Gloria Steinem says, “you must be kidding”

So much for all that female hope change, nonsense with the Republicans!

It seems that Gloria Steinem is not buying it.

It was an assumption on the part of John McCain, that adding Sarah Palin to the ticket would bring a flock of women voters to his herd. Well, apparently Gloria Steinem didn’t get the memo, Heck, she did not even come to the office meeting!

Gloria Steinem writes:

Here’s the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing — the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party — are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women — and to many men too — who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the “white-male-only” sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won’t work. This isn’t the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.

Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton’s candidacy stood for — and that Barack Obama’s still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, “Somebody stole my shoes, so I’ll amputate my legs.”

Ouch! So much for all that female unity amongst in the political spectrum! Truthfully, I don’t know how John McCain thought that he could fool the feminists into voting for Sarah Palin, if that in fact was what he wanted to do. It could very well be in fact that John McCain was simply wanting to throw some red meat to his base to garner support for his candidacy. The move was a maverick one, however I don’t believe that any self respecting feminist will vote for Sarah Palin. It just would not make any sense, because feminism and conservatism are, quite frankly, polar opposites.

Of coarse conservatives will interpret this as some sort of attack against Sarah Palin herself, when in fact Gloria Steinem stated that that was nothing personal against her it was just a simple difference in ideologies. It should be very interesting to watch this one play out in the media.

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