Sarah Palin Quits

Scandal plagued failed GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin Has Resigned as Governor of Alaska

The Wasilla Dingbat gave another bizarre statement to the press trying to explain why she made such an erratic move, raising more questions than answers. There are many rumors of another "iceberg scandal" coming, and people close to her claim she is out of politics. Or is she really dumb enough to think she has a shot at becoming president in 2012?

Of course, Palin's lack of any qualification to be President, her lack of intellectual ability, and her poor job performance as Gov. of Alaska, don't keep the penis-hating, vagina-loving right-wing "Feminists" at Tennessee Guerilla Women from defending the anti-feminist, religious fanatic from the "women-hating" liberal media....Never mind that Palin had more support from anti-feminist conservative MEN than from women!

(The TGW blog sounds more and more like a Phyllis Schafly Eagle Forum Newsletter!)

This article refutes the TGW Palin victimology propaganda:
The MYTH of How the Media Destroyed Sarah Palin

Eugene Robinson: "Victim" With a Constituency

The Real Story Behind Palin's Bombshell

Robert Perry: Sarah Palin's Latest Crazy Move--Are Republicans a Danger to the Republic?

Feminists Losing Debate on Abortion

Feminists are Losing the debate on Abortion.

Most Americans now "Pro-Life"

A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion and 42% "pro-choice." This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995. The new results, obtained from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs survey, represent a significant shift from a year ago, when 50% were pro-choice and 44% pro-life. Prior to now, the highest percentage identifying as pro-life was 46%, in both August 2001 and May 2002.

A year ago, Gallup found more women calling themselves pro-choice than pro-life, by 50% to 43%, while men were more closely divided: 49% pro-choice, 46% pro-life. Now, because of heightened pro-life sentiment among both groups, women as well as men are more likely to be pro-life. Now nearly half, 49%, of women are pro-life, only 44% are pro-choice.

Men and women have been evenly divided on the issue in previous years; however, this is the first time in nine years of Gallup Values surveys that significantly more men and women are pro-life than pro-choice.

How did feminists lose the debate on Abortion? I think they failed to recognize the moral complexities involved in abortion, making it only an issue of a women's choice, with no recognition of another life involved. Even most women do not reduce abortion to just the women's choice. There is another life involved, and abortion is KILLING a human life.

As an atheist, humanist, and yes a feminist, I support the legal right of women to end a pregnancy under some circumstances, but even I cannot ignore the moral cost of abortion in all circumstances. I oppose the right-wing attempts to make all abortions illegal. It is essential that women have the legal right, and the ability, to end pregnancies when it affects their health and well-being.

However, the argument for keeping abortion legal and safe cannot ignore the moral issue of the life of the fetus. Like most liberals and progressives, I consider myself "pro-life" in the sense that I think it is a moral imperative to support life in all situations. I oppose war and the death penalty (why aren't the "pro-life" Catholics and religious groups protesting those??)

I don't have all the answers, politically or morally, but there is something wrong with the mainstream liberal feminist approach to abortion that has failed to address the moral issues involved in abortion. They have tried to ignore completely that abortion is taking a life, and by not wanting to face that issue head on, they are losing the moral and political debate on abortion, even among women.

LET ME REITERATE--I support women's reproductive rights, including abortion. I have been in protests supporting abortion rights, and have escorted women at abortion clinics. I'm concerned about how to make a more effective moral and political argument to keep abortion legal. Abortion cannot be simplified as just the right of the fetus vs. the right of women to choose. We have to find a way to change the debate.

UPDATE: Good discussion in the comments section on this.. I'm re-evaluating my argument/view on this...

Here's another point of view:
Why "Choosing Life" is a False Choice

Isn't is possible to be "pro-life" and "pro-choice" ?

MS Magazine: Obama is a Feminist!

Oh, the anti-Obama, male-hating sexist PUMA "feminists" have their panties in a wad over MS Magazine putting Barack Obama on their cover and calling him a "Feminist"!

It's really amazing that the Obama-haters over at TN Guerilla Women, still bitter that Obama beat Hillary Clinton, continue to cling to their delusion that HILLARY CLINTON is a liberal or progressive! (The Guerilla Womyn even thought Sarah Palin was a "feminist"!)

