Tantaros: Sexism not an issue for libs if Palin or Bachmann targeted

Misogyny, to libs, knows no bounds, as long as it's looking to the right
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Andrea Tantaros figures that Sen. Chuck Schumer saying that the three branches of government are the House, the Senate and the president is "perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever heard a politician say." Burt just imagine if a Republican woman had said that:

She would be called stupid. She would be mocked on cable news and spoofed on "Saturday Night Live." Her credibility would be questioned, and if she were attractive, she'd be discounted as a dingbat or a bimbo.

But that's not the case here. Schumer's gaffe was met with little fanfare or ridicule from the mainstream media. His interviewer, Candy Crowley, a shrewd veteran journalist, didn't even question his error.

Granted, mistakes are made on live television. And Schumer was probably tired. People in the public eye talk so much that they are prone to more verbal flubs than the rest of us. For example, when President Obama said there were 51 states, and mispronounced corpsman ("corpse-man," he said). But while Republican women like Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have been impaled for lesser missteps, Schumer and Obama can always expect a pass.

GOP women have been called names for doing a lot less than Schumer, or for doing nothing at all...

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The most egregious example, of course, is their despicable treatment of Palin. When Palin shouted at a Tea Party rally this past fall that, "We're going to party like it's 1773!" the left was quick to pounce, calling her an idiot. "She's so smart," came the sarcastic Twitter commentary from Markos Moulitsas, founder of the liberal blog Daily Kos.

But it turns out that Palin is smart - smarter than Moulitsas, anyway. The Boston Tea Party happened that year. So even when Palin gets it right, she is accused of getting it wrong, while her smug liberal critics escape relatively unscathed. Maybe if they spent more time studying history and less time trying to humiliate Palin, we wouldn't have such glaring examples of a double standard.

These days, it seems like the last acceptable form of prejudice is expressing hatred toward Republican women without fear of retribution.

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- JP

Lorie Byrd: Why Conservative Women May Save the Country

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Excerpts from Lorie Byrd's latest Townhall.com column, in which she recognizes the example set by Gov. Palin as one of the reasons why so many women have become involved in the political process:

Sarah Palin has been an inspiration. Many women watching Palin in the 2008 presidential race saw themselves. They might not be former beauty queens or Alaskan hunters. They have not served as governor of a state. But they saw a woman who came to hold office not by being born into privilege or being a Rhodes scholar, but by working her way up from the local level. They saw a woman who became involved in her community -- starting on a small city council, then as a small town mayor, then as governor.

They saw in Palin, unlike some other female politicians, a woman who did not see her femininity as a weakness, but instead embraced it. They saw someone who wasn’t a Harvard law school graduate or a policy wonk. They saw a politician who looked at the world from the perspective of a wife and a mother.

They saw the mother of a son serving in the armed forces, a pregnant teenage daughter and a young son with Down syndrome.

Palin’s example showed them that life experience and common sense were qualifications to represent their fellow citizens every bit as much as a blue blood pedigree or an Ivy League degree. After all, the people with the law degrees and decades of experience in public office haven’t done such a great job of running things lately.

Palin isn’t the only woman who has inspired so many women running today. Some of the women in Congress like Michele Bachmann -- and my state of North Carolina’s Representatives Virginia Foxx and Sue Myrick -- have as well. But strong conservative women role models are just one of the reasons so many women are politically active and even running for office today....

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Fire From The Heartland, a new documentary from Citizens United, shines a light on the dynamic conservative women who are reinvigorating the movement. Here's a preview:


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Sarah Palin inspires record number of GOP women candidates

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Alex Spillius, The London Daily Telegraph's man in Washington, D.C., writes in the paper's Sunday edition about how Sarah Palin and others, including U.s. Representatives Michele Bachmann and Marsha Blackburn are providing new role models for conservative women in a Republican Party that was written off after the 2008 election as too male, too old and too out of touch:

"They are not clones of Sarah Palin, but they have far more in common with her than with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B Anthony List, which supports anti-abortion female candidates, referring to the Democratic Party's three leading female liberals.

"They tend to come from traditional backgrounds. They have had kids, maybe gone back to work and are now in a third act of life running for office," said Mrs Dannenfelser, who paid tribute to the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s for breaking down barriers that conservative women have taken much longer to traverse.

