A FEMINIST VOTING REPUBLICAN
By Dr. Lynette Long on September 29, 2008 at 6:00 AM in Gender Bias, McCain/Palin 2008, Misogyny, Sexism
Two weeks ago I published an article on my blog entitled, “THE X FACTOR.” The article went viral and is posted on dozens of blogs. I have received over 1,000 emails commenting on my position as a liberal Democrat voting for McCain-Palin. Most of the emails agreed with my position, but others called me Benedict Arnold, Lipstick Lady or Bill O’Reilly’s new squeeze. My loyalty to the progressive women’s movement has been challenged because I have chosen to try a different approach to fight for women’s rights. I want to start by squashing all rumors. No I am not stupid. No I am not a closet Republican. And yes I understand the possible implications on Roe v. Wade by supporting a McCain-Palin ticket.
A few days after posting the article I delivered a shortened version of the speech at a McCain-Palin Rally. An executive member of the National Organization for Women contacted me the very next day. It was a friendly conversation tinted with sarcasm. “How do you feel about your speech?” she asked me. “Great.” I responded. “Why shouldn’t I feel great? I gave a speech about women’s rights in front of a large audience. I highlighted the underrepresentation of women in every branch of government, the sexism in the media, and the unfair treatment of Hillary Clinton by the Democratic Party.” “Where did you give your speech?” A rhetorical question deserved a quip answer, “Before thirty-thousand Americans.” Republicans are Americans, aren’t they? “By speaking at a McCain-Palin event people will think you are endorsing McCain.” That’s the point, I am endorsing McCain-Palin.
I tried to explain to my comrade in arms that we have the same goals and that I stand on the same side of the issues with most other feminists. I am strongly pro-choice and will fight anyone who tries to interfere with a woman’s reproductive freedom. I believe in the economic and educational advancement of women. I believe in equal opportunity and equal pay for equal work. I believe in equal representation for women at all levels of government. I believe that only by achieving gender parity in the House, the Senate, the President’s cabinet and on the Supreme Court can women achieve real equality. The problem is not where we want to end up, but how we are going to get there.
I take offense that people think if I vote McCain-Palin that I am not a feminist. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
- I have worked an entire lifetime to further feminist causes. My first professional job was teaching remedial high school math to girls. I started a web-based business called color Math Pink to promote math achievement for girls and I was selected by the American Girl company to write Mathsmarts, a math strategy book for girls. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
- I have researched sex-role stereotyping and gender issues and published dozens of articles in trade and professional journals including Working Mother, Essence, and Ms. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
- I have fought for the rights of women rights every single day of my life. I point out the dearth of photos of women in the New York Times to the lucky person who sits next to me on an airplane, the lack of pictures of women on money to the wait staff at a diner, and I have been in a decade-long fight with the United States Post Office to put more pictures of women on postage stamps. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
- I coined the term “latchkey children” and defended the rights of women to work on national level. I have assisted numerous projects to improve the quality of childcare so that mothers could work and not worry about the safety of their children. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
- I am passionately pro-choice but I also think that it is not always a psychologically free choice. I have written a play which deals with the psychological complexities of abortion entitled, One in Two, which has been performed in New York, New Jersey, and Washington DC. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
I have spent decades coaching women on how to achieve more power in their personal relationships and in the workplace. If I am anything, I am a feminist.
I am voting for McCain-Palin and I am a feminist. Many feminists can’t understand my choice. I am not betraying the cause, the fight, the mission, because I don’t want to vote Democratic. The Democratic Party is not our ally. The Democratic Party is 60% women but it has only once selected a woman as a vice-presidential candidate and that was nearly a quarter of a century ago. We are chattel in our own party. The head of the Democratic National Committee has never been a woman. Money donated to the Women’s Leadership Fund is funneled into the Obama Victory Fund. We cannot give dominion over our bodies or ourselves to one party. Current feminist groups have no teeth because they are part and parcel of the Democratic Party. They are held hostage by Roe v. Wade. They know it and the Democratic Party knows it. The only way to regain our power is to regain our vote. The Democratic Party has no reason to earn our vote. We’ve sacrificed one choice for another.
