A vagina does not make you a feminist. Selecting a woman as your running mate doesn't make you a feminist.
You can't fool me, John McCain. I was a Hillary Clinton supporter and this little shenanigan isn't going to cut it. I DON'T VOTE FOR ANTI-CHOICE POLITICIANS. Barack Obama is the best candidate on women's issues, family issues, education, the war, the economy and John McCain doesn't deserve my vote. He doesn't deserve your vote, dear voters. I was a Hillary Clinton supporter and I cried when she suspended her campaign. But this isn't about one woman. It's about all women.
No self-respecting supporter of Hillary Clinton can justify voting for the McCain-Palin ticket. If you supported Hillary Clinton because of her experience, her values, and her record on the issues, you simply CAN NOT vote for John McCain. He is the opposite of everything Hillary Clinton stands for. It would be sheer lunacy. It would be moronic. It's not about one woman. It's about all women.
AND THIS from Palin's introductory speech as VP candidate: "It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out the women of America aren't finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all."
You can't fool me, Sarah Palin. You are no Hillary Clinton. You are an anti-choice, anti-gay, conservative pretty face for the "old boys club" you spoke so disparagingly about. You have no experience in international policy experience. You've been in office as governor for what? Two years? Before that you were mayor of a town with like 9,000 people and on the local PTA. YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO BE NEXT IN LINE TO THE PRESIDENCY. You lack Hillary's experience and you hold virtually opposing views to Hillary. You and John McCain represent a giant glass blower, re-sealing all of Hillary's 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling. The McCain-Palin ticket is a giant step backwards for women. We don't need just ONE women in ONE office. We need equal rights, equal pay, control of own reproductive systems, access to birth control, access to safe & legal abortion, access to financial and medical support for us, our families, our children.
A vagina doesn't make you any less conservative. Selecting a woman as your running mate doesn't make you any less of a conservative. Selecting a woman as your running mate doesn't make you good for women. I don't need you, Sarah Palin. I'd rather have two men (OBAMA - BIDEN) in the white house and a better reality for all American women than see one woman take office and screw the rest of us out of our rights. It's about one woman's victory, it's about all of us.
"A woman voting for John McCain would be like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."
-Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Action Fund
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Well said.
Sorry if I don't blindly follow you into the voter booth.
Your apparent anger, and irrational thinking does more to divide females than any appointment by a conservative.