McCain the Sexist?

So says Kate Sheppard over at In These Times, by reason of McCain’s pro-life stance - calling a it “war on women”:

McCain’s campaign has been making a clear play for women voters in recent weeks, hosting conference calls with Republican women and touting that his policies on national security, the economy and healthcare appeal to women voters.

But the suggestion that women — and feminist women, at that — will be lining up behind him is a fairytale. At least, it should be. McCain’s record and policies on issues of importance to women are neither moderate nor maverick.

In The Nation, Katha Pollitt put it simply: “[T]o vote for McCain, a feminist would have to be insane.”…

…the number of progressive or even moderate voters who would seriously consider voting for McCain is much smaller than the media would have you believe. Unfortunately, McCain’s propaganda seems to be working, at least on those who aren’t aware of his record on issues of concern to women voters.

A February Planned Parenthood poll of 1,205 women voters in 16 battleground states found that 50 percent of women voters don’t know McCain’s position on abortion, and that 49 percent of women who backed McCain were pro-choice. Forty-six percent of women supporting McCain said they’d like to see Roe v. Wade upheld — though McCain says he supports overturning the decision. When they learned of his position on Roe, 36 percent of women who identified as both pro-choice and likely McCain voters said they would be less likely to vote for him.

These moderate, often suburban, middle-class women could be critical swing voters this election. At the time of the Planned Parenthood poll, Obama held only a 5 percentage-point margin over McCain with its swing-state demographic, 41 percent to 36 percent.

Planned Parenthood concludes that these findings suggest “that just filling in McCain’s actual voting record and his publicly stated positions on a handful of key issues has the potential to diminish his total vote share among battleground women voters by about 17 to 20 percentage points.”

All of that predicated on a theory that women are so in love with abortion that the mere fact of McCain’s opposition will doom him - such theory being a standard on the left every election cycle with the only flaw being that it never comes out that way. We GOPers are always warned that our pro-life stance will destroy us at the polls and yet we manage to win from time to time (like 7 out of the last 10 times - and the times we lost it wasn’t because we’re pro-life). Be that as it may, does McCain’s pro-life view make him a sexist at war with women?

If you’re a leftist, it does - because for the left, abortion has become a sacrament in the Church of Secularism. As a Catholic views Annointing of the Sick (”last rites” for you non-Catholics out there), so the leftist views abortion - a thing not done all the time, but vital to the overall health of the organism. To be opposed to abortion on the left is akin to being opposed to forgiveness of sins in Christianity - it just isn’t done. So entrenched is this view that even someone as kooky as Kucinich was forced to drop a lifetime of pro-life views when he made his quixotic run for the White House. Calling McCain a “sexist” is just liberal-speak for saying “he disagrees with us on abortion”.

And thus the real battle is joined - in the end, Iraq, Afghanistan, oil prices, inflation and the rest are all secondary: the dividing line in America is over the issue of Life. The Culture of Life battles the Culture of Death, and eventually America will become all one thing or all the other. That is, all Life or all Death.

The particular issue, abortion, won’t be on the ballot - but the mindset which allows abortion and the mindset which seeks its end will be, and in this year of 2008 the stakes are very crucial as the judges who will either overturn or uphold Roe for another generation are likely to be appointed by the next President. It will be one battle in a long war, but for those of us who fight for Life, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Tags: abortion, culture of death, Culture of Life, Feminism, John McCain, Planned Parenthood

17 comments July 23rd, 2008

Some Pro-Abortion Fanatics Upset Over NARAL Endorsement of Obama

Really can’t see why - either of HillBama will work for the maximum number of abortions, as NARAL desires:

With the clock running down on a long-fought primary, NARAL Pro-Choice America leaders sent state affiliates reeling this week by endorsing Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It was seen as a gratuitous slap in the face to a longtime ally, and it sparked a fear even closer to home: that the move will alienate donors loyal to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

Many on this week’s conference call were stunned on learning the news, making urgent pleas for the group to remain neutral until after the June 3 Democratic primaries.

“It’s created a firestorm,” said NARAL Pro-Choice New York President Kelli Conlin, who was on the conference call. “Everyone was mystified … saying, ‘What is the upside for the organization? And, frankly, [there was] a lot of concern about the donor base. … There was real concern there would be a backlash.”
There was a backlash, and it was swift, starting with NARAL’s own website. At last count, there were more than 3,300 comments in an electronic chat about the endorsement, the overwhelming majority of them negative. “Shame shame shame!” read one, with many correspondents threatening never to support NARAL financially again. “No more donations from me!!!” wrote another.

In Washington, two dozen women members of Congress who support Clinton held a quickly organized press conference to tout her abortion-rights record Wednesday night. Ellen Malcolm, founder of the abortion-rights women’s fundraising group EMILY’s List, sharply rebuked NARAL for its endorsement. Two former members of Congress (and Clinton supporters) — Geraldine Ferraro and Pat Schroeder — jabbed at NARAL for endorsing before the general election. “Looks like some higher ups at NARAL are trying to get jobs in the new administration … nothing else makes sense to us,” they wrote in a joint letter.

I don’t think its anything like that - its just clear that no matter what Hillary does, the Democratic powers-that-be have determined that Obama will be the nominee, in order to ensure that down-ballot Democrats don’t have any difficulties going into the fall. NARAL just saw the writing on the wall and got in line with the rest of the liberal leadership. I guess no one reckoned on the wrath of a feminist scorned.

Meanwhile, Operation Chaos is continuing to show why it was worthwhile doing…

Tags: abortion, Feminism, HillBama, NARAL

May 20th, 2008

Political Correctness MUST Come to an End

Just too many cases like this one:

Authorities in Florida say a man awaiting trial for murder beat and raped a female corrections officer in a jail library.

Sheriff John Rutherford says a 26-year-old inmate used a makeshift knife Thursday morning to overpower the officer in the Duval County jail library in Jacksonville.

He says the officer was beaten but not stabbed. She was taken to a hospital, but her condition was not released.

Rutherford says the inmate was taken into custody without resistance.

The man is awaiting trial on charges including murder, arson and armed robbery.

Guarding men awaiting trial for murder is not a task for women - unless you can find an extraordinarily strong woman. As far as most women go, however, most men can overpower them. But, we have women guarding such, because someone along the line decided that men and women are not just equal in rights, but the same in all respects…and so, crazed inmates are left in the care of guards who cannot really guard them.

Women should guard women, men should guard men - and there should never, ever be a circumstance where one guard is alone with an unshackled prisoner. This is just common sense - and I’ll bet just about any amount that nothing will be done…women will continue to guard men they can’t overpower, and from time to time these guards will pay heavily for our adherence to a stupid view of the sexes.

Tags: Feminism

24 comments April 21st, 2008