Sarah Palin Honors Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton
August 29, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
Palin’s Keeping it classy… Not only does she give credit to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for paving the way. She also wants to shatter the 18 million cracks left by Hillary Clinton…
Now let’s see, whose decision shows real desire to bring about change? McCain who is the first Republican to select a woman as his running mate, or Obama who selected a (white) man who has been in the Senate since 1972? Hmmmmm. That’s a tough one… Not really. Obama talks the talk, McCain seems to walk the walk…
I really like who McCain chose for his VP. I was thnking it was going to be the obvious choice…but he surprised everyone. I am impressed.
Now that I think about it, some months ago I saw her name with his in the news…haven’t heard from her lately. He must have been keeping this under his hat until now.
Good Judgement Mr. McCain.
You have my vote.
This is an obvious ploy to get the Hilary supporters. And I will be devastated if it works. I thought we supported Hillary of what she stood for, not because she is a woman. And if we vote for Palin just to spite the DNC, then what did we work for? We certainly didn’t further the issues we worked so hard for.
There’s so much talk about how gender isn’t the only reason PUMA’s would have voted for Hillary, yet they will defy every issue on which Hillary’s (and Obama’s) campaign is based to cross party lines (another affront, considering “Party” resides within the PUMA acronym) to vote with a ticket that has (surprise!) a woman!
I’m not sure Hillary would appreciate working so incredibly hard to punch 18 million cracks into the glass ceiling so a complete unknown can step in, do the easy work and claim credit for the ceiling finally shattering. Especially a woman who embraces and embodies every conservative platform on every issue we voters are facing this November.
I dont believe any self respecting Hillary supporter would vote for Palin. She or McCain don’t agree with Hillary on ANYTHING! I don’t see a reason to vote for her. It’s not the DNC’s fault that Obama was elected. It’s the Obama supporters. I am going to continue to work for Hillary by voting for Obama. Hillary wasn’t there for us to make history. She was there to keep moving forward. I voted democratic for Hillary in the primary, and I will vote democratic again. The vote will go to Obama, but in my heart, it will be for Hillary.
AntiPUMA: For those of us that were rooting for Hillary just so she would break through the glass ceiling, it wasn’t because we wanted Hillary to do it, we just wanted it to be broken.
And for those of us that voted for Hillary for her experience and stance on the issues, we each have to decide whether the experience of McCain and the chance to teach the DNC a lesson are enough to vote for someone who we don’t neccessarily agree with on everything. (Writing in Hillary’s name is also in the mix.)
And HillaryRules, she does agree with Hillary on some stuff (though I can understand if not enough stuff for McCain to get your vote): her big agenda in Alaska was raising windfall profit taxes on oil companies.
If you want a woman in power, vote for McCain/Palin. That’s a no-brainer.
If you want women to be empowered, vote for the candidates who have done the most for women as a gender and class. Reproductive choice? Social equity? Personal freedom? Education? Avoidance of gratuitous military aggression?
A woman will be in the White House within the next 20 years. It could be Hillary, but it could also be Sarah Palin or Katherine Harris for that matter. Certainly there are women out there who could hold power, but then due to their politics use it to the detriment of women.
Female chauvinism is not feminism. Having two X chromosomes and being a desirable leader are not mutually inclusive definitions. Please don’t be the sort of woman that would vote for a female Stalin just because she’s female.
oneforone: I understand your wanting to see a woman in high office, but Palin is for overturning Roe v. Wade.
So many women fought for the right to choose, is it worth taking that away just to see a woman in a new position of power?
ONEFORONE:
You are being so incredibly ignorant it’s almost painful. No, it is painful.
Yay, let’s teach the DNC a lesson by electing someone who will put in Supreme Court Justices to overturn Roe v. Wade!
Yay, let’s elect a guy who will overturn the Violence Against Women Act!
Yay, let’s elect a guy who will have our children stay in Iraq for another 15-20 years!
Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em!!!
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Obama won the election fair and square. In fact it was Hillary who got desperate and went negative, not Obama.
Get over your hurt feelings and vote the issues.
And if you stop and actually think for a second, that ain;t McSame.
I am a woman who supported Hillary. She is brilliant, experienced in a way few women or men are. She would know how to step into the Whitehouse and take control over a country.
I am completely insulted by McCains choice of VP. It is like he thinks women are stupid and interchangable. I can’t imagine why someone who loved Hillary would not see this as a rediculous Hail Mary from McCain.
This woman has done nothing. She has run a tiny little town. I think I could have done that. She has been a governor for a second.
I am not one to give Obama much credit, but it seemed his pick was not only to gain political points, but to round out his weak points so he could be a better president.
What does Palin do for McCain’s work in the Whitehouse? Nothing. It is a political transparent manuver. If he were to pass away or become unable to serve during his presidency, I have no faith that she would know what to do. When that phone rings at 3 am and it is Palin to answer the phone, I just picture her forwarding the call to Cheney.
For a man (McCain) who consistantly claims that he puts his country before himself, he has done the opposite.
I am completely disallusioned. I will probably have to vote 3rd party. Maybe Obama.
Voting for McCain is a personal decision I made that was by no means easy. But I think for me it comes down to Bill Clinton’s person X and person Y speech. I’d rather vote for someone I know can come through and get the job done then someone who I agree with on everything.
Roe v. Wade was obviously an extremely important consideration in my decision, but I decided that since (1) we have a Democratic Senate that will never approve someone who would tip the balance (2) there’s no way we can lose the majority in the Senate in November given the high level of animosity towards Republicans (3) the party not in power in the White House always wins seats in the midterm election, with the exception being 2002 when everyone was brainwashed over 9/11 (4) McCain is a one-term guy, I’m willing to vote for McCain.
There’s also a great point I read on another one of the blogs: If having the same stance as Hillary on the issues was enough to vote for someone for President, 18 million of us would be running for President. It was not only her views but her sound judgement, impressive resume, and strong force of will that made us vote for her.
Geraldine Ferraro must be getting senile if she thinks this is a good pick and will get Hillary supporters to McCain’s side. I proudly voted for Mondale/Ferraro way back when, but will definitely NOT be voting for McCain/Palin.
I hope you all see through this desperate shot for winning by picking a woman, and a woman who is clearly not qualified for the 2nd highest office in the land, not to mention her views, which are as right wing as they can be. Hillary would not want you to do this. Wise up! Are you people stupid or what?
excuse the previous post where I said Geraldine Ferraro had thought this was a good pick, I see now that that is not the case. Sorry, Geraldine! However, the second paragraph stands! Vote Obama/Biden!
Oneforone:
1) What is this nonsense about “I’d rather vote for someone I know can come through and get the job done.” McCain will get the job done alright; he’ll adopt policies and put people in the gov;’t that are OPPOSED to what you SAY you believe in.
2) The Democratic Congress will not be able to block a pro-life nominee from the court. if we stop the first one, he will simply keep appointing them, and when that happens a few times (and you can bet the appointees will have said very little about Roe that we can nail them on) it will be very difficult to keep blocking them one after another. The public narrative in the press will become “Why are the Democrats blocking the president’s appointees?” and ‘Isn’t it time to move on?” and we’ll get a conservative on the court. Bet on it.
2) There is no way to tell that McCain is a one-termer. If ever I thought someone was a one-termer, it was George W. Bush. Was i ever wrong on that.
3) I agree that Senator Clinton has good judgment and all the rest. The problem is that with everything else that she represented, she could not get enough votes in the Democratic primary. Political power and the ability to affect change is directly proportional to the amount a person wins by. And she didn’t even win among our own party. And a serious case could be made that she could never get over 50% in a general election. That is a serious flaw, and one that can’t be ignored, no matter how much we all admire her.
