According to a fellow student, Sarah Palin has opened doors for other women...

[cynatnite]

:wtf:

It was introduction speech day in class today. One student did her speech on Sarah Palin. My head nearly fell off my shoulders when she declared that Sarah Palin opened doors for other women.

Trying to think of how she opened doors for other women, but my brain is incapable of doing 180 degrees like that.

[Orrex]

1. Well, when Palin's in the room, it's impossible to be the dumbest person there

So I guess that's a way of opening doors.

Or something...

[Drale]

9. Untrue if

your Christine O'Donnell.

[cynatnite]

11. ...

:rofl:

[GoneOffShore]

23. Or Michelle Bachmann

[Orrex]

36. Zing!

Well played!

[FSogol]

2. Maybe she opened doors for Shailey Tripp?

:shrug:

Did everyone laugh? Did she give any examples?

[cynatnite]

3. The lack of examples was obvious...

If anyone was tempted to laugh, they had the good grace not to. I'm in the South...so there ya' go. :)

[DCBob]

4. She also opened the doors for complete morons.

congrats Sarah.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. In a way she has

in the Republican Party.

Realize until last year... no Republican Candidate would use a woman as a VEEP. So in a way she is right.

Granted, this was because Geraldine Ferraro led the way (if this kid is young Geraldine who?) and Hillary Clinton was a VERY SERIOUS contender... both were Democrats. So if you look at it this way, she has.

Granted, I'd make the argument that Grandpa McCain was not serious about the presidency when he chose Sarah, since he did chose St. Sarah for reasons that are not precisely experience et al. There were FAR BETTER and more experienced candidates (see Hutchinson) but she was chosen for her pretty face and ahem... relative youth.

Ask this student though if she even knows who Geraldine Ferraro is... I am willing to bet she will not.

[cynatnite]

10. Good points...

She did mention that Palin was the first woman Repub VEEP nomination in her speech. I don't think she knows who Ferraro is either.

[TlalocW]

13. I don't think McCain was not serious about the presidency

The whole choosing Sarah Palin thing was due to republicans actually think so little of women that they believed that putting a woman on the ticket would be enough to attract Hillary supporters disappointed that Obama had won the democratic nomination.

TlalocW

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. That's my initial reaction to

Of course, they forgot about the fact that most women whom supported Hillary for POTUS don't naturally support the GOP's anti-women policies and the GOP having a woman on the ticket clearly wouldn't be enough to get them to vote for McLame and Failin'. :banghead:

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, for many reasons,

including how serious you are... would have been a far better choice. They went for the model, not the person with experience.

Though I agree with you. the place for women is in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. That is the ethos in the RNC.

[ljm2002]

6. Someone needs to tell her about...

...Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Janet Napolitano, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm... hell, go all the way back to Jeanette Rankin who was elected to Congress before women even had the vote. Name names. Note, be sure to include some women who were governors of their states (e.g. Janet Napolitano). Ask her what doors, exactly, has Palin opened that were not already open?

[CBHagman]

7. Palin has set women back, unfortunately.

She lacks expertise in any area and is chiefly a creation of 24/7 media coverage, a creature of sound bites and suits that look good on television.

[DBoon]

30. the Lindsay Lohan of politics

a manufactured catastrophy

[CBHagman]

40. Well, Lindsay Lohan can act...

...whereas Palin's shtick is just making mean-spirited (or flaky) sound bites, wrapping herself in the flag while balancing a gun in one hand and an apple pie in the other, and of course "fancy pageant walkin'."

[Stevenmarc]

8. If she want's to open a door, try the one marked EXIT

[Lint Head]

12. She opened doors for women to be quitters.

[Swamp Rat]

14. FUX Noise generation

Possibly the most ignorant one yet.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Some people look at her in awe

but I can't for the life of me figure out for what? :shrug: I suppose that many right-wingers cling to her because she represents their "version" of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama- in terms of her prominence and coverage by the corporate media. They may want to invest so heavily in her because she'll do and say anything that skewers and enrages us on the left no matter how dumb and/or offensive she is and also probably because she is a woman they can point to as if to prove that conservatives are not just a bunch of sexist Methuselahs. :shrug: Of course, as much as they want to latch on to her, Palin is simply not comparable to either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama- but they will never admit as much nor do her shortcomings, questionable decisions, or actual lack of any meaningful accomplishments matter to her devotees.

[cynatnite]

19. I am so glad Hillary Clinton refused to get on the same stage with her...

As I understand it, doing so would elevate Sarah Palin and Hillary refused to do that.

[justiceischeap]

16. Apparently your fellow classmate has never heard of Geraldine Ferraro

Hillary Clinton opened doors for women because she ran for PRESIDENT.

[Mz Pip]

17. Doors to what?

Doors can lead to many places, not all of them are positive.

Women are already in politics, so that's nothing new. Women have already been part of reality shows, have had books ghost written for them, been on talk shows.

I'd really like to know what new doors Sarah has opened for anyone but herself.

[JBoy]

18. Well, she's lowered the bar for what's required to achieve fame.

[sarge43]

22. Don't forget while she was mayor of Wasilla, women were billed

for the so called rape kit -- $300 to $1200 apiece - the only Alaskan PD to do so. Hardly a door opener, more like a bitch slap.

[cynatnite]

28. Yeah, that was a kick in the teeth of women. n/t

[rurallib]

24. how ever did you keep from laughing out loud?

[cynatnite]

29. I give myself a pat on the back for being able to keep quiet during the whole thing. n/t

[PBS Poll-435]

25. Then let her be a doorman (woman) at a NYC apartment building

This "lady" is dumber than dog snot.

[TBF]

26. I am reminded of my mom sputtering about Phyllis Schlafly back in the 70's -

she really hated that woman. "She wants everyone to have to stay home and not do anything - except herself!" she would exclaim. And mom was right. Palin is this generation's Schlafly.

[Hello_Kitty]

31. Queen Bees. Advancing themselves by stepping on the necks of other women. eom

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. Don't insult Phillis Shlrafly that way

at least she could write and was not talking to an even narrower spectrum of the American population...

[LiberalEsto]

27. She opened doors for moose-gutting

Now we ladies are free to run around killing and gutting moose whenever we damn well please.

[Arkansas Granny]

32. Maybe she literally meant "opened doors". I open doors for other women

all the time. Doors to offices, restrooms, grocery stores and so on. I've even opened doors for men, on some occasions. It's no big deal. ;-)

[eagertolearn]

33. I've used Sarah Palin and Michelle Baughman as example's to my girls

but of what not to be like. They are already way beyond those two in intelligence and how they respond to the world around them and they are only in college....so I believe they listened:)

[DenverDad]

34. Oh, but she has. Look at the opportunities for. . .

Bristol Palin, Willow Palin, Piper Palin. . .

[tanyev]

35. Yes. Anyone who wants to see her in the White House is embracing a new low.

[RagAss]

37. Opened doors to the Shithouse !!

[KatyaR]

38. Yeah....

Michelle Bachman, Jan Brewer, and Christine O'Donnell....

:rofl:

[Scout]

41. Sarah would open the (basement) door so she could push a woman down the stairs n/t