Nope, I am not agreeing with the National Organization for Women, who called Sarah Palin a "conservative man", in exposing themselves as leftist ideologues, rather than true feminists, in the process). What males like me like about Sarah Palin (just not enough, in my case to overcome my political distaste for McCain) is that she is like the real women we observe out here in the real world: feminine, and not wanting to be the same as men, but tough as nails (tougher than men, on a personal level).
Who was it that "choked up" about their personal experiences in last night's debate? Hint: It was not Sarah Palin. She is able to talk about her son in Iraq, her Down's Syndrome baby, and go through the abuse of her pregnant daughter without choking up, and almost crying. Joe Biden seemingly cannot talk about the difficulties in his life (great tragedy when his first wife died, and his children were injured, but it happened long ago, and he is remarried to another woman and his children are well). Was it totally phony on the part of Biden? My brother said it was. I did not see that part of the debate (as I continue to regard debates as pretty much unimportant--although his one had more important than most because the campaign of personal destruction against Sarah Palin by the mainstream media).
It does not really matter whether Joe Biden was being "phony" or not. Do we really want a man as President or Vice President who cannot control his emotions better than that, or who is trying to play on our sympathies with a "crying moment". Even Hillary Clinton (another tougher woman), did not go that far when she talked about how hard it was to be a woman running for President up in New Hampshire.
Yes, it is another "double standard" moment. What if Palin had "choked up" like Biden. The sexists in the mainstream media, and on the left, would immediately have said it made her unqualified to be Vice President, and represented an attempt to get sympathy as a woman.
Well, I have no double standard. And I have recently discovered I am more of a feminist that the mainstream media and leftist Democrats (redundancy). Therefore, I am wiling to say it:
We don't need a crying man (especially over old wounds) a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I would much prefer a tough, if feminine, woman (if only I could stand, politically, her male running mate).
P.S, I have mentioned before George Stewart's book, "Ordeal by Hunger", about the Donner party wagon train, in the 19th Century, who were trapped in the heavy snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains on the way to California. The people were reduced to cannibalizing the dead to survive. As George Stewart said, the women survived better than the men. George Stewart asserts that this was usually the case, in most stories of extreme hardship and survival in the Old West. The story of Tamsen Donner is still one of my favorites of the spirit of women in the Old West. A rescue party finally arrived. Tamsen Donner was alive to be rescued. But her husband was ill, and at another camp some miles away through the heavy snow. There were more heavy snows on the way. The rescuers could not wait for anyone to go try to get Tamsen Donner's husband--a dying and perhaps already dead man. No further rescue was likely, in time. Tamsen Donner made provision for the raising of her children with other family members. Then she walked off in the snow to her dying (actually dead) husband. George Stewart said something like this: "They say of Tamsen Donner that, as she walked off in the snow to her husband and to her death, that she never looked back." I can see Sarah Palin as Tamsen Donner. I cannot see Joe Biden with that kind of character, no matter how many times he "chokes up" to reveal his "sensitive" side.
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