Sarah Palin Resignation
Jul. 7th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashleyfanficI'm a Sarah Palin fan. If you don't like her, that's your business, but I do. I think she's classy and managed to keep a cool head even with some of the horrible things being said about her.
I'm torn about whether her resignation as Governor was a good thing. I mean, she still had one of the highest approval ratings of any governor anywhere. She is loved by the Alaskan people. However, the same ole politics as usual was being played. Every time she turned around she was being slapped with an ethics violation over nothing! Not to mention the people on sites like the dailykoz and huffington post making fun of her baby that has down's syndrom. Are you freaking kidding me? it's one thing to go after her because she's a political figure. But that baby has done nothing to deserve being called names and people hoping that it would die! She made a really tough choice, knowing that her baby would be born with Down's Syndrom and had him anyway. For those reasons I can understand resigning.
On the other hand...
If she's planning to run for President, she'll have to contend with the fact that she couldn't take the heat. I mean, if you can't take the media hounding you and your family as a GOVERNOR how can you handle the world doing it as President? And let's face facts, it would be worse, more vicious, should she run for the highest office.
I think my biggest issue is that women are so against her. Is it because she stands against certain things that other women support? If someone spoke about Hilary Clinton the way people speak about Sarah Palin there would be an outrage. People would riot in the streets for someone to say that Hilary looked like a prostitute or something like that. So, why is it acceptable that they do it to Palin. This feeds into my theory that women are threatened, not by men, but by other women. I mean, Palin is hated because she dared to stand up for her belief in the right to life. But it was her body and her choice. If you support the right to chose, she made her choice. Why is she ridiculed for it?
I hate the double standard. I think as long as the person is affiliated with the same political party then they are supportive of them and all they do and should they be on the other side, there is no solidarity. Why? Why weren't women's groups outraged by what David Letterman said? They would have been had it been Chelsea and Hilary Clinton and not Sarah and Willow Palin. What is the difference? They're both mother and daughter, they're both political figures, and they both do what they think is best for their country. So, other than political associations, what's the difference? I'm truly curious.
But I think it's terrible that we, as women, are so quick to turn on our own. If you're a feminist, then shouldn't you support all women, not just the ones who have the same political affiliations? I mean, a women is a women, not matter her beliefs. The things that make her a woman are not her beliefs or political views. She's still a daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother. If I heard someone say something like that about Hilary I would be offended. I mean, she's extremely to the left of what I believe, but she deserves respect. She's a woman who made it extremely far in her life. Because of that, she should be shown respect. So has Sarah Palin. So, why is it that they are both held at such different levels.
I'm torn about whether her resignation as Governor was a good thing. I mean, she still had one of the highest approval ratings of any governor anywhere. She is loved by the Alaskan people. However, the same ole politics as usual was being played. Every time she turned around she was being slapped with an ethics violation over nothing! Not to mention the people on sites like the dailykoz and huffington post making fun of her baby that has down's syndrom. Are you freaking kidding me? it's one thing to go after her because she's a political figure. But that baby has done nothing to deserve being called names and people hoping that it would die! She made a really tough choice, knowing that her baby would be born with Down's Syndrom and had him anyway. For those reasons I can understand resigning.
On the other hand...
If she's planning to run for President, she'll have to contend with the fact that she couldn't take the heat. I mean, if you can't take the media hounding you and your family as a GOVERNOR how can you handle the world doing it as President? And let's face facts, it would be worse, more vicious, should she run for the highest office.
I think my biggest issue is that women are so against her. Is it because she stands against certain things that other women support? If someone spoke about Hilary Clinton the way people speak about Sarah Palin there would be an outrage. People would riot in the streets for someone to say that Hilary looked like a prostitute or something like that. So, why is it acceptable that they do it to Palin. This feeds into my theory that women are threatened, not by men, but by other women. I mean, Palin is hated because she dared to stand up for her belief in the right to life. But it was her body and her choice. If you support the right to chose, she made her choice. Why is she ridiculed for it?
I hate the double standard. I think as long as the person is affiliated with the same political party then they are supportive of them and all they do and should they be on the other side, there is no solidarity. Why? Why weren't women's groups outraged by what David Letterman said? They would have been had it been Chelsea and Hilary Clinton and not Sarah and Willow Palin. What is the difference? They're both mother and daughter, they're both political figures, and they both do what they think is best for their country. So, other than political associations, what's the difference? I'm truly curious.
But I think it's terrible that we, as women, are so quick to turn on our own. If you're a feminist, then shouldn't you support all women, not just the ones who have the same political affiliations? I mean, a women is a women, not matter her beliefs. The things that make her a woman are not her beliefs or political views. She's still a daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother. If I heard someone say something like that about Hilary I would be offended. I mean, she's extremely to the left of what I believe, but she deserves respect. She's a woman who made it extremely far in her life. Because of that, she should be shown respect. So has Sarah Palin. So, why is it that they are both held at such different levels.