Liberals Direct Scare Tactics at Women

The Obama campaign, the National Organization for Women, and countless liberals in the media have had a hard time making any significant argument against Gov. Sarah Palin. So now they resort to calling John McCain's choice a "cynical" one - a play designed to attract women voters. Their response is all the same - women aren't stupid enough to vote for her just because she's a woman. What they mean is, women won't vote for her because she is pro-life, which sets the feminist movement back.

Women have had two different responses:

1) I'm not voting for her just because she is a woman - I am voting for her because I believe in what she has to say. I guess not all woman (even all "feminists") think abortion is the be-all, end-all of women's "rights."

2) Don't tell me what I'm too stupid to do - I'll vote for a woman if I want to. These women realize that it is far more important for the women's movement to have a women in the White House than to have a pro-choicer in the White House.

This second response is exemplified perfectly in an article by Tammy Bruce for The San Francisco Chronicle. She says: "For Democrats, she offers something even more compelling - a chance to vote for a someone who is her own woman, and who represents a party that, while we don't agree on all the issues, at least respects women enough to take them seriously."

There are a lot of women who were disgusted by Hillary Clinton's treatment during the Democratic primary campaign. And while the Party Unity Convention might have brought most of them back into the fold, they must resist the liberal line of being to stupid to voting for Gov. Palin just because she is a woman.

I don't think John McCain chose Palin just because she is a woman. But that doesn't mean other women won't chose her for that very reason. And why shouldn't they? Obama gets about 90% of the African-American vote and no one claims that African-Americans are only voting for him based on his father's heritage.

Women today see a chance to change history and many of them are seizing on it. And I don't think a single one of them is stupid.