won the Gubernatorial nomination in New Jersey in the 1990s. While she received endorsements by party activists, she won based on the ideas she had for improving New Jersey.
I think this is the same for those who won yesterday’s primaries. They were running to make a difference, and yes, while the endorsement for Palin may have made an impact on their campaign strategy, it was not the main reason these candidates won. It was the merits of each of these candidates and their visions for improving America that won the election.
It will be interesting to see what will happen in future election cycles and to see if Palin will bring out more females seeking higher office under the Republican banner.
Sarah Palin & Dick Envey
Since this week is the Palin media extravaganza, let’s have at it…
Recently, former GOP pooba, Dick Armey expressed his envy of Sarah Palin:
- So she’s kind having to dig herself out of a hole if she wants to regain standing for consideration for a future nomination. And by all accounts, it doesn’t appear she’s doing a very effective job of digging herself out of that hole.
Alright, this is not so bad. At this rate, there is plenty of ambiguity for those that do not want to believe that people like you have put her in this hole. It is interesting to note that Dick has a hole on his mind.
- I think she’s probably a person of greater ability than what she’s given credit to. She probably has more sense than what she’s given credit for. But I do think there’s this whole perception-is-reality thing right now, and she’s got a terribly, terribly rough row to hoe if she’s ever going to regain some standing and make her competitive.
Thanks for propagating that reality, Dick. Frankly, Dick is inadvertently practicing a great pick-up technique. Is that what he is really up to, here?
- And they don’t have a lot of time for someone who stands removed and says, ‘Right on.’ They’re not looking for a cheerleader; they’re looking for a captain of the team.
Okay, that’s it! The fact that cheerleaders are on his mind, proves it! This is an attempt at a Tea Party Movement pick-up! To think that I was all set to say that Dick was just jealous because he’s old news; because everyone in the world knows who Sarah Palin is; and because no one knows Dick Armey from Penis Navy. I was going to say that there are too many instances when the GOP eats its young…and…and…well, someone here is trying to do that.
On another related note, here’s the latest cover of Newsweek:
Nice. Now, besides providing Dick with some spanking material (in case he missed that issue of Runner’s World), we all know what’s going on here. Now what kind of commentary can we expect? How about: “Oh, no one’s going to take her seriously if she poses for pictures like that. Besides, look at how the world looks at the United States after our President has done all that gay pornography.” So is Sarah still in the hole?
Palin Quits!
According to Fox News, it appears Sarah Palin has decided to resign as Governor. Speculation says that she did this to prepare for a 2012 run. Perhaps, it was the consistent cloud of media coverage hindering her ability to serve.
Whatever the reason may be, if she is planning to run for President, she will not have my support.
Is Sarah Palin Following in Ronald Reagan’s Footsteps?
Lately, there have been a lot of people comparing Sarah Palin to Ronald Reagan. One could say it is her charisma and appeal to many ordinary people, who see her as themselves. After all, she is from small town America and was raised in strong, conservative values. From all of the indicators of her speech last week, she provides much of the “wow” effect that has been missing since Reagan.
You see, while Palin is not Reagan, the comparisons are correct in being there. After all, you are seeing Republicans and Independents coming back in the fray and supporting the McCain/Palin ticket enthusiastically. Not only that, she has energized the female base and brought many disillusioned Hillary supporters to help make this ticket unstoppable. The other comparison is that Palin is tough and does not back down. Case in point, the recent MSM attacks on her family and parenting.
The most interesting and compelling proof is from a recent article that Michael Reagan wrote detailing the exact comparisons between Palin and his late father. He wrote:
Like Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin is one of us. She knows how most of us live because that’s the way she lives. She shares our homespun values and our beliefs, and she glories in her status as a small-town woman who put her shoulder to the wheel and made life better for her neighbors.
Her astonishing rise up from the grass-roots, her total lack of self-importance, and her ordinary American values and modest lifestyle reveal her to be the kind of hard-working, optimistic, ordinary American who made this country the greatest, most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
As hard as you might try, you won’t find that kind of plain-spoken, down-to-earth, self-reliant American in the upper ranks of the liberal-infested, elitist Democratic Party, or in the Obama campaign.
Sarah Palin didn’t go to Harvard, or fiddle around in urban neighborhood leftist activism while engaging in opportunism within the ranks of one of the nation’s most corrupt political machines, never challenging it and going along to get along, like Barack Obama.
Instead she took on the corrupt establishment in Alaska and beat it, rising to the governorship while bringing reforms to every level of government she served in on her way up the ladder.
Welcome back, Dad, even if you’re wearing a dress and bearing children this time around.
There is no doubt, even if the McCain/Palin ticket loses in November, that Palin’s star is rising and she might very well revive the Republican Party by returning us back to the principles we stand for: limited government, fiscal responsibility, and protection of family, freedom and faith.
