Gender, sexism, power politics and Palin---I'm utterly disgusted.

[vaberella]

Now I love the idea of progressive women in politics. But this is pissing me off. McCain takes a woman who is so ridiculously inexperienced (what happened to resume) not only to have the second highest office in the country but if he becomes president and something should happen to him (God forbid!) she would have executive power. That to me is utter madness.

And to see these newscasters on MSM talk from MSNBC to CNN to the stupidity of FauxNews about how this will energize the Republican party, how gorgeous she is (because looks mean so much), how impressive she is (in what I'd like to know).

Yet what they forget...what they have always forgotten and keeps them out of touch with us the people. This is not about the Republican party.

Obama said this perfectly. It wasn't about him, it's never been about him, contrary to popular belief. Much like this nonsense, is not about the Republican Party. This is about us, our country and we're giving it over to a person (because her gender really is not the issue in this area of my discussion) with 1.5 damn years of experience as Governor not counting her stint as Mayor of a small state?! I'm appalled.

They've turned all of this into revitalization of the Republican party, into "sticking" it to Obama by choosing a woman. Give me a break. This is a disaster for our nation and to see where our nation is at. McCain spent the last year, roughly, spouting how inexperienced Obama is and now he brings in an extremely inexperienced woman.

Then the promotion by the damn media on the fact that she's a woman and will steal the vote of those last lingering women voters. What?! So now the woman's vote can be bought and sold based on sex alone. Our allegiance is based on our sex and not more on what we think and what we believe in. We are a toy of the Republican Party a ploy to garner attention. Our successes and achievements mean nothing in the face of our sex. And our sex is being manipulated against us and the American people.

MSM AND the McCain campaign are insulting the intelligence of women. Where the hell is Mika on Morning Joe?! Not saying a damn thing (that woman is another Andrea Mitchell for me), she alone disgusts me. She's not even giving a point of view. She's not critiqing this information and showing her position as a woman who feels manipulated. Maybe she doesn't, which shocks me!!

They are assuming the woman's vote is so uneducated, so lackluster, so irrelevant that we are easily manipulated by the face of another woman yet we know nothing about her on the issues. As though we don't care about what she has to say on the issues, just the fact she shares the same reproductive make up as we do. It makes me damn sick. I'm sick, disheartened and pissed by the Republican party and MSM.

They are slapping women in the face, they are marginalizing our presence, and using us as a tool to further themselves and at the same time making our country turn into a damn mockery. Handing our country over to a person who's not done much of anything and turning her into a trophy candidate.

Then we have the issue of the debates between Palin and Biden. MSM continously saying this is dangerous for the Obama campaign because Biden has to go gentle on Palin or it will look like he's (implied) badgering her. What?! She's a damn politician who is supposed to have a strong knowledge of our history and our politics and of course the politics abroad. International relations and economics are supposed to be strong. She can't hold toe to toe with Biden?! Then what hell is she doing as Veep?! What the hell is her purpose?! If she thinks she could handle it then she should be able to stand in the presence of a man like Biden and dish out the same that she's getting. She's going to be murderized and the MSM is saying that she deserves special treatment.

What woman wants special treatment if she feels she's qualified?! Horrifying, really and truly horrifying.

I'm horrified. This is not funny. This is not entertaining this is disheartening. I wasn't expecting much from the Repubs, but this is unimaginable for me. I feel betrayed because by some godawful chance that this man makes it to President with his neonate Veep, we truly will be at the end of America. It's been on the path for 8 years with this it's the end. Because it will keep alive the same stupidity in gender politics, it will show our presence as women is nothing more than TROPHY, all this added by the fact that we have someone taking on foreign politics who hasn't even spoken much on local to national politics.


______________________________________________________________________________________________

This has gotten me even more energized to fight for Obama/Biden and the United States of America, this nonsense cannot go on.