Anna Quindlen: GOP "finds its inner feminist"

[BumRushDaShow]

THE LAST WORD
Anna Quindlen
Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

If you're a Republican, you'd better learn. The right wing that trashed the women's movement suddenly finds its inner feminist.
Published Sep 6, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008

Hypocrisy is only bad when it is improperly used.
—George Bernard Shaw

I never thought I would live long enough to see the day when the Republican presidential candidate would cite membership in the PTA as evidence of executive experience, when the far right would laud the full-time working mothers of newborns, when social conservatives would stare down teenage pregnancy and replace their pursed-lip accusations of promiscuity with hosannas about choosing life.

The Republican Party has undergone a surprising metamorphosis since Sarah Palin was chosen as its vice presidential candidate. In Palin I recognize a fellow traveler, a woman whose life would have been impossible just a few decades ago. If she had been born 30 years earlier, the PTA would likely have been her last stop, not her first. Her political ascendancy is a direct result of the women's movement, which has changed the world utterly for women of all persuasions. It is therefore notable that Palin has found her home in a party, and in a wing of that party, that for many years has reviled, repelled and sought to roll back the very changes that led her to the Alaska Statehouse.

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John McCain has been no advocate for women; when asked during the primaries, on the subject of Senator Clinton, "How do we beat the bitch?" he responded, "Excellent question." (Note to the GOP: that IS sexist.) He has been either hostile or clueless on issues like contraceptive funding, workplace protections and aid to poor mothers. And his running mate will likely walk in lock step with him on all those things. But she could certainly help move the inevitable tide of women's rights, the tide that has floated her own boat, by demanding that she be honored with the same tough scrutiny the guys in this race get. Which was, in case these improbable born-again friends of feminism missed it, the entire point of the exercise in the first place.

More at... http://www.newsweek.com/id/157543

Wow. Just wow. I don't think I could have said it any better!

[KaryninMiami]

1. Excellent- she's an amazing writer- this one needs to be sent around. K&R NT

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Agreed!

She captured not just the hypocracy of repukes and women's issues, but of their hypocracy about everything else the Dems have held near and dear. I suppose this is the "re-branding" of the GOP that everyone in the media was suggesting they do...

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

3. k

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Read the entire article to get the full gist

At first glance, the article quotes looked like it was saying Palin was going to bring real feminism to the Repubs. Thank God it had more sense than that.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Exactly.

It clearly points out how with repukes, now in addition to "red = blue", "up = down", "war = peace", you have "feminism = good", "promiscuity = acceptable".