You’ve got to be kidding! There’s nothing classy about Palin. She’s an inexperienced snake in the grass hoping to scoop all the power and glory from all the hard work Hillary has actually done. If that idiot dies in office and she becomes the first woman President, those 18 million cracks in the glass that she shatters will be shattered by a complete fraud!
I’m a Hillary supporter to the end. But the first woman President I want to see in office is HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON not some backwoods, gun-toting, beauty queen, phony Republican who doesn’t have a clue about what’s really happening!
And, I agree, in those debates I want to hear Sen. Biden say “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a good friend of mine. And you, Gov. Palin, are no Hillary Clinton!”
On this one Obama got it right. There was no way he could put a woman on the ticket that wasn’t Hillary. And Hillary didn’t want to be on the ticket. She’ll be the most powerful Senator in Congress.
McCain got it wrong.
oneforone, what lesson exactly are you teaching to the DNC? You’re willing to screw this country over, keep us in an expensive war, trust the economy to a man who has acknowledged he knows nothing about it, take away a woman’s right to choose, betray every reason you voted for Hillary so you can “teach the DNC a lesson”?
Except you’ll find the lesson that will be learned is that you shouldn’t purposely sabotage an election so your candidate can get another shot, because in the end all those devoted Obama supporters that believed in the dream will be awfully angry and will make sure someone else other than Hillary will get that spot on an 2012 ticket.
But I’m sure you’re doing what you think is right.
Big D:
1) When I say get the job done, I mean, for instance, that if there’s a 3AM foreign policy moment, McCain can handle it, unlike Mr. Let’s Bomb Pakistan.
I would have agreed with Carter on all issues in the 1976 election, but I still think he was incompetent and screwed up the country. I think Obama will do the same thing.
2) The liberal press will say “Why doesn’t McCain compromise with the Dems and give a pro-lifer?” And McCain has a history of compromising with us, especially after Bush burned him in 2000.
2.1) At 76?
3) If it had been anyone but Obama, we would have won no questions. But the media loved Obama so much that they narrowly pushed him over the edge by giving him tons of free ads by constantly vouching for him and insulting Hillary in the most sexist ways (I.e. Chris Matthews saying Hillary only got to run because her husband slept with a fat intern.). And I’m pissed because the DNC should have, at the very least, put out press releases condemning the sexist comments made in the media.
Hey oneforone don’t forget I’d like to hear your reply to my post, the one above yours?
BTW Mccain’s record says that he agrees with Bush 90 percent of the time. Sexism? Evil Obama? Do you have any facts or did you just think this up?
To whomever wrote. “Palin’s Keeping it classy… Not only does she give credit to Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for paving the way. She also wants to shatter the 18 million cracks left by Hillary Clinton”
I aplogize but are you so delusional that you don’t recognize when a handler has give her a few things to say and included this manipulation. Why aren’t PUMA types insulted that Republicans feel that your depth on any of the issues is so shallow that you will put it aside just for vote for body parts. Do you really beleive Palin has some high regard for Hillary Clinton. You are like the evangelicals who are inclined to vote for whoever bs’s them the most.
I have yet to hear one compelling argument from anyone who is voting for McCain (so they claim) because they don’t have Hillary. Margaret Fuller would roll over in her grave if she saw this nonsense. Stop acting like a bunch of silly girls who are pouting because they didn’t get their way. It’s undignified. Uou fit every sexist prejudice. I would be ashamed if my daughters took any example from you.
If Hillary becomes the candidiate after all do you run back to her? I guess any port in a storm when you
really just want to be noticed.
And furthermore stop with your constant cataloging of every stupid comment you think a man made that
offends the santitity of womanhood.
Men are assholes We know that. You raised us. Do a better job. They make out every man on a sitcom is moron. You don’t hear us complaining. I love my mother, my sisters, my wife and my daughters. I am thankful they all show more confidence, more security and more
practicality about the real problems we have to deal with in this country.