Republicans have traditionally lagged far behind the Democrats in attracting female candidates and voters. Of the 73 female representatives currently sitting in the House of Representatives, only 17 are Republicans, while the party has only four out of the 17 women senators.

The closest the United States has come to a female president - a feat accomplished by Pakistan 22 years ago - was Hillary Clinton's failed bid for the Democratic nomination when she was narrowly defeated by Barack Obama.

Issuing a clarion call, Mrs Palin has argued that commonsense female values are needed at a time the US is heavily in debt. She has dubbed her conservative female followers "mama grizzlies", for their determination to defend the futures of their young.

That particular moniker may not have quite stuck as planned, but conservative and anti-abortion activists have no doubt that the former Alaska governor's example as a working mother has persuaded many others to get involved, as well as making female candidates more popular in conservative constituencies.

"There's an unsettling of the political apple cart," Mrs Dannenfelser said. "Sarah Palin kicked the door open and a lot of women started going through."

The rise of the Tea Party movement, which treats Mrs Palin as a spiritual leader, and its anger with President Barack Obama's heavy-spending agenda, has also encouraged more conservative women to run for office, activists say.

Spillius says the GOP hierarchy has finally realized that it needs to recruit and elect female candidates. Where Sarah Palin leads, eventually the Republican establishment will have to follow.

Read the full Alex Spillius column here.

- JP

Fox News video: 'Mama Grizzlies' are Fed Up

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Sarah Palin says they're like momma grizzlies. The 2008 vice presidential candidate has inspired a number of conservative women, mostly moms, to run for public office:



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Quote of the Day (June 15, 2010)

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Mark Levy:

"On Tuesday night, the mantra 'I’m a conservative woman, hear me roar' echoed from California to South Carolina. The left cannot fathom how a woman can be a feminist and also have conservative values. That is why Sarah Palin drives liberals crazy — she is strong, successful, anti-abortion and popular. Let’s see how the left tries to tear apart the likes of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorino this fall."

- JP

Sarah Palin inspired growth in roles of conservative women in movement

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The Conservative Political Action Conference last week has shown that women's roles in the conservative movement have only grown, and the first woman to be the vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party has inspired some of that growth, says FOX News' Kelley Vlahos:

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter delivered a rousing speech Saturday, and Sarah Palin, though not in attendance, has been a constant reference point at this week's annual conference in Washington, D.C.

One panel discussion, "Going Rogue: Women Changing the Face of Conservatism," took its name from Palin's recent book about her experience on the campaign trail as the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. Panel participants said conservative women still promote "family values," are pro-life and clearly still disdain the feminist movement that told girls they have to work and put off raising a family.

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Women acknowledge that while a united front might not always be possible, they can all enjoy the fact that they have made great strides as women. For all the criticism and controversy swirling around Palin, she has helped fire up conservative women, said Zoelle Mallenbaum, a student at Wellesley University.

Conservative women are "still discredited" by liberals on campus, Mallenbaum said, adding that Palin sends an inspiring message -- that conservative women are "out there and unafraid."

Coulter quipped that Gov. Palin has actually created more jobs than President Obama:

"She's created at least 11 jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography," she said.

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Lloyd Marcus: In defense of Sarah Palin & conservative women

Lloyd Marcus speaks out in an American Thinker op-ed about conservative men, Sarah Palin and other conservative women:

It is time we conservative guys start acting like men and defend our women folk (a little cowboy lingo). Since her acceptance speech as McCain's VP nominee, attacks on Sarah Palin have been vile, extremely vicious and beyond the pale. Even Palin's family including her 14 year old daughter were targeted for destruction by an, dare I use the "E" word, evil media. The Left's hatred of Sarah Palin is good vs. evil. Palin's book tour is pouring gasoline on the Left's "destroy Palin at any cost" fire.

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I believe strong women inspire men to be strong. They are not offended when we open the door for them, carry their heavy packages and mind our conversation around them. Or has such behavior from men become too "Andy and Mayberry" for our secular progressive crude culture? Trust me, I am not a prude, but radical feminists have diminished women's power in our society. I was raised to believe that a real man treats women with a level of respect. Nobody is allowed to "dis" your momma, wife or your sister.

Sarah Palin is a breath of fresh air; a woman using the God-given power of her femininity to be a mom, a wife and govern a state. Awesome. I would be honored to say, "Yes, Madam President".

