Palin & Fair Market Value of Women

Well, it’s about time that Republicans noticed that the women have the biggest balls in the room.

Republicans did a complete about-face, if I may quote Rudy Giuliani,
“How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has enough time to spend with her children and be vice president? How dare they do that? When do they ever ask a man that question? When?”

Was that a flying pig that just flew by my head? Am I in a frozen hell? Pinch me, am I dreaming?

Sarah Palin knocked the gender issue on its ass last night at, of all places, The Republican Convention.

There is virtually nothing I don’t respect about the woman. Except her politics.

I won’t participate in the national ripping apart of Sarah Palin because I fundamentally disagree with parts of her worldview.

But, the bloodlust of the audience scared me.

The cheering as she spoke of how ridiculous or silly our constitutional protection of warrants in search and seizures of our citizens was a RED Flag. Nazi Germany didn’t need silly things like warrants. It is one of the things that sets America apart from fascists, I guess unless a Republican gets elected.

There are people in this country who like war. They believe its good for our economy and they are motivated by their short-term profits. They believe it somehow makes us safer to keep an aggressive position. Certainly an aggressive position will always keep us at war. Which really is pretty good for the economy. That’s the logic.

Several times last night commentators and politicians declared that Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party and I think that’s fantastic. I don’t see how it could be bad for women to have women represented in both parties.

I watched more than one speech by a strong and successful woman last night.

Meg Whitman shared her secret of success – pretending sexism didn’t apply to her and believing it too. It appears to be an effective strategy.
“And when I began my business career, female executives were still a novelty. She knew if I worked hard and delivered the results, I would succeed in this remarkable nation.

Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard said, “As a woman, I support him because I know he values the contribution of women to our families and to our communities,” Fiorina said. “… As a business person, I support him because I know his programs will strengthen small business, foster growth and create jobs.”
“One of the things I have been told by many, many Democrats over the last several months is how disappointed they were in their own party for not standing up against the sexist smears that Hillary Clinton endured,” she said. “The Republican Party will not stand by while Sarah Palin is subjected to sexist attacks.”

I’ll tell you what, Republicans sure as hell wouldn’t be taking the pro-woman road if Democratic woman hadn’t been so upset about Hillary.

Democratic women raised the “fair market value” of Republican women.

I’d be interested to know whether these three women raised the fair market value of women in their own corporate and government structures.

Did they choose to pay women equally and offer family medical leave of their own volition, without regulation?

There was also some talk among newscasters and pundits about this election being a “cultural war” between small town and urban America.

I don’t know if I see that.

What I do see is that this election might just be about fear and trust.

Either you trust The Government to govern effectively and serve The People or you fear The Government and think they’re out to get you and your money (To what end? Government doesn’t operate for profit.)

Now me, I trust The Government more than I trust The Corporation due to the whole voting thing and my constitutional right to participate. The Corporation is responsible for most of the complaints I have currently – cause there’s virtually no regulation protecting Citizens.

Democrats don’t think it’s a sin to tax corporations, regulate corporations or insist they deliver what they advertise for a fair price.

Republicans seem to believe that if Corporations are required to pay their people a fair price, and insure them, then they’ll go out of business. I’ve seen My Sweet Sixteen often enough to know that Corporations in America can afford to do a lot more than they’re currently choosing to do. They need regulation because their only basis for making choices is short-term profit.

Also, I have to point out that BOTH Barack Obama and John McCain claim “they won’t raise taxes.”

Who’s taxes? That’s what I want to know.

Exactly who is McCain talking to when he says this? Middle-class families like mine or just corporations? Let’s get specific about this.

Barack Obama says he won’t raise them for people making $250,000 or less. Which includes my family. In fact, he says he’ll lower mine. Obviously, I’m down with that.

Does John McCain’s no tax promise include me?

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