Obama is not as progressive/left as I wish he was, and I'm going to be very critical of his centrist moves, but the idea that Obama cannot be a feminist (or that NO men can be!) or that somehow Hillary Clinton is more of a "feminist" than Obama is ludicrous!

The anti-male feminism of these "womyn" is dying away and a new wave of "feminists" who don't hate men and automatically assume that every women is a feminist is gaining strength. The old anti-male sexist "feminism" is DEAD!

MS Magazine: Visions of Change

Now GOP Plays Gender Card Against Palin Critics

GOP Plays Gender Card Against Palin Critics

Now the Republicans are using another tactic from the Hillary Clinton playbook--play the gender/sexism card everytime someone criticizes you.

The issue with Sarah Palin is NOT her sex, it is that she is UNQUALIFIED to be V.P. or President!
The issue with her pregnant daughter is NOT the morality of her daughter, it is the political hypocrisy of McCain and Palin supporting abstinence only "sex education" (which obviously does not work even in the home of the religious fanatics who oppose real sex education!) and opposing the legal right of women to end an unwanted pregnancy, even in the case of rape or incest!

You would think that REAL feminists would be concerned about those issues!

The Media is missing the real issue, and the Republicans are getting away with using the gender card to blunt any real criticism of their candidates!

Here is the REAL issue:

Gov. Sarah Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

McCain (and Palin) Oppose Funding Teen Pregnancy Programs!

Why Do (Some) Feminists Hate Barack Obama (Black Men)?

Ferraro: "They're Attacking Me Because I'm white"

There was more fallout today from Geraldine Ferraro's Racist Attack on Barack Obama

Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif.: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

This from a woman who was chosen to be Walter Mondale's V.P. partner ONLY because she was a woman! And she was so dull she made Mondale look charismatic!

Hillary Clinton tried to distance herself from Ferraro's comment, sort of:

Clinton said, "I do not agree with that," and later added, "It's regrettable that any of our supporters _ on both sides, because we both have this experience _ say things that kind of veer off into the personal." (Ferraro is STILL part of the Clinton campaign.)

Obama called Ferraro's comments "patently absurd."

"I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party. They are divisive. I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd," he told the Allentown Morning Call. "And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either."

Ferraro is pushing back: Ferraro is pushing back and standing by her statement:

"Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says, 'Let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world,' you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," she told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, California. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"

Why do Ferraro and some Pro-Hillary Feminists HATE Barack Obama? They are so envious that a black man is beating their candidate that they make outrageous sexist and racist attacks on Obama and his supporters!

UPDATE: Politico's Ben Smith dug this past comment by Geraldine Ferraro on Jesse Jackson in 1988:

A Ferraro Flashback:

"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.

Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.

Here's the full context:

Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."

Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.

Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."

Here's MORE of Ferraro's racist rants on FOX NEWS!

Why Does Geraldine Ferraro hate black men??

UPDATE: Ferraro Steps Down From Clinton Fundraising:

Full letter:

Dear Hillary –

I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.

The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you. I won't let that happen.

Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.

You have my deep admiration and respect.

Gerry

I don't think we've heard the last from Gerry...

UPDATE: Keith Olbermann "Special Comment" to Hillary Clinton

Kennedys Endorse Obama

Sen. Edward Kennedy Gave a Rousing Endorsement to Barack Obama today along with his son Rep. Patrick Kennedy and niece Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK. Sen. Kennedy took several jabs at Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill must have really pissed Ted off!

But not all "feminists" are happy! The NY NOW Slams Ted Kennedy for "Betraying" Women! I guess Toni Morrison also betrayed women by endorsing Obama.
(NY NOW should be ashamed of themselves, they give feminism a bad name!)

Both Kennedy and Obama Include "Gay and Straight" in their speeches:

Obama's inclusion of the community came while he was discussing the legacy of hope that both John and Robert Kennedy inspired in people.

"And it lives on in those Americans -- young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight -- who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was President of the United States of America," said Obama.

The insertion of "gay and straight" was a departure from the script of Obama's prepared remarks, forwarded to news outlets ahead of the event by his campaign.

Kennedy, who spoke before Obama, made a similar reference to the community. "With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion," he said.

"With Barack Obama, we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group and straight against gay." (The Advocate)