I will by not be held hostage by the Democratic Party that turned a blind eye to the corruption in the Democratic primaries and Democratic caucuses.
I will not be held hostage by the Democratic Party that ignored a woman who got 18 million votes.
I will not be held hostage by the Democratic Party a party that was deaf, dumb and blind to the persistent and pervasive sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton.
I will not be held hostage by a Democratic Party that has never had a female head of the DNC.
I will not be threatened into submission. I will not cast my vote based on fear.
The Democratic Party cannot be rewarded for its pervasive disrespect of women. Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Sometimes you have to tear down a house before you can rebuild it. Most feminists think the Democratic Party will treat them differently during the next election. There is no next time. There is only this time. Reinforcing abuse only perpetuates abuse. In any abusive relationship, you have to leave to get respect. Abusers are often charming and apologetic and hold out the hope of better behavior. But there is no then, there is only now.
I am a woman and I am a feminist. To the other feminists out there I ask, “Where is your pride or are you a victim of your own misogyny?”
I am a woman and right now I am ashamed to say, I am a feminist.
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Wonderful post! Thank you very much! I completely agree.
Right on sister!!
Why do we have to vote for a criminal and Anita Hill hater in order to be feminists?
Screw that and forget Dem!
McCain/Palin ‘08!
Just this comment about Anita Hill does it for me:
I was one of the millions of feminists who watched in shock and horror as Anita Hill was pilloried in Biden’s hearings re Thomas. I have never actually recovered from that, the sight of such unmitigated male indifference to the realities of sexual harassment. I’ve stuck with the dems out of the perception that there was still room for all my sisters in that big tent.
But it is clear, isn’t it, that there is no more room in the tent. Pitching in with the repubs is not a 100% easy fit for me, but at least they are more democratic, and I think women can work with them.
So this radical lesbian femcrit is voting for McC/Palin.
That was him?
They really do hate women, don’t they?
That sure was the one and only Joe Biden!
Kal
I agree with you 100%. Ideology and dogma are not enough to take us to the hands of our abusers….The exDemocratic party will be cured of its Obamyopia soon. AS for that camouflaged misogynist BHO, all I have to do is to watch his youtube mega-hit and get repulsed over again at his disgusting disrespect and diminishment of his fellow female Senator Clinton (”Obama Gives Hillary the Finger”)
The media misogynist frat-boys and Obambi’s Campaign pushed Hillary out of the ring prematurely….No, I will never forget nor forgive. Right on!
Dr. Lynette Long rocks!
Dr Long,
Thank you for all of your work on behalf of women. You make me proud to say I am a feminist and help affirm what is the right path for us.
As I have gained more life experience, I have learned that we limit ourselves when we narrowly define people or ideologies. We are complex and have such a wide variety of experiences and belief systems that guide us on our journey.
We are at a time when we must reevaluate what our purpose is and how we have allowed others to define what a “good” feminist is.
I am so saddened to see women call themselves feminists and tear those of their own sex down with double standards and misogyny. What is happening to Governor Palin at the hands of other women is appalling to me.
Dr. Long, thank yo for giving women a bigger and more open minded vision of what a feminist can be.
Leisa
When I read Dr. Long’s statement
I realized that most of these women who call themselves feminists are their own worst enemies. They either don’t know their own history or are “enablers” of male chauvinism by their jumping on the Obama train of denial so quickly.
Where would we be if women and men feminists hadn’t laid their own lives on the line and suffered the indignities of imprisonment and brutality, both verbal and physical, to insure that women were equal under our Constitution and our Laws. I know one thing deniers of misogyny wouldn’t be doing and that is endorsing, working to elect or voting for the candidate Obama because they wouldn’t have the right to do so!
