So why do you attack her on "Personal" Issues, that have nothing to do with her ability to be VP?
On Oct 3, 5:01 am, wncs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I can clarify a few things. I do not hate Sarah Palin. However, > I do not think she is the best choice for VP of this nation. Those are > two completely separate things. > Secondly, the fact that I do not think she would make a good VP has > nothing to do with "me" because I don't fit any of those criteria: > a) I'm not too liberal to function... I'm middle of the road > b) I'm not fat > c) I'm not ugly > Sorry to disprove your assertion, but I don't hate Palin, and the fact > that she won't make a good VP has nothing to do with me and everything > to do with her. > > On Oct 3, 7:27 am, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My personal polling indicates the women who hate Palin are either: > > > a) Too liberal to function > > b) Fat > > c) Ugly > > d) All of the above > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Travis > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:20 AM > > Subject: Re: Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin > > > I am glad I have no knowledge of my ex's whereabouts. and haven't for 30 > > years. Excellent article. thanks. > > > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Cold Water <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why Some Women Hate Sarah Palin > > By Belinda Luscombe > > > Some polls are suggesting that after gaining an initial bump, McCain's > > campaign is being hobbled by Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy. The > > voters who are deserting her fastest, some of whom are even calling on her > > to withdraw, are mostly women. > > > Ah, women, the consistently, tragically underestimated constituency. What > > the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be > > finding out the hard way, I learned at my very academic, well-regarded > > all-girls high school: that is never to discount the ability of women to > > open a robust, committed, well-thought-out vat of hatred for another girl. > > > Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it > > too. When women get their hate on, they don't just dislike, or find > > disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe — deeply, > > richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also > > love in more or less the same way. > > > When men disagree, the steps to resolution are reasonably clear and > > unsophisticated. Acts of physical violence are visited upon one another's > > person or property, and the whole thing blows over. Women? Nu-unh. We savor > > the discord. We draw it out. We share our contempt with our friends, like a > > useful stock tip, or really good salsa. And then we all go hate together: a > > mutually encouraging group activity for when the book group gets quiet. > > > The hatred women have for Sarah Palin, and others had for Hillary before > > her, is not necessarily about politics. Anybody can run the numbers on how > > many people Palin's pro-life, pro-gun, socially conservative policies will > > seduce and how many they will alienate. Rather, the test that the McCain > > campaign failed to put her through was the Abbotsleigh Ladies College test. > > (Named after my high school. Go, green and gold!). It's a simple > > three-point pass-fail exam: Will the other girls like her? > > > Here's why Palin doesn't make the grade: > > > 1. She's too pretty. This is very bad news. At school, pretty girls tend > > to be liked only by other pretty girls. The rest of us, whose looks hover > > somewhere around underwhelming, resent them and whisper archly of their > > "unearned attention." So, if everyone calls your candidate "hot," you're in > > a whole mess of trouble. If the Pakistani head-of-state more or less hits > > on her, well, yes, she'll get a sympathy vote, but we're in > > Dukakis-in-the-tank territory. It's an admiration vaporizer. (Of course a > > candidate can't be too ugly, or it will scare the men, who are clearly > > shallow as a gender.) > > > 2. She's too confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem > > issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman > > — from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth — > > can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and > > you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's > > about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until > > 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky. > > > 3. She could embarrass us. History is not on Palin's side. Every time a > > woman gets a plum job, be she Hewlett-Packard's ex-boss, Carly Fiorina, or > > CBS's Katie Couric, there's always that whispery fear that people will > > think she got the job just because she's a woman. So if things don't go > > well — and a couple of YouTube clips have suggested that they're certainly > > not going well for Palin — women are the first to turn on her for making it > > harder for the rest of us to louse up at work. > > > The fact of the matter is once a female decides it's over with another > > female, it's like an end-stage marriage. No matter how seemingly benign, > > every attribute becomes an affront: the hair, the voice, the husband, the > > moose-shooting, the glasses, the big family, the making rape victims pay > > for their own rape test kits. > > > I know, I know. With all this extra baggage a female candidate has to > > bear, the chances of finding a woman whom other women won't hate seem > > skinnier than last year's jeans. But don't despair, if all else fails, we > > could just do what we always do and just vote in some guy. It's worked so > > well for us in the past. > > > a.. 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