If Sarah Palin has learned anything from her less-than-a-week in the international spotlight, she's learned what it's like to be black.
Think about it.
She's the first woman to be the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. One would think this would be the 18 millionth and one crack in the glass ceiling. Sarah Palin has a reasonable chance of becoming President of the United States within her first term in office. Her selection should have been celebrated from sea to shining sea.
But the coordinated attack on Palin and her family proves once again that the Democrat Party is the anti-thesis of everything they claim to champion. They ARE anti-woman and anti-minority, that is unless that celebrated woman and minority are Democrats.
When Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice became the first two black Secretaries of State, the highest-ever political appointments of blacks in American history, it was not celebrated. Instead the "Party of Civil Rights" (another false myth) launched condoned racist attacks on the "
showcase appointments", not their documented qualifications.
The mainstream media, academia, and liberal blogs had a field day (as they always have) resurrecting every racial taboo imaginable, and did so with impunity. They justified it with Powell and Rice's not being "the right kind of black". Like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, Janice Rogers Brown, and Ken Blackwell, when it came to destroying the reputation of people outside the group Democrats "own", nothing was off the table.
Now, enter Sarah Palin. She's accomplished everything the liberal feminists said a woman could. She's raised a family while moving up the old boy's ladder. She became the chief executive in her state, yet once those achievements were recognized, it became necessary for the Democrat Party to tear this woman down precisely because they couldn't take credit for that milestone.
And it's not like they didn't have a chance. Like her or not, Hillary Clinton could've been that milestone during a year of milestones.
Barack Obama became the first black to be receive his party's nomination for president. Hillary Clinton received more of the popular vote along the way. Granted, Hillary does come with a lot of old baggage, but it's nothing the media hasn't dealt with before, and once the ultimate lines were drawn, she would have been embraced.
But the party of gender equality went the other way. They played party insider politics with the delegates, making rules and breaking them and making them again, just to pressure those delegates into a fixed result on the convention floor that brought that glass ceiling crashing down on the woman, again.
Even while being led by a black presidential nominee, the Democrat Party fell back on the old white guy (Joe Biden) for his running mate. They had the chance to make history. They had the chance to issue a double whammy on the history books for all time. A black man and woman on a presidential ticket, and they balked when it came time to seal the deal. So how do they make up with the 18 million who voted for and still support that woman?
The set out on a search-and-destroy mission against the other woman in the mix.
EVERY rule Democrats made and held us all to have been broken. Respect and sensitivity to minorities, gone. Now, they're going all out on the woman.
We, the simpleton citizens in the mix, were instructed by every liberal establishment to respect women. We were told that women could do anything a man could do, and would be wholeheartedly encouraged to do so. We were also told what we couldn't do.
We were told it was bad to assume that a woman couldn't raise a family and be public servants at the same time. We were told that family members were not to be subject to adult, political attacks. While the privacy of Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton are the most recent examples, we were instructed to ease up off the kids even after Chelsea recently became a bonafide political agent for her mother's presidential campaign. I guess that was a makeup for the Bush twins who were relentlessly savaged for eight years.
The upside to this is that many Democrat women are on to this egregious double standard. While Sarah Palin is a Republican, many liberal women do consider the rules still in effect. The sexist attacks on Palin, along with the attacks on her pregnant teen daughter are just the latest tact used by the Democrat establishment, and it is being noticed. Democrat women aren't going to change their party affiliation because of party actions, but show me a woman that doesn't keep insults parked away in her mind for future reference.
The Democrats have talked a good game for decades, but as barriers and ceilings are broken, they will only recognize the ones they can take ownership of. If it means the high-tech lynching of blacks or the political rape of women, so be it. Democrats traditionally own those of use to them, and hunt down those who pose a threat.
So I don't want to hear any more shock and awe from liberal women who wonder how this could be happening. It was okay when it was happening to Condoleeza Rice, so you'd better be ready for what Democrats have in store for Sarah Palin. They blew you off despite the Hillary vote, and they'll blow you off while they attack a 17-year-old girl and a Down Syndrome baby. You were repeatedly told Republicans were the party of intolerance and hate.
If that's the case, the Democrat Party is that of anti-achievement. The road they are taking is a rocky one, and they never let women drive.
