Oops, they just woke the sleeping silent majority

[Playinghardball]

I wonder if they truly understand that women of a certain younger age, who have gratefully taken for granted the freedoms so hard won by our foremothers, have just now awakened to the true nature of the war against women.

Below the fleur de kos I will introduce myself and my position.

I've always called myself socially liberal and fiscally conservative. (Secret: I'm a registered Republican, but voted for Obama.) I will no longer vote for any Republican for any position at any time. I've become a straight ticket Democrat. Republicans have gone 20 steps too far toward crazy. And my husband is in the same position. A position we just call...sanity.

We are what most would consider financially comfortable. Some might consider rich. We don't feel rich. We live within (below) our means. We pay A LOT more than 13.9% in taxes. And we're generally okay with that because we don't build roads or bridges on our own. We think the government should do that. And we expect to pay for it. Honestly, we feel a little like we pay more than our fair share ... But, we still get to live okay, so, rules are rules.

We generally in principle supported Occupy but didn't speak up.

We generally in principle support "Obamacare" but didn't speak up.

We generally in principle are concerned about eroding free speech and an increasing police state but didn't speak up.

But now, we think we have to start speaking up for women. Is it too late?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/20/1122361/-Oops-they-just-woke-the-sleeping-silent-majority

[AnotherMcIntosh]

1. All or most Republican women secretly rational and humane? How many have been enablers,

and remain enablers of the Republican candidates and their nutty positions?

Although Rmoney, Ryan, Akin, and others say nutty things, somehow I think that they have the support of not just male Republicans but female Republicans as well. All of those candidates had mothers who preferred men with the I've-got-mine philosophy. All of the Republican candidates, or many of them, have or had wives who likewise were enablers.

I wouldn't be too quick to believe that most Republican women are a "sleeping silent majority." They are sleeping alright, but they are sleeping with Republicans.

[Hydra]

8. I think the sleeping and silent majority were the people lulled by the "One America" thing

I'm glad Akin screwed up and told us what he and his colleagues and voting block thinks.

Compromise with the monstrous?

[Smilo]

2. There will always be republican women

because it makes their men happy and when their men are happy they give freely to their "women".

[JDPriestly]

3. American women are the strength of the nation.

My grandmother got up in the morning to feed the chickens and help with the milking. She baked bread on Mondays, washed in an old-fashioned washtub on Tuesdays and, after filling each day of the week with chores, cooked for a table full of hungry hired hands.

That was her life -- nearly all her life.

And until she was a mature mother of three, she was not permitted to vote.

Today, American women are the stars of the world, winning Olympic gold medals, leading among scientists, business executives, outstanding in law and medicine, education and enlightened, non-violent motherhood.

We and the generations of American women who preceded us are proud of who we are and what we accomplish. We are happy to be partners with men and other women who are themselves strong and hardworking.

The Republicans are fools if they think they can talk down to us or dismiss our right to live without being the victims of violence.

[cr8tvlde]

4. I remember driving down a long, red-dirt lane going to visit my grandmother

and there she was, out in the field, with a wooden plow and the old horse getting ready for the planting...doing what she'd done for decades. She outlived 4 husbands, was almost blind, and had reduced her living area in her country victorian house to two rooms. She was a Real Sooner ... the kind that came from Germany in the 19th century. We tried to get her to live elsewhere, with a daughter or my Dad the last son, but no way. At 96 she died not of old age, but because of a rabid skunk that somehow got in and she didn't see it.

My other grandmother taught jr. high school until she was 75 or 78 forget which, yet lived on to 98.

Bravo to the New Women and those of us Boomers inbetween. We think. We vote. We influence. We're sisters.

Tealiban, Beware.

[DonRedwood]

5. In the West the states are all blue

And I think it is because of the pioneer women and the Native American women. Pragmatic, careful to nurture the near and far future. My mom's mom's mom's mom came across on the wagons. She outlived all but 1 of her 13 kids (99) but she was the example to our family what a woman was. (an ass-kicker).

I personally would hand over the reigns of govt. to women in a heartbeat.

[cr8tvlde]

6. Thanks for your information...women of the 19th Century had to be ass-kickers

one way or the other.

(BTW, the great State of Oklahoma is a hopelessly Red Political State, but also has dirt in about half the state that is as red as brick.)

[JDPriestly]

7. Thanks. What a beautiful story.

Why are American women so strong? Because we had mothers and grandmothers like yours and mine.

[RainDog]

9. k&r n/t