McCain and Palin Don't Care About Women

It appears that this move, electing a woman as the VP candidate, was strategic on behalf of the Republic Party. But when it comes back down to the skin and bones of it all, women in America should be appalled.

Palin is a beautiful woman, indeed. And if the Presidential election is no more than another pageant (history AND science will tell you that we like attractive people), surely the McCain-Palin ticket will win. Palin is a strong woman, juggling a family with several children and her various leadership roles throughout the course of her own history. This is admirable and sounds much like the career women of the millennium.

She is firm in her anti-abortion views, which supposedly, for women, isn't a make-or-break issue. But how can it NOT be? I know there are millions of Catholics, religious fundamentalists, and others who believe abortion is wrong--but women worldwide have been and continue to be controlled and given second class status. Abortion rights is a tool that people in power use to limit women's choices.

You don't have to BELIEVE IN abortion. I hate that term as there is nothing to believe in. You don't have to get an abortion yourself, or be affiliated with people who are pro-choice. You don't have to prove that a zygote is a human life or defend what you think is God's plan. You must support a woman's right to choose what is appropriate for her body and life without judgement. A woman that doesn't support this invites society to impose other restrictions...next it will be limiting the number of menstrual cycles and enforcing mandatory HPV vaccines!!!

Palin is 44 years old with an infant that has down syndrome. Anyone that has a child with this disease knows that a great amount of time and attention must be devoted to nurturing and raising him. She also has 4 other children. Although she is not a single mother, parenting potentially consumes much of her time...but how can it, if she has Vice Presidential candidate affairs to which she must attend?...

I am disgusted by the fact that McCain would bother to consider Palin as a VP. The fact that he was trying to make a bold statement is irrelevant and only the clouded mind cannot see beyond it. What he has done is torn a woman from her family, from her children, in order to confuse the fence-sitters and Hillary Clinton fiends.

And what has Palin done wrong?...She has accepted it.

I don't mean to set women back a hundred years and propose that our place is in the home; however we have to prioritize. Is it career and money, fame, then family, or the other way around? Palin will go down in history, but how will her children that need her remember her? She isn't taking on a job in a small town where she can retire at the end of the day, put her feet up, and feed her baby. She is taking on the politics of a fucked up America.

Women are warriors, and women are superheroes, but this attempt conflicts with maternal instincts. If Palin should be so courageous to sever her maternal bond, she should be so willing to stand up for women and their right to choose, because what she has done is choose her career OVER her family. If you are a woman, something about this should cause discord in your heart. How will she handle other issues that threaten our survival?

And McCain? Well, obviously, he doesn't give a damn, (just like Bush and his "issue" (hint, hint, Black people)). He's just an old man that loves pretty, young ladies.

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