Can You Say ‘Sexist’?

Times are changing and they are changing fast. I find it astonishing that the people who boast of being open minded are finding themselves in a situation where they can???t keep up. Sarah Palin is here ??? change is here and I think the Democrats will be left behind in denial and clinging to the mantra that they are the ONLY ones that could have brought that change. In the end Sarah Palin will move forward not because of the liberal democratic version of the women???s movement but ultimately in spite of it. It won???t matter why or how the republicans stole your mantra ??? it will have just happened. I???d like someone to explain how 90%+ of Blacks support Obama ??? that would be interesting.

You fail to mention that the democratic party, the party that has always cradled women's rights, is all of a sudden saying that Palin should be staying home with her kids more so than governing a state or acting as Vice President. So while you think the Republican party has suddenly performed a 360, the democratic party has actually succeeded in achieving hypocrisy. Librals such as Sally Quinn have miraculously found their family values and are worried about Palin being able to balance motherhood with politics. I also find it amusing that you poke fun at Palin's lack of experience when Obama only spent 100 some odd days in the senate, much of which planning his rockstar campaign. The democratic party is the party that has succeeded in being sexist and unfair. While librals barely gave Hillary any air time because the left wing media was soaking up the 'messiah,' Republicans elected a woman as their vice presidential nominee. So in a few months, Republicans will have the satisfaction of being the first party to have a female vice presidential candidate, not the Democratic party.

Extremely well put! I am a 55 year old woman and I was insulted that the Republican party thought that just because Palin has ovaries and I have ovaries that I would be stupid enough to vote for her. And yes the Republican punits did say in the beginning that the choice for Palin would pick up a large sector of Hillary voters, then they flip flopped and on that when they saw and heard the contrary, the outrage from Hillary voters. They simply underestimated the intelligence of women yet again. Palin's policies do not advance woman's issues in any way shape for form. She is from the stone age and wants Creationism taught in our public schools--evidently she thinks the Flintstones is a documentary. Palin is anti-choice and anti-equal pay. She and McCain have no new ideas about the economy or rising medical insurance costs. Palin is a neophite and should be grilled by the media on her knowledge and stance on foreign affairs and national security--because she would become President if anything happened to McCain. All American's should be terrified of that possibility. Palin has been described as very vindictive, secretive, and abuses her power. McCain has a hair-trigger temper and is out of touch with the needs of the average American. Don't be fooled by the "maverick label", McCain/Palin are mirror images of Bush/Cheney. And this country cannot afford even four more years of that same trainwreck!

Thirty years ago we fought to make abortions safe and legal for women, but we recognized that it might not be the only choice for all women. We called ourselves pro-choice, not pro-abortion, because it sounded better and because we agreed on respecting women's rights to choose to carry or not carry a pregnancy to term. I'm appalled at the so-called pro-choice warriors questioning a woman about her personal choice.

Dear Cold, What Sarah Palin has done is to distract people who are trying to take her seriously with absolutely no complete vetting of this person. If you vote for her just because she is this or that, then you are a fool, too. How many priests and ministers have to show up on the front page for you to realize that you can't judge a book by it's cover. What Palin does is allow Republicans to go into that fantasyland they love - with Rambo and Superwoman - and erase the notion that each and every person who voted Republican bears responsibility for the mess we have - the mess Republicans ignored in the convention, ignored when people were crying, and ignored while they partied.

Obviously, a liberal feminist is a female too narrow minded to take her own side in a quarrel.

Where is Sarah?

Where did the yippy and nasty chihuahua in lipstick run to ?

Ms Quindlen perhaps you forgot to mention that a GOP feminists doesn't set herself up as America's victim unlike a democratic feminist. Furthermore, the leaders of the democratic feminists movement belong to the botox, plastic surgery, geriatric crowd each unable to force a human expression on their faces without the help of a backhoe. I'll take Palin every time, human faults and all.

Funny, this thing. I am seeing a lot of articles from sympathizers of Democrats that amount to, "Wait, you (Republicans) never complained this furiously when we (Democrats) were tearing down Hillary. So why are you stopping us from trashing Sarah Palin?" Yes, that is infact what Democrats are complaining about. They like to think that Republicans trashed Hillary and so they are being quite hypocritical in getting all defensive about Sarah. Yes, Republicans have gone after Hillary. Yet, what Republicans did is nothing compared to what Democrats did to Clintons in branding them racist. Even Republicans didn't have the chutzpah to cross that line. There is a reason why Hillary Clinton/her campaign called FOX most balanced in their coverage of
Funny, this thing. I am seeing a lot of articles that amount to, "Wait, you (Republicans) never complained this furiously when we (Democrats) were tearing down Hillary. So why are you stopping us from trashing Sarah Palin?" Yes, that is infact what Democrats are complaining about. They are now trying to argue Republicans trashed Hillary and so they are being quite hypocritical in getting all defensive about Sarah. Yes, Republicans have gone after Hillary. Yet, what Republicans did is nothing compared to what Democrats did to Clintons in branding them as racists. Even Republicans didn't have the chutzpah to cross that line. There is a reason why Hillary Clinton/her campaign called FOX most balanced in their coverage of the Democratic Primary. As a longstanding Democrat/Hillary supporter who remembers very well the Republican treatment of Clintons, I was stunned by how much more brutal/merciless the Democrats were. At least Republicans had a reason - they are the opposition. I am no longer a Democrat because what justice can you expect from those who tarnished a United States President of their own party with the racist card. A President who was called Blacker than Black by a noble laureate who knows a thing or two about that color.

Ha ha ha! Loved your article! I am amazed at how many people think this woman is qualified to be VP. Hats off to Karl Rove or whoever came up with this brilliant strategy. It certainly caught everyone off guard and made them forget to consider the actual issues. Hopefully the voters will come to their senses and look at her record and positions on the issues rather than her personality, hairstyle, and glasses.

I see so much fear from left-wing feminists on Sarah Palin...abortion is their sacred cow and they just cannot get past it; they just cannot, despite 30 years of scientific development that shows us that babies in the womb are not just a blob of tissue. Thankfully, there are a whole generation of women who have regretted their decision, and have passed on their tragic experience to their own daughters (when they finally had them.)

So, evidently unbknownst to the feminists who live in their own little bubble, countless homes and charities have been established by those stuffy right-winged ideologues to stop the perpetuation of the awful lie of abortion being a woman's right. They've been there for over 20 years sowing seeds of life into a new generation of women who compete with vigor in the workforce but will not go down the path to abortion