As a Public Service to Republican Women across the country. . . .
Watching the recent events of the last two weeks I found myself returning to the memory of attending the 1972 Spokane County Republican Convention where at 18 I had a momentary role as head of a delegation of supporters for the incumbent progressive incumbent Governor Dan Evans (in Washington State in those years there was a progressive Rockfeller faction that was more liberal than the hawkish Scoop Jackson dominated Democratic Party).
Before a rump delegation unseated us and physically threw us out I had the distinct honor of being the only person to remain seated as several thousand rabid red faced communist hating true believers spent 30 minutes standing and alternatively yelling their devotion to the speaker Phyllis Schlafly and yelling their hatred for the 18 year old communist seated in their midst.
Schlafly had built up a rigorous career and business touring full time telling right wing crowds that "Happiness resulted from being a wife and mother and working with her husband to reach their goals".
In the last remaing minutes of my membership in the Republican Party I was struck that there was apparently some inherent congenital condition that made it impossible for Republicans to see the irony of a woman who was making thousands a dollar a day criss crossing the country telling Republicans that there women should go home from the meeting and find their happiness at home cooking and serving their husbands.
So it appears that the Republican Party has gone retro in its state of consciousness like some weird time machine propelling past Betty Ford and returned to the stasis of Pat Nixon who was never known to have any independent thoughts of her own at any time.
So until you have come out of your soporose state of semi consciousness and return to a point where you feel that you can make such important decisions as what kind of birth control you wish to use we would like to announce a public service that you can use at DU.
Until you have regained your senses and told your husbands to leave decisions between women and their doctor alone and regained the ability to make autonomous conscious decisions we can advise you that . . .
As a public service if you feel flumoxed by complex personal decisions like what hair style best suits your face or what you should prepare for dinner or what you should wear when you greet your husband when he returns home for dinner (assuming that you get home from your back breaking work before he does), . . As a public service feel free to send a personal DUmail to any DUer who will confidentially counsel you that you are in fact are a competent sentient being capable of making personal decisions for yourself and that after just a few minutes of interaction you will be restored to a conscious state of being able to decide for yourself what birth control option best fits your body and that you can tell your husband and other male members of the Republican Party to shut the fuck up.
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I wasn't very political in those days, single parent and all that, but I voted for Dan Evans. He'd never make it in the Republican party today.
