womanhood?"

Uh, not.

She's an extraordinary example of hubris.

And let's not mention her totally inappropriate serial winking, which I won't mention.

a tongue click, if not two. I think she's channeling grandpa from The Real McCoy's, I expect her to call Pepito in from the barn.

I love this job!

It makes it very difficult to focus on her strengths with these idiosyncratic mannerisms. But I will try. I will try to better than this.

I love this job!

Q: Is making a choice to deny other people the right to make their own choice an acceptable choice for all? Honestly, I want to hear some ideas.

palin isn't a 'feminist.' i can walk and chew gum at the same time; obama isn't making me excited about the coming 'democratic' admin but i'm not interested in defending palin. no sir, no way. yuck.

i don't have to talk about her cunt or tits to come up with a long list of reasons why she sucks, and why i don't want her to be in charge of the bomb. let's start with the stupid. it buuuurns. she's so annoyingly lite and shallow it's painful to contemplate, as well as what her elevation means for american politics in general.

i skimmed this post thinking it was another reminder of how "our" organizations in the Village are as out of touch as the Village itself. but i see we've still got some diehards here, who aren't willing to act like real feminists and treat palin soley on the basis of what she is. college dropout, weathergirl, beauty queen, hypocrite, adulterer, tax cheat, book burner, lousy mom (you don't put infants on the stage. period), suck up, separatist, animal hater, fake populist, oil company stooge, anti-environmentalist, bible thumper, witch hater, science denier and fundie republican.

yeah. go on and get behind all that. because you're a "feminist" and you think she's being treated unfairly. whatever.

Feminism 101: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2004/10/feminism-101.html

Lauri Owen wrote into the NAAFA LA yahoo group: As your token Alaskan, I am writing to let you all know that Sara Palin, John McCain's pick for VP, is not a fat friendly soul. She has been known to say some very derogatory things about fat people, including when she recently insulted an Alaskan Representative by referring to her in public, with a sneer, as a "fat-ass." If I were a Republican, her overt fatism would motivate *me* to vote Demo this time. A vote for McCain/Palin is most definitely not a vote for increasing fat acceptance. p.s.: This attitude is particularly outrageous considering the extraordinarily high percentage of fat Alaskans. Trust me on this: We are not amused. ______ As I wrote my reply, a thought came into my head, and I carried it onto the page.... ----- I wouldn't want to stereotype all mainstream beauty pageant participators, but fat-positive thinking is not generally the indoctrination for that crowd.

 http://election411.org/blog/id/3529136/race-gender-and-white-house-part-2-sarah-palin#comment-152

That is Palin's personal belief and she certainly has walked her talk. But I have yet to see anywhere that she has worked in any way to deny that right to another. Or that she intends to.

Choice is supposed to be just that. If she chooses not to avail herself of that option, that is no less valid a choice. It's all about women having control over their own bodies, is it not?

Now apart from her eschewing abortion for herself and thinking it's not right for others, her Republicanism, (and the fact that she brought her infant children on stage and skinned them alive while fucking three men and burning her tax books while wearing a bathing suit and being obviously inferior to outraged female posters here) why can't another woman find her admirable without that being appalling?

That is where we started this, isn't it?

And BTW - being a Democrat doesn't make you automatically superior these days, either. So we better find something other than party affiliation for dismissal of other humans as inferior. How about...religion?

words aren't "just words." If even words don't always mean everything, they always mean something. Is the argument that we're supposed to deny our lying eyes and ears? Really, what horrible thing would she have to do to end the apologism?

This thread is about a Palin endorsement. Everything else is a red herring, no? I never accepted the OFB's "well, Hillary did it, too" in an argument about Obama, and I'm not going to accept as a valid answer distractions from the subject matter, here. I think the question is what your point is, really, by bringing up other politicians in a thread about a Palin endorsement.