Not only is the Left committed to keeping women in their place, but blacks as well -- all the while claiming to desire progress and liberation for both.

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Then along comes Sarah Palin; happily married, a happy mom and effective governor. Feminists should regard Sarah Palin as their hero; a shining example of women's liberation enjoying success in both words, family and career. But instead, the Left seeks to destroy her. Palin is too happy, too good, too pretty, too effective, and most intolerable, too powerful.

Marcus' musical tribute to conservative women -- "Our Girls" -- can be previewed here. His complete American Thinker op-ed is here.

- JP

Lloyd Marcus: "Our Girls"

Featured on Lloyd Marcus' "American Tea Party: 12 great songs to Take Back America," "Our Girls" is Lloyd Marcus newest tribute to Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingram, Michelle Malkin and ALL our Great Conservative Women.

Here's a sample:



Click here to download from iTunes. 

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Right Wing Women Rock

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Why leftist harpies hate conservative women

Why do left-wing women hate their counterparts on the conservative side? A number of conservatives have endeavored to explain the phenomenon. Our fellow Texans at Lone Star Times are the latest to give it a shot, and we think they are right on target:

What is it about the female of the species on the port side of the ideological divide that allows them to be seized by fits of hysterical snarkiness and trivial banalities like post-pubescent 14 year old girls ? Maureen Dowd, Jane Hamsher, Ana Marie Cox, et al all seem to regress into a state of suspended eighth-grade angst when confronted by a Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman or now, it seems, Liz Cheney, the latest source of their paroxysms.

The LST piece quotes Ron Radosh, who opines that Liz Cheney's opposition to Obama's foreign policy is what has Mo Dowd's undies in an uproar. Next it references Noemie Emery, who says Liz Cheney is a pedigreed Palin -- a Super Sarah with beltway, rather than backwoods, roots. Finally, the article links to Jennifer Rubin, who believes that strong, successful, feminine, conservative women with loving alpha male husbands and gaggles of children so challenge the leftist stereotype of feminism that liberal women just can't deal with it and lash out those women on the right who have everything the leftist women don't: 

Liz Cheney has a husband and five children. So does Sarah Palin. So does [Michele Bachmann].

Hmmm.

And all three of these women manage successful public careers, are fearless in defending their opinions and find no obstacles in their chosen positions as leaders in the conservative movement.

Who would have thought it ?

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Quote of the Day (October 9, 2009)

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Adrienne Royer:

"Until Sarah Palin entered the picture last year, conservative women were disjointed... Regardless of how you feel about Palin, she was the lightening rod that spurred women to organize on the right."

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Conservative Women Rising: New Political Power

Conservative women, especially religious ones, have arrived. At National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters commented on their ascendancy in the Republican Party:

In all the commentary about the now former governor of Alaska, some of it comic, much of it trivial, a basic fact has been overlooked: Sarah Palin has come to represent a vital and vibrant constituency in the Republican Party -- religious women -- and they aren’t going [away] anytime soon.

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In 2008, the last Republican challenger to John McCain in his quest for the nomination was pastor-turned-politician Mike Huckabee. Huckabee’s campaign had little money and was organized through the homeschooling movement, a social network that turned out to be a workable substitute for the millions of dollars raised by Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. That network consists almost entirely of women. In Huckabee they saw one of their champions, but in Sarah Palin they see one of their own.

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No one knows what Palin’s intentions for 2012 are, perhaps not even the former governor herself. But if she chooses to run, I would not bet against her. The women who built the modern religious right are quite capable of building a nationwide campaign. The first social networking group to exert political influence is still networking and they don’t only exchange bread recipes anymore.

Scott Michaels at Entitlement Synrome celebrated seven strong, smart and fearless conservative women, including Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Marsha Blackburn, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham and Star Parker:

What all of these women have in common is a firm conviction that the essential tenets of Conservatism in the 21st century — as opposed to the mushy-headed kinds pushed by Kathleen Parker and others of her ilk — is what will best serve the nation in the years ahead. And all have been fearless in speaking out against the neo-socialism being pushed by Barack Obama and his supernumeraries in the Congress.

Actually, maybe Republicans need to put these women in charge for awhile, what do you think?

We think that's an outstanding idea, Scott. We don't know if the others are active sportswomen like the former governor of Alaska, but Sarah Palin may be able to use her hunting skills to help Republican men track down their long lost spines.

- JP