Sarah Palin: All Palin All The Time, It’s Her Day, Bitches (I’m Reclaiming The Word), Deal With It!–UPDATED

UPDATED: Since Barack Obama is letting his band of merry men and the press run roughshod over another female candidate, and since the press is just an extension of Obama’s candidacy, I thought I’d honor Obama’s contribution to forwarding women in America:

I shall start with The Anchoress because she rocks. Church ladies are cool and if you haven’t figured that out already, you need to hang out with more church ladies. She calls the Democrats drama queens, heh:

4:44 Fun thing to consider: Palin is the same youthful age as Obama and she HAS NOT written two biographies. What’s up with that? Couldn’t she manage a book? A book is a good thing; TWO books make you more qualified to be president than almost anyone! Of course, one could argue that Gov. Palin had no time to write about her life because she was out LIVING it, and actually changing things, rather than just writing about it. Not that there is anything wrong with writing! Living a life, though…living an AUTHENTIC life? It takes both audacity and hope. And I think Sen. Obama knows that, too.

Moderately liberal female law professors are cool too. Ann Althouse knows the pain of being an unsubmissive feminist. I can only imagine her email right now. She says of the Eagleton meme:

You know, I remember the McGovern campaign. I was a big supporter of McGovern’s, and I hated Nixon, as did all of my friends. And the scenario then was completely different from what you are seeing now. We were never excited about Eagleton in the first place. We just wanted McGovern to win. Eagleton didn’t infuse new energy into the McGovern campaign or jazz up am important subset of voters. He was just some boring Senator that got slotted in. And then he brought nothing but trouble and distraction as the news came out that he’d been hospitalized for depression 3 times and had receive electroshock treatments. It wasn’t just that there were a couple of old political controversies or a family member was less than perfect. We were getting significant new information about his brain, the brain that we might need to rely on to make presidential decisions. It was simply not acceptable, especially since he’d also withheld this information from McGovern, which showed some really poor character.

Peggy Noonan is a Republican, has ovaries and worked for Ronald Reagan. It’s a trifecta of evil. She says:

Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

She could become a transformative political presence.

So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.

And it’s going to be brutal. It’s already getting there.

Lorie Byrd (who I had the pleasure of being on the RWN Radio show with last night–she has a great voice) wonders if the backlash against the Palin hate begins tonight:

6. Maybe after the viewers realize the Obama camp has been misleading them about her experience and that the caricature many Democrats have painted of her over the past week has been far from reality, they will question whether or not they can trust team Obama. Maybe they will even wonder why the media didn’t seem to know any of this either. If the stars are aligned right they might even decide the media intentionally misled them.

Michelle Malkin dissects the anatomy of Conservative Female Abuse:

The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. MSNBC hosts insulted former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s accomplished wife and mother of two, Jeri Thompson, as working the stripper pole. Newspaper cartoonists Ted Rall, Pat Oliphant, and Jeff Danziger caricatured Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a mammy, thick-lipped parrot, and Bush “House Nigga” armed with “hair straightener.” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd derided former GOP Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris for applying “her makeup with a trowel.”

Michelle also quotes Tom DeLay who says this:

The media has done more for John McCain in the last two days than he’s done for himself in the last year and a half,” [Tom] DeLay said. “Trashing her is waking up the sleeping giant, and the sleeping giant is Republican women.”

Buy the shirt, “I am Sarah Palin. Her story is my story” at CafePress, here.

A movement is born: “I am Sarah Palin.” I’m going to say this nicely: Feminists, Democrats and the press, You have fucked up royally.

More coming. I’m a mom, you see. I need to get my kids off the bus, give them a snack, help with homework, clean up and that’s after working today talking to my office manager, returning emails, touching base with patients, and blogging. You know, that whole working-mother thing.

Updated:

Cassy Fiano on the media claiming that McCain is playing the “sexism” card:

There’s a good reason the media and the left have been attacking Sarah Palin so viciously: they’re terrified. They’ve resorted to lying, to demonizing and attacking her seventeen-year-old daughter, making stories up about her four-month-old son… anything they can do to scare and intimidate her. Too bad for the media that Sarah Palin doesn’t seem like the type to be easily intimidated. But, they’re outraged because there’s this conservative woman who is brilliant, tough and principled, all the while raising a big family and sticking to her values, that they never approved. If Sarah Palin was “Steve” Palin, these attacks wouldn’t be happening. But, Sarah Palin lit the country on fire, and no one had permission to do that except Barack Obama. So, the media is outraged. They see themselves as the real gatekeepers to the White House. They’re the ones who get to decide elections. And they didn’t give their permission to John McCain to choose Sarah Palin. The only solution for them is to attack Sarah Palin in some of the lowest and most despicable ways.

Irony, thy name is Media.

Neo-Neocon has a suggestion for women considering accomplishing, well, anything, become a Vestal Virgin (vaginas we can believe in!):

Through the clever installation of a modern variant of the Vestal Virgin institution, candidates would become immune to cries of abandoning or neglecting their children by having had the temerity to run for high office, with its attendant demands on their time (since it is obvious, of course, to any thinking person—especially feminists on the Left—that husbands cannot possibly take up the childrearing slack).

Furthermore, if these female candidates have no children, it follows that they cannot possibly be embarrassed by having a child with flaws—for example, one whose life decisions at the age of seventeen are anything short of perfect. And if the candidates are sacred virgins, they would obviously be free to fly about the country on airplanes without the need to ever field criticism for so doing. Another advantage is that, without a spouse, they could never be embarrassed by anything their husbands might have done in their own youths.

Brilliant idea!

I Hate You Sarah Palin (must.read.whole.thing) via RightVoices:

But, seriously, just look at the negatives: she’s a popular first-term governor, she’s a woman, she’s happily married, she has five kids, one of them with Down’s syndrome, she’s a maverick, she’s from way beyond the Beltway, she’s taken on both the Republican Party and Big Oil, she shoots automatic weapons, she can kill a moose with a butter knife and fillet a sea lion with a smile, her husband’s a roustabout Eskimo snowmobile champ, she’s a hockey mom, she was Miss Wasilla, she looks like she should be playing Cecily, the saucy librarian, in Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, and she doesn’t wear pantsuits. Heck, she hasn’t even appeared yet on Meet the Press! I mean, who in his right mind would vote for her?

Sure, if she were one of ours, not only would we have nominated her by acclamation, since she fulfills every trope of feminism except for her unfortunate and inexplicable opposition to murdering unborn children, we would also have made at least two TV movies about her life, celebrating her choice to have her fifth child and the announcement yesterday that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and is going to marry the teenage father of her child. That’s the kind of heartwarming, inclusive, empowering story we love — she’s like Juno come to life as Juneau, set in Mystery, Alaska.

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