Women’s group rails against Palin
Maybe it’s no surprise to you, but the National Organization for Women (NOW) has come out strongly against Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. For a more balanced look at the presidential candidates’ views on issues that NOW sees as being of particular concern to women, check here. In the meantime, below is a sample of statements that I received via email regarding their views of Palin:
“Friends, we are writing to you because of the fury and dread we have felt since the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice-Presidential candidate for the Republican Party. We believe that this terrible decision has surpassed mere partisanship, and that it is a dangerous farce on the part of a pandering and rudderless Presidential candidate that has a real possibility of becoming fact.
“Perhaps like us, as American women, you share the fear of what Ms. Palin and her professed beliefs and proven record could lead to for ourselves and for our present or future daughters. To date, she is against sex education, birth control, the pro-choice platform, environmental protection, alternative energy development, freedom of speech, gun control, the separation of church and state, and polar bears. To say nothing of her complete lack of real preparation to become the second- (and possibly first) -most-powerful person on the planet.
“We want to clarify that we are not against Sarah Palin as a woman, a mother, or, for that matter, a parent of a pregnant teenager, but solely as a rash, incompetent, and altogether devastating choice for Vice President. Ms. Palin’s political views are in every way a slap in the face to the accomplishments that our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers so fiercely fought for, and from which we’ve so demonstrably benefited.
“First and foremost, Ms. Palin does not represent us. She does not demonstrate or uphold our interests as American women…”
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