We can’t go back. We must go forward with or without those “feminists” anchors because we are better off without them than dragging them along behind us.
Leisa, you are so right-on!
Dr. Long, did you know that Bill Clinton talked about you on The View? He used your X-factor article as an example of why some people vote as they do. “Everyone’s criteria is different,” he said. It was most respectful!
I hope that you know that for every one of the 1000 replies you got to X-Factor, there are 10,000 more of us who agree with you, and support you 1000%.
Brava! Keep those wonderful posts coming!
Great article Doc!
I agree TOTALLY!
Keep fighting for us~! You have many many who agree with you and I think Bill C was talking about you when he was on the view the other day.
Saying he knew of a strong DEM Feminist Psychologist in DC who was now for McCain/Palin and told him it was because she felt NOW was the time.
I agree. If not now? When? Let it be a Republican woman. Let them clean up their own mess with new blood and leadership.
Certainly my X party of DENSE between the EARS DEMS are not able to handle it. The wussies.
GREAT POST! THANKS, LYNETTE!!!
I agree with you 100%. You are a brave MAVERICK FEMINIST and you enrich all women’s lives through your courageous stand.
We must stand above party lines, dogma and constricting ideological isles….It’s the only way to HONOR HILLARY’S WAY!!!!
Ditto.What LisaB said.
Doing the same Dr. Long!! I love your website!!!
McCain/Palin!
Ditto what Serena and Lisa B said.
Well done! It’s SO important to keep re-stating how we got this far, down this path, that we would never have expected to find ourselves.
Excellent! You have put in to words what many of us are feeling.
If I hear from one more person that I couldn’t possible vote McCain/Palin because of my values I am going to scream. The Democratic Party certainly showed where their values during the primary season.
I saw on Meet the Press yesterday morning that Bill Clinton referred to McCain as a “great man” and Sarah Palin as “impressive”.
Maybe you could refer your friends to that clip.
{{{CYN}}}
Sista good to see you here!!!
Hey, Goddess of the Mountains, good to see you, too! Whoever thought two DNC bloggers would end up here? I guess neither one of us is used to lock step.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/barney-frank-frankly-not-frank.html
The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis.
There is a nice chart at a linked American Thinker article that explains the connections.
BTW nice bit at the American Thinker on vote fraud as a tactic. Read it.
This bit on ACORN and their methods of vote fraud are especially good.
The American Thinker article is also linked here.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/acorn-is-not-about-nuts.html
Excellent, Dr. Long!
Thank you so much.
Dr. Long,
You state very eloquently what many of us feel seething out of our pores! I too am nothing if not a Feminist, and I cannot abide by the misogyny and discrimination being displayed by the DNC and organizations such as NARAL and NOW.
I guess along with the New Democratic Party we also have the New Feminists. Both are not even a shade of the original entity. Both are a disgrace to women, America, and the world.
This quote says it all. Thank you for speaking for all of us “old style” Feminists!
Thanks for writing this , Dr. Long. I find myself in the same position- and painful though it is, I see no other way out. I shall resign myself to being the recipient of tremendous disdain from those who simply do not get it and a party which cheerfully sells out the majority of its members to satisfy a minority. I am a feminist who believes in the rights of ALL women- even those who disagree with me. What a radical idea! It’s been a tough year, in every way. Here’s hoping for better days ahead.
Very well said! You speak for me too!
Meanwhile, Paul Krugman turned into an Obama surrogate too…Doing a hatchet job on McCain, is still honest enough to admit that Obama is no leader, just has a good team - sound familiar?
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/obama-no-leader-but-surrounded-by-knowledgeable-people/
I was a little stunned when I read Krugman’s article this morning.
Isn’t the “but he’ll be surrounded by knowledgeable people” the same argument made for George W. Bush?
Did it not occur to Krugman that Americans would see that point immediately?
