Op-ed: Palin, Fiorina and other "good women of this kind might do a world of good"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

If mama ain't happy, she may run for office

Published: Monday, June 14, 2010

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By Kathryn Lopez, columnist

Women can be completely irrational. They can be overemotional. They can be downright wrong.

Women can also be right. A woman can be a leader. She can notice things a man might not.

We see the world differently than men because we are different and complementary. But we also see the world different from one another, woman to woman.

This is the breakthrough we're seeing in American history right now: It's becoming next to impossible to successfully deny these realities. From Sarah Palin to Meg Whitman to the even Democrat Blanche Lincoln. In the wake of a series of primary elections this June, there is much talk that we are in another year of the political woman. And this time she is frequently more Right than Left.

In truth, this is neither shocking nor new. The celebrated model of the female politician may have been liberal Democrat Barbara Boxer, fighting against the rights of the most vulnerable among us, the unborn. But she was never every woman. Another type of woman, in fact, fought for a woman's right to vote, whether women who voted subsequently realized it or not. They brought a maternal instinct to their activism.

And so when you meet a Palin or a Carly Fiorina or whoever the next woman the media frenzies about as an exotic species, you're not meeting someone who appeared yesterday. When you look at some of the issues we're debating today about preserving who we are and protecting those innocents and the way we were, we're in exactly the place as a nation where a few good women of this kind might do a world of good alongside a few good men.

They'll still try, on the Left, to pretend a woman who doesn't buy the party line of the professional feminist sisterhood is somehow an oddity or, even, a betrayer of women. But the truth is that she may simply represent a commonsense backlash. The feminist movement tried to deny so much what women uniquely can bring to the cultural and political table.

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[ananda]

1. In what universe would that be?

???

[izquierdista]

2. Bizarro world

[n2doc]

3. Only if they finally ridded this world of the pest called Humankind

Sorry, feeling particularly angry at the spill...


On the "op ed" - If Palin and Fiorina had any, and I mean ANY, redeeming qualities I might agree, in part. The fact that this writer seems to think that being a woman is the only thing that matters makes them the sexist pig.

[avaistheone1]

4. Now I get it. This article was written by the National Review.

No wonder they worship the irrational and incompetent Palin and Fiorina.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. The author:

http://townhall.com/columnists/KathrynLopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online, writes a weekly column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association. An award-winning journalist and editor who has been praised for "editorial daring," Kathryn Jean Lopez has covered issues as diverse as the left-wing takeover of the Girl Scouts to the war on terror. Kathryn Jean Lopez writes frequently on bioethics, religion, feminism, education, and congressional politics, among other topics.

As editor of National Review Online, Kathryn Jean Lopez oversees the web magazine's editorial content and operations. Kathryn Jean Lopez can be read around-the-clock at NRO's weblog, "The Corner," where Kathryn Jean Lopez is known as "K-Lo." Kathryn Jean Lopez also writes for National Review, the print magazine founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. Kathryn Jean Lopez has interviewed scores of policymakers and cultural figures, including Donald Rumsfeld, Mel Gibson and Alan Dershowitz. Kathryn Jean Lopez's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Washington Times, among many other publications internationally.

Kathryn Jean Lopez and National Review Online were awarded the Center for Military Readiness Spotlight Award for national-defense coverage. In 2003, Kathryn Jean Lopez was named a "Remarkable Pro-Life Woman" by Feminists for Life. NRO won first place in five out of ten categories in the Washington Post 2004 Best Blogs Readers' Choice Awards. Kathryn Jean Lopez is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and C-SPAN.

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a weekly guest on the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show" and a regular commentator and correspondent for Vatican Radio. Kathryn Jean Lopez graduated from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she studied politics and philosophy. Kathryn Jean Lopez lives in New York.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Well, that clears things up a bit.

Thanks!

[Jefferson23]

15. She covered issues as " diverse as the left-wing takeover of the Girl Scouts"

ROFL, when did we do that??

[old mark]

5. Well, I always liked Nancy Pelosi.....nt

[verges]

6. What complete nonsense. nt

[southernyankeebelle]

9. They can say want they want but the women of the left have been the ones

to make roads for these ho bags to get where they are today. These women have gotten ahead because of their looks. You hear Palin.

[KingFlorez]

10. They just reinforce old stereotypes

They act like the right-wing thinks women in politics should act.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Yeah, Fiorina did so well at Dell

she was as successful at running that company as Bush was his. Just what we need.

[Tutankhamun]

12. Sarah Palin = Good. Hillary Clinton = Bad.

It's horse shit like this article that keeps so many Americans so ignorant and stupid. Of course, the really damaging horse shit is on TV and the radio (conservatives don't usually read). No wonder the bio says she's a regular on Hugh Hewitt.

[Crowman1979]

13. Women who are RW nutjobs are a textbook example of the feminist movement heading backwards.

They are the Uncle Toms of women's rights.

[marmar]

14. I could barely get through that and keep my food down.....

:puke:

[Skittles]

16. "Women can be completely irrational. They can be overemotional. They can be downright wrong."

then she goes on to prove it