Palin’s Re-entry Motivates Other Women to Run…
November 30, 2009
by The New Agenda
|A major premise of The New Agenda is that women in leadership roles – in any venue – would serve as role models and push other women to have the courage to step up themselves.
Patricia Sullivan
Whether Sarah Palin decided to run for political office or not, her re-entry into public life is causing a stir. One of the most positive bi-products of Palin’s re-entry is that women are reportedly motivated by Palin to run for office themselves.
FOX is reporting - in Florida:
Patricia Sullivan, a mother of four who is running in the Republican primary to take on Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Florida’s 8th Congressional District, says Palin’s authenticity and rejection of Washington elitism inspired her to launch her own political run.
- “Liz” Carter
In Georgia:
Lisbeth “Liz” Carter of Atlanta is planning a run for the Republican nomination to battle Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson in Georgia’s 4th Congressional District. She said Palin possesses a quality that many career politicians lack: common sense.
In Alabama:
Denel Wardell, who is running for a state senator seat in Lauderdale County, Ala., told FoxNews.com that Palin’s views inspired her to seek office.
Getting more women into public life empowers us all. You go girls!
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Wonderful to see women stepping up to the plate to run for office, especially when the reasons are career politicians lack of common sense, and an elitism amoung them. On most blogs, people complain about one politician after another, and it’s great to see women coming forward to do something about it.
Most of her female haters will just say that these are the wrong sort of women to want to run for office. Only women like them deserve to have a chance in a democracy to put their ideas forward and turn them into action.
Feminists fear women more than anyone else. They really do think that unless she’s the goddamned sinless Blessed Mother with nary a hair out of place that her assumption of office will blast the Earth into a slagheap.
Me, I figure that if women can govern smarter than men, then we just elect a shitload of them no matter what and see how things settle out. Are women so dangerous and uncontrollable that we can’t afford to do that? Even if women aren’t any better than men, think of the two choices:
1) A world filled with war, global warming, and traffic jams, where women can’t run for office without being subjected to nonstop sexual humiliation, or
2) A world filled with war, global warming, traffic jams, and where half the government is female.
Which world would you rather live in? even if that one difference is all we get, that’s enough for me.
Congratulations and thank you to all of the women who are stepping up to the plate – no matter where they fall on the political spectrum. Several progressive blogs that are owned by women have been discussing what the next step should be for women politically. It’s sad that most of the conversation on the blogs suggests that many left-leaning women are still more likely to continue to align themselves with left-leaning men than to throw their lot in with centrist and conservative women. Given how little progress they’ve made using that strategy in the past, one would hope that they would be more open to trying something new. It really does feel good when you stop banging your head against a wall. I hope that the centrist and conservative women I know will draw a circle large enough to include them and issue the invitation because it may be the only way women unite. “He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win. We drew a circle that took him in.”
I’ve seen a few of these conversations. They don’t leave me hopeful. I found it hilarious in that “laugh or else you’ll scream” sort of way that one of them said, right at the outset: “No women’s party. Forget it, it’s DOA, w’re not doing that next idea.”
The only thing I could think of was how, in ANY discussion of how to solve a huge political problem that is destroying us, the first thing we do literally right out of the gate is take the solution off the table.
Health care debate? First thing that happened: NO SINGLE PAYER. Single payer gone. Off the table, forget it, no way.
California’s budgetary meltdown? First thing that happened: The 2/3 supermajority rule is off the table as a topic for discussion. Forget it, won’t happen.
And now this. The political landscape of the country completely shifted and threatens to destroy the nation because both sides can’t stop hating on pussy. First thing: No women’s party. Forget it. Ain’t gonna happen. As the first goddamned thing everyone concludes!
OMFG NO! We can’t do the ONE THING that will solve the problem!!!! That’ll cause the Earth to til off its axis! Fire, floods, rains of frogs! *rolls eyes* The goddamned first freakin thing we take off the table in all instances is the actual solution.
And I’m sure they’ll all be the first people to defend it with the old jokes: “It’s marginalizing! It’s too controversial!” Forget how they lambaste congress for doing exactly the same thing over health care and single payer. Forget how they laugh at the California lege for doing the same thing with Prop 13. They’re doing what they sneer at, snark over, and mock when it’s done by professional politicians. The anvil is headed toward our heads! What do we do! First thing we all agree on: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WE GOING TO DUCK.
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