Sheesh
IN THAT CASE WE CAN MAKE THE SAME ARGUEMENT FOR PALIN. SHE WILL HAVE LOTS OF KNOWLEDGE PEOPLE AROUND HER… AND SHES ONLY RUNNING FOR VP!
I think you have seen the light at the end of the tunnel…..I do not approve of abortion, Im pro-life…..
I believe that women like you are like the people in that movie that saw everything in life is normal, until you put on the special glasses, and then you see the propaganda signs and the aliens who run things…..It was the move with Rowdy Roddy Piper, the wrestler….
That is how some of you Lib women have lived for 30 years…The DNC has only advanced causes that HELP them keep power….The DNC will use any group, cause, issue to transform this country into a Socialist state….
You have seen the light….The DNC has put everything benind OBOMBA because they want SOCIALISM…..
Now we may disagree about abortion, but we must stick together to oust BO….
My mother has told me when she worked as an executive Secrtary, that her boss expexcted fresh coffee served to him every morning…..Thank God that a women can say get it yourself bub nowadays……
I hope that I am wrong in reading your post as rather condescending. Surely you didn’t mean it the way I take it at first read…..
IMHO forces in both parties have used abortion as a wedge issue to divide women and to “keep us in line” voting for the Party regardless of the quality of particular candidates they offer. I see no difference between the Democratic fear tactics Dr. Long discusses and those of zealots on the right who assume that every calamity in the country is collective punishment for the sin of abortion.
This may be true but unless the Democrats get the message loud and clear, there is no chance that they will ever “get it” and we will never have a political home.
But the Democratic Party claims to be on our side. They now want us to get in line, sit down, shut up and vote for the guy who isn’t qualified and really didn’t win.
Also this poster forgets that there are a lot of Republican pro-choice women who have sometimes felt alienated within their own party.
Good point. Same for pro-life women in Democratic party.
Dr. Long embraces the right of conservative women and liberal women to all be considered feminists.
Liberal Feminists seem to think that only women who think like they do are allowed to be considered feminists.
As women we are more than the sum of our parts and I personally am offended that only the topic of my womb and how I regard it makes or unmakes me a feminist.
I subscribe to Dr. Long’s 30% solution and now considered myself a Gynocrat.
Exactly. And they are blind to just how abusive the Democratic party is towards women and was towards Hillary. What makes it especially sinister is that the Dems are liars when it comes to supporting women. Just like Barack on almost anything, they talk the talk but don’t walk the walk, save for a few like Hillary and Patty Murray.
The Dems treat women like dog doo on the bottom of their shoes and throw us bone once every 24 or 30 years that they don’t really mean to support, aka, Geraldine and Hillary.
Exactly correct on the wedge issue.
I see it as a medical issue, and should be that only. The GOP uses it as red meat for the arch-conservatives, the Democrats use it to cow pro-choice votes. We had 12 years of Reagan, then Bush, 8 years of Clinton, and 8 years of shrub. The Republican party has controlled the oval office for twenty of the last 28 years.
Has Roe v. Wade been overturned?
No.
This one issue is not greater than the choice we have in front of us.
A thin man with a thin resume paired with the penultimate insider.
Or
An older man with experience and judgement necessary to lead, a history of bi-partisanship, paired with a woman with more managerial experience than both of the democratic candidates combined.
This is what Bill Clinton said to Brokaw about McCain:
Clinton went on to say that he admired the way McCain was able to overcome the trauma of his war experience and devote his life to public service.
KUDOS! I’ve been thinking the same regarding the abortion issue for awhile now. I only wish Obama voters using pro-choice for their basis would realize that. Your statement of our choice this year is also dead on. Great minds think alike.
The movie was “They Live” and it is a good analogy for the Oborg. I’m a feminist male and with Long all the way. I’m most assuredly pro-choice (if you have no control over your own body, then what civil rights do you really have?). Anyway, good post and good comments so far. (I’m in troll-ignore mode.)