She wants to shatter the 18 million cracks Hillary made? She’s anti-feminism. I bet you can’t find a single pro-Hillary statement Palin made prior to the moment Obama started to take HRC’s inevitibility status.
I am a 65 year old post counter-culture, 60’s activist, peace protestor, anti-war, liberal democrat. Being a man I can’t claim to know how a woman is inspired by Hillary Clinton and how you feel about your hero loosing, but I do know how it feels to lose your heroes. I lost John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy. I remember how angry I was when Bobby was killed. I kept thinking, “they killed him; every time I find a person I can believe in they kill them”. Damn them to hell! It took me a long time to deal with my personal feeling of rage and bitterness at the loss of those great leaders and what they could have done for our country. Hillary’s political views were forged out of that same tumultuous period of history and I believe she probably had similar feelings. I think, at that time, all who really cared felt the pain of lost opportunity.
However life goes on, and as happens when you get older, my idealism has become balanced with a pinch of pragmatism. Now, as a lifelong democrat, I am writing you of PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) to remind you that it was the liberal democrats that supported and fought for the “Equal Rights Amendment” while conservative republicans opposed and killed it. The republicans have long been and still are on the wrong side of women’s issues; minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, Medicare prescription drug coverage, and universal health care. These are issues Hillary has fought for and John McCain, has voted against, and if elected you can be sure John McCain would appoint more conservative judges to the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade. I hope that those of you who were around, and can still remember, will pass down to the younger women what it was like before Roe v. Wade. I remember when it was not un-common for young women, who had no choice, to be found dead from an illegal abortion that had gone tragically wrong. A woman’s right to choice should not be the concern of government then, now, or ever. Roe v. Wade should be protected at all cost. While I understand that some of you are bitter and want to demonstrate at the ballot box your anger over Hillary’s loss you shouldn’t forget the beliefs and policies she was fighting for and that she will continue to fight for as a unified democrat.
I ask that you stand back from your feelings and consider what a vote for McCain/Palin would mean to women’s issues. The way I see it a vote for the republican ticket would be counter to everything Hillary Clinton stood for and tantamount to committing political suicide.
Bill Sides
Hana, Maui, HI
I am actually going to give Palin a chance. I would like to see how well she does in debates. With the outcome of the primaries, I will pay closer attention to debates. Right now, I just Obama as a talking head with no real plan for action, just saying what people want to hear. Although, Obama has voted similar to Hillary, he has criticized her on her vote for war. She is in a no win situation. If she didn’t vote for it, then it will look like she turned her back on NY, which was attacked. Obama was not in the US senate in 2001. He was not in the Senate in 2003. He was elected to the Senate in 2004. I bet if he was in the Senate during those times, he probably would have voted for it on the evidence that was talked about. So I am very causious about my vote this time around.
Actually he was a represenative 2001 and had the opportunity to vote no that way.
Thanks Guest,
But if it was Illionis that got attacked instead of New York, do you think he would have voted against the war? Do you think he would have gotten re-elected if he voted against the war? He attacked Hillary for it because it wasn’t his state. No one has ever turned the tables and questioned Obama on that.
There are a whole lot of what if’s in your statment. What if Hillary was the senator of Illinois, would she would have voted for the war then? It was a popular decision at the time, and Illinois contains the second largest city.
All of you running for the GOP ticket now that Hillary is out are disgraceful…and you obviously have no concern for the issues that will shape the country.
Hillary would be extremely disappointed.
As far as McCain voting with Bush 90% of the time, don’t forget that most of those bills passed unanimously. Which would mean that many of our own Democrats voted with Bush also. C’mon most of the hardline conservatives HATED John McCain because he clashed with Bush so much. BTW how many bills did Obama author??? I’ve said before it is a sad state of affairs when the rethugs VP choice is more qualified than Obama our pres. nominee. My family’s well being and security is worth way too much to gamble on Obama who has actually done NOTHING!!