Thursday.....Politics....Maggie Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick Would Have Been Proud

There is an ad that I often see in the magazines where a man is fishing from a boat, with his back to the waterfalls that are fast approaching. A rather incredible thing is happening in our nation today, as it also drifts aimlessly towards a waterfall, for women have pushed the men aside, taken hold of the oars and are attempting to row the boat to shore before catastrophe strikes. Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Star Parker and Sharron Angle are just a few of the many women who have risen in defense of this nation and there are many more behind word processors, microphones and in the home. They are smart, articulate, motivated, confident and courageous as they entered the fray with the Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosis of this world. They've been mercilessly attacked, particularly by the Liberal/Progressive women who long ago jettisoned the quality of feminism in favor of robocharm. The feminist movement succeeded for those who bought into it and showed them that they can be every bit as shallow, greedy self-centered and short-sighted as we men can be. Congratulations! We can be very thankful for these Conservative women, many of whom have raised children of their own and refuse to turn them over to Karl Marx and Hillary. The criticisms of these mama grizzlies are often, at best, absurd. An example of politics in this beginning of the 21st century, can be seen in the recent controversy concerning Meg Whitman. This Liberal/Progressive element has absolutely no use for truth or ethics. There is no conscience to hold one back. Any rational observer, no matter what their political affiliation, should be able to look at this story and gasp what have we come to, that we can distort to such a extent that there is not a scintilla of ethics in the motives of those behind it trying to gain votes. The story should not even be Meg Whitman, it should be the outrageous charges, the acting and the deceit that some are capable of and the blindness of the media in failing to call it what it is.  Christine O'Donnell is another example. Hillary had her personal seances in attempting to contact the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt while in the White House, but O'Donnell admits to toying with witchcraft in her youth and she is ridiculed with the attempt to severely injure. The issue is not O'Donnell's youthful indiscretions or even Hillary's impersonation of Shirley MacLaine, the issue should be the overt attempt to destroy a person for political gain. Christine O'Donnell is being attacked because she is an average person, a normal person who has the audacity of seeking a United States Senate seat without having first knelt at the altar of corporate greed or party politics. It's reported that Maureen Dowd will attach the label "mean" on all these women in her upcoming column. There's a scene in the film School Ties which starred Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon, where the school's director found evidence that someone was cheating on an exam. Damon, who was the guilty student, and knowing that this "elite" school would not stop before finding the culprit, pointed to Fraser, an innocent student, and said "He is the cheater." This is what is happening in the onslaught of verbal attacks on these fine women. Can it get worse than this? Probably. Do we ever want to see it? No. Some of these women may not win their races but they are the better half of the Republican Party. The Declaration of Independence concludes with these words by the men who signed it; And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. That banner was about to fall but was picked up by these women and they are being assailed because of it. What are we men willing to pledge to each other or do we have to go over the waterfall before we will even consider the question?