HAH!…a friend of mine and I were talking about “THEY LIVE” just yesterday…in reference to how blind the obamabots are, and even some seemingly normal people who just aren’t into politics outside the sound bites in the media and the headlines on the front page of the newspapers stacked in the grocery stores as they pass by.
And you think the Republican Party is different–how?
The truth about abortion is that there’s a reasoned, middle ground but neither side is willing to look at it because they would lose political ground.
The truth about abortion is that it is MY business and NOT the government’s.
The truth about abortion is that it is an issue that’s been resolved long ago.
And should not be discussed anymore in a civilised country.
Nice Post, Dr. Long. I appreciate your honesty and guts.
I have asked these questions of a number of people, but I haven’t received a reply as yet, so I’ll post my question here, for those who are regular readers on NQ.
Of the 18 million who voted for Senator Clinton, how many do you believe will vote for Senator McCain vs. Obama?
How much overlap is there between those who read and post on No Quarter as well as other pro-Hillary/PUMA web sites?
It looks like somewhere on the order of 20% of Senator Clinton’s voters will throw their vote to McCain. I hope it is a lot more.
I have heard as much as 28-30% but polls differ on this so we’ll just have to wait and see.
Even if it’s only 5% it is significant.
If that five percent is distributed out over key battleground states, it could make all the difference.
see: Pennsylvania
I Have a Bracelet Too!,
I am so with you on this. I’ve decided to go to blogs and simply post that statement and say nothing else.
And did I mention?
I have a bracelet, too!
My husband was undecided but has come around after Obama tried to throw our hard-earned money to ACORN and LA RAZA. I’m hoping others will feel the same.
Someone said last night that ACORN has registered over 5 mil. new voters in the last couple of yrs. I hope that they don’t all make it to the polls, but with the new Obama voters and his methods of suppression and intimidation, Hills votes for McCain might just equal it out.
I am still stunned by all of this Police state politics.
I’d guess about 1 in 5. And count me in as another Feminist AGAINST OBAMA/BIDEN.
REMEMBER ANITA HILL
I’ll never forget what happened to Anita Hill as I watched in horror feeling helpless to stop it. Then, it was just sweeped under the rug. I’m so glad Dr. Long is bringing it up again.
I GO TO MANY BLOG SITES ON BOTH SIDES (WHICH GIVES A BETTER PERSPECTIVE OF A CROSS SECTION OF VOTERS) AND THEY SEEM TO RUN 8-2 AGAINST OBAMA, SO HOW CAN HE BE LEADING IN THE POLLS?
I’ve been asking the exact same question!
Just everyone I talked to online or offline has said to me that Sarah Palin mopped the floor with Biden, but the polls say otherwise…
There’s either something wrong with the polls… or something wrong with the “man on the street”.
Wonderful post Dr. Long!!
Sick of some of the women Obama supporters acting like women’s rights only consist of Roe vs. Wade & equal pay - neither of which Obama supports.
The sickening, hypocritical Democrat party will not ever again terrorize me for my votes.
Has anyone else noticed yet that the economy has become the new Democrat scare tactic since Roe vs. Wade failed?
Any woman Democrat who still believes that, especially after witnessing the despicable way Hillary Clinton was treated, is an absolute fool.
Yea, AS IF Obama is some kind of economic expert. The way people make most of their decisions seems to be very simplistic: “The other guy;” or “I like him better–he’s cool.” No wonder we end up with George Bush & Obama.
You are wrong on this — BO clearly and unequivocally supports choice and equal pay for his daughters.
He has said so many times.
Just, I think, not for existing women, and probably not for anyone else’s daughters.
Not a laughable distinction — his wife certainly has that equal pay thing cracked.
you may want to check into what Obama pays his own staffers, as well as the ratio of women to men in his own campaign.
Saying one thing and doing another.
But he treats white women, especially Hillary, like crap.
That’s what this is all about, COLOR OF THE SKIN. YOU MAKE ME ILL, LITERALLY.
