Smart Is Beautiful

Sarah Palin is more likable because she’s savvy to what it takes to be a good TV personality since she cut her teeth as a beauty contestant and sports anchor, two endeavors whose sole purpose is to be likable. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, cut her teeth on building her legal career. It wasn’t until she was put into the spotlight through Bill’s political choices that she had to learn to pander to the masses.   

Second, Sarah Palin is where she is in the world through her own efforts.  Hillary Clinton is where she is because she is married to Bill Clinton.

Hillary Clinton’s resume is absolutely stellar and had she not married Bill, she may very well have become a member of the senate on her own. I’m afriad her stint as first lady has hurt her more than it helped because we’re at a point in this country where we’re not sure what that role should mean. It evolved over the 8 years she had it.  

But unfortunately, whether it’s true or not (which we can never really know for sure), she will always be seen as hanging onto Bill’s coat tails since he was the one who was the right gender at the right time to become president.    

Third, Hillary Clinton is an angry, vengeful person who cannot be trusted with power because she will use it to settle old scores with people she perceives as having done her wrong.  Whatever else you might say about Sarah Palin, there is not even a hint of her engaging in dirty tricks style behavior against her political opponents.

I’m not sure on this point because I don’t know enough about it. But I’m sure that you’ll agree that she had enough power with Bill to have settled scores had she wanted to back when he was in office. In addition, that there’s no way we can know for sure what someone will do with power once they have it. And to be honest, what politician doesn’t use their power in some way to settle a score or further their favorites?  

It is important to be able to see through someone else’s eyes.  Barack Obama won the Democratic party’s presidential nomination because the country is tired of the Clintons and the Bushes and does not want to live through another circus of improrieties the way we did in the 1990’s.  Hillary Clinton may excite true believers but she alienates everyone else and cannot win a majority of the votes in a presidential general election.  Feminists make a huge mistake by hanging their star on this very flawed individual.

I completely agree that she would have a very hard time winning the general election as the presidential candidate, which is why I hoped she be the vice-presidential candidate. But that may have hurt the democrats as well since two underdog outsiders might be hard for some people to handle. It’s almost as if it’s a prerequisite that there be an old white man to “anchor” to if there’s to be a newcomer on the ticket.  

Also, it’s a sad truth but feminists hang their stars on Hillary because she’s the only candidate we have who might have been able to pull it off….name recognition, experience, etc. Feminists are a dying breed and I worry what this means for our society long term.

Will anti-feminists like Sarah Palin, who obviously measures a great deal of her self-worth in being a wife and mother, be successful in her quest to take away a woman’s right to control her own life and body by making abortion in the case of victimized sex illegal? Will the republican’s need for strictly defined family values create a place where households without two parents are seen as sub-par? Will it continue to be easy for a disgruntled student like the one at VA Tech to get the weapons he wants in order to take his rage out against innocent people? And will (my best friend’s daughter) have to pray a traditional Christian prayer in school, even though she’s Jewish, simply because Christianity was the religion of the founding fathers?  

These are the reasons I vote the party, whether it’s Obama, Hillary or Bubbles the Chimp on the ticket. Regardless of tax increases, big government, trickle-down economics or even the war in Iraq, these are the issues that affect people where they live. And I try to point out the anti-feminist ideals of people like Sarah Palin so that those in my circle of friends will see beyond her likability to her underlying political agenda.