Patronizing Or Pandering

September 1, 2008 | Filed Under Dan Scott, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Media Bias, News, President, Publius Contributor, Society/Culture, Taxes |

-By Dan Scott

Since John McCain’s announcement of Sarah Palin as his choice for VP, we have been assaulted with a disgusting display of hypocrisy by the Democrats and their mouth pieces, the MSM. One would have hoped at the beginning of the Twenty First Century, the boorish sexism of the 40’s and 50’s would no longer be on display.

How many years of executive experience as governor or mayor is sufficient to qualify a person as ready to be president of the US? Two years, four years, eight years? It appears that neither Barack Obama, Joseph Biden or Hillary Clinton ever served as governor or mayor of any jurisdiction. Yet the Democrat Party was ready to consider a woman as President in Hillary Clinton who has arguably less experience than Sarah Palin in running a government bureaucracy. Hillary Clinton has zero foreign relations experience as well unless you want to count that faux sniper story landing in Bosnia or some such place. If anyone is going to claim Hillary has foreign policy and executive experience due to her being first lady, you should be laughed out of the room and worse, you open the door for her to accept equal blame for the Clinton Administration’s foreign policy disasters. It wasn’t because the world loved us that we were attacked around ten times or that they conceived, plotted, trained and financed the 911 attacks DURING the Clinton Administration. It certainly wasn’t respect the US earned either given Osama Bin Laden’s comments after Somalia.

When we look at the qualifications between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama we see that she clearly has more experience as US Senator and legislative accomplishments than him. However, having said this, the Democrat Party did not nominate Hillary Clinton, a woman, but Barack Obama, a man. It appears on the surface a pattern is developing, one of patronizing women by finding some excuse to say they are not ready or maybe the reality is the Democrat Party is not ready for a woman President.

Claiming Palin is not ready to be President is sheer hypocrisy on the Democrats part since clearly Obama is even LESS qualified than Palin. What this really says is the Democrat party has been patronizing to women for years with absolutely NO intent on treating them equals. Therefore the reason why Hillary Clinton did not get the Democrat nomination is strictly due to SEXISM. It’s time for the Democrat party to fish or cut bait, EITHER women are EQUAL to men or they are SECOND CLASS CITIZENS. Which is it? John McCain and the GOP BELIEVE that WOMEN are EQUAL and this was demonstrated by his choice. The fact that Palin thanked Ferraro as being the first woman ever to be nominated as VP shows she has class versus the MSM and Democrats who demonstrated they do not. Ferraro when interviewed by Sheppard Smith of FNC even said no Democrat ever (in over 20 years!) thanked her publicly as Palin did. What experience did Geraldine Ferraro have when she was the first woman nominated as VP? More or less than Palin? So was it pandering when John McCain nominated Sarah Palin as VP in 2008? Careful how you answer that and consider this? So was it pandering when Mondale nominated Ferraro in 1984 during the period of the Cold War?

Democrats have every right to disagree with Palin on the ISSUES, however you may NOT disqualify her service BECAUSE she is a WOMAN. The fact that the MSM (the mouth piece of the Democrat Party) has shamefully made her gender an issue by using the liberal code word of INEXPERIENCED speaks to their hypocrisy. You don’t like her stand on guns, fine, say so. You don’t like her stand on abortion, fine, say so. You don’t like her stand on Global Warming, fine, say so. BUT YOU MAY NOT DISQUALIFY HER BASED ON HER GENDER. I am calling out the Democrats and MSM on this ugly subtle form of sexist discrimination using liberal CODE WORDS like INEXPERIENCED. These ad homen attacks on Sarah Palin as a woman suggest something else as well, it suggests that Democrats also fear the conservative issues she represents and which the majority of the country holds.

While Obama and Biden put out a joint statement congratulating Mrs Palin for her selection as the Republican VP, this was only after the liberal code word of inexperience started flying around from their own campaign staff. It seems Obama has honed the art of the surrogate attack quite well. So once the classless behavior of denigrating Palin as a woman was reacted to and Obama’s political handlers thought better of the tactic, they decided it would be better politically if they had the MSM as their surrogates do it instead. Of course the MSM being the mouth pieces of the Democrat Party were dutiful in their spin by claiming John McCain, the very old white guy is ready to drop dead any day now (inferring age, another form of discrimination) would put Sarah Palin, mother of five children as president of the US. Could the MSM be any more patronizing and condescending to women? I don’t know about you, but I would put my trust in a person who walks the talk verus an empty suit like Obama who just talks.

So who is pandering and who is patronizing? Anyone who claims Govenor Sarah Palin is inexperienced is just plain SEXIST since Obama and Biden have zero executive experience running a bureaucracy and they have no noteworthy foreign policy experience as well. What’s Joseph Biden’s claim to foreign policy experience? The idiotic idea of partitioning Iraq. If the qualification for president is a simple matter of experience, then any Democrat who votes for the Obama/Biden ticket is a SEXIST!
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Dan Scott calls himself a “Member of the Global Capitalist Cabal preaching Capitalism and personal responsibility as the economic solution to world poverty.” He is also a member of the 14th Amendment Society — victimhood is a liberal code word for denying the civil rights of others. He is also a proud member of the Global Warming Denier Cabal, insisting that facts not agendas determine the truth.

Dan can be seen on the web at http://www.geocities.com/fightbigotry2002/ as well as http://www.geocities.com/dscott8186/saidwebpage.htm, And can be reached for comments at dscott8186@yahoo.com.

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