Thank you for your work and an excellent article. As one who is more closely aligned with the Republican Party, let me assure you that irrespective of our personal views on the morality of abortion, there are many of us who do not believe it is the government’s business to make gut wrenching decisions regarding our reproductive rights.
Just as you are being attacked by those who claim the exclusive right to call themselves feminists, we have been attacked by the religious zealots on the right who seek to cram their views down our collective throats. It is time for women to stand up to the zealots in both parties who seek to manipulate us and use our passionate beliefs to entrap us.
Applauding loud and long your absolute common sense and honesty.
Once we all stop being Republicans and Democrats we find that we agree about a lot more than we disagree. We also find that name-calling and insults are not a productive way forward.
Just look at all the finger-pointing, name-calling idiots in Washington D.C. if you want to see how well that works.
I have found my experiences with the Republicans here in my state (MA-not just a minority party, an endangered species) to be very positive. We have some differing views, but my views are respected. I have spent some time calling undecideds in NH and the response is very good. I have been uncomfortable with the way my state just votes the same entrenched incumbent Dems into office, there is no competition, no real debate, no chance of a real challenge to the incumbent. Look at Cong. Frank, the puppet of FNMA & FHLMC, he has received millions in campaign contributions from the PACS representing them, the real estate, finance and mortgage industries. He does what they tell him to do, he is bought and paid for, and I for one will never vote for him or Kerry again.
Beautifully and articulately said! I keep trying to avoid political arguments; the Obama bullies keep flaming, conversationally and online. I think I’ll keep this essay in front of me, for when I despair. After 23 years, I’ve had to quit the NYT for its blatant pro Obama coverage, and now, most currently, its Sarah Palin witchhunt. So thank you! Where would I be without y’all?
PUMA
The NY Times has become absolutely shameless in their propaganda. I stopped reading it in march–it’s nothing but toxic commentary. I used to worry that newspapers were failing, now it can’t happen fast enough.
Where’s that wig post gone?
You said it all. Saluting you isn’t enough.
Good Luck to all of us, feminist. McCain help us to carry our cause. With Palin, we’re going to have the first VP in this country. DNC lose their chance and I’m abandoning them.
Get the posse together, that wig needs a’catchin’!
Eloquent as always, Heidi.
Your case against the Democratic Party is as solid as stone. But the essay does not delve into why a feminist would want to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket, as opposed to not voting or voting third party.
Why would voting for a party which has fought every feminist cause relentlessly for decades be the best thing to do at this point? I would think any feminist reading the essay would ask such questions.
Because Palin although disagreeing with abortion will follow the courts.
i.e. the Law is the Law.
Let me add that Republicans believe it is a States Rights issue not a Federal issue.
It isn’t a “State Rights Issue”..It isn’t a Federal Issue. It is a personal decision as an adult being their own moral agent; capable of making a decision as an American citizen; and a privacy issue.
yes they believe it’s a states’ rights issue becasue that way they have a better chance of overturning it piecemeal.
Voting for McCain will put a woman in the VP. Here we will have finally broken the barrier it will set a standard very high for our daughters. It will refute the old view that a woman cannot make it to the top halls of power without her husband’s coattails to ride on.
Hillary while brave and capable had some huge friggin’ coattails to ride. Bill opened many doors for her.
Sarah has done this herself with the loving support of a good man but no coattails. She has brought the energy to John McCain’s campaign (while John is a great leader he is not exciting)her personality helps McCain. Her strength
is softened only as a woman can be strong.
She speaks with authority about standing up to corruption and political old boy networks yet she never forgets she is a woman, a mother, and leader.
She sets a fine example and I believe she will do a great deal to raise awareness for child care issues, mideical insurance issues, special needs issues, and energy issues.
Everyday the nation will see how a mother juggles motherhood and it will no longer be a dirty secret that only women bear.
Exactly. Putting OBiden in we get another 4-8 years of the good old guys.
As an aside to your question.
I had the opportunity to hear Justice Sandra Day O’Connor speak last week. She spoke of her first job offer after passing the bar. The law firm said they might be abel to offer her a legal secretary job. Remember who nominated her?
Reagan
Maybe the best way to reform a party is from the inside. Perhaps a lot of us feel that the Democrats don’t deserve our support and need to be defeated.
I know that I can’t vote for BHO. I know I won’t vote for Kerry. And Barney Frank has his grubby little fingers all over the sub-prime mess, and won’t get my vote either.
Remember that McCain is not the idealogical darling of the conservatives.
I maintain that all Obama supporters are misogynistic and sexist. And Obama, I believe, is a raging homophobe. Let us hope women and members of the LGBT community will punish the DNC for their poor choices by voting for McCain-Palin.
Raging Homophobes are often covering up their closeted homosexual tendencies…not that i am accusing barack
larry sinclairObama of being a closeted self loathing homosexual, there is no proof that he is, but then again there is no proof that he isn’t and that raises serious questions….SIgned,
Jeremiah God Damn the Main Stream Media’s Lack of integrity Wright.
Seriously, I think Obama is actually gay.
I don’t care if he is gay, straight, or all of the above.
I do care that Obama is a fundamentally dishonest dirty politician who will do anything to win.
These silly ad hominem attacks (gay, manchurian candidate, etc) allow his campaign to deflect legitimate questions directed at Obama and his campaign managers. Stick to the actual facts, they are compelling.
Yes, I think Barack 0bama is gay, too.
And no it doesn’t matter. But what does matter is that he is in the closet about it. And I personally detest that kind of dishonesty for the reasons of personal ambition. It’s unfair to present yourself as one thing when in reality you are something else. And to be overtly homophobic about it really makes my skin crawl. It smacks of self-loathing, hypocrisy and cunning.
I would never vote for any candidate who harbored those characteristics. That’s why I didn’t vote for George Bush.
In some of the tv shots where Obama was in the background as McCain spoke, Obama pursed his lips and generally looked very fruity
So what if you think Barack Obama is gay? That is what you think. The thing is, IS HE GAY? I think you are simple minded for listening to all this hear say crap. What matters is FACTS.
Come to YOUR OWN conclusions by what you know to be the TRUTH. Do your own research, base your decisions on the FACTS. This is a competition and of course we are going to be subjected to falsehood, enuendos, and lies.
It has been said that the only reason Sarah Palin was chosen as V.P. nominee is because she is cute and pro-life, Is it a FACT? or is it something that was made-up by these folks paid by Politicians to start these blogs to sway the vote one way or the other? I was wrong to think you are simple minded, I do not know you, so how could I say you are simple minded when you are probably very smart.
You said it, Truthteller.
Oh, I thought that too since the first time I ever saw Obama. I thought here’s a guy that is in the closet.
Besides that, he’s just a freakin’ creep with his dubious associations and azzhole demeanor.
Dr. Long, your post rocks and so do you! I so admire your courage, intelligence, and work on the behalf of all women, even the ones who continue to allow themselves to be abused, disrespected and taken advantage of.
We need women of your caliber to stand up and say, I am pro choice but Roe vs Wade is not the only choice we women are fighting for. We are fighting for equality in our classrooms, work cubicles, boardrooms and yes, still even in our homes. Any woman who thinks Obama cares about that is not paying attention. He would have showed he cares about women and doing the right thing by offering Senator Hillary Clinton the VP spot especially when she should have been at the top of the ticket not second. BUT HE DIDN’T.
Yes Sarah Palin is pro life. That is a choice too is it not? When would we ever agree 100% with anyone on everything? NEVER. Look at all the people in your life that you admire and care about. Do you agree w them on every issue? I’m sure you don’t.
Palin is independent, strong, has integrity and character. At the very least, she deserves respect for that. She is opening the doors for women. Thank Dr. Long, those like you and Governor Palin and God Bless You all and God Bless America.