19th Amendment and Sarah Palin
On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution, which grants women the right to vote, becomes law. Washington women had won the vote in 1910, after which Washington suffragists had helped with the national campaign to amend the constitution so that all American women could vote.
Eighty nine years after the 19th amendment, America is still engaging in conversations that seek to define who a feminist is and what she stands for. Without a doubt, Sarah Palin resurrected some of those conversations when she became the first woman to earn herself a place on a Republican ticket. Geraldine Ferraro had done the same for the Democratic ticket in 1984.
It is astounding that it took so long for both these accomplishments, and even more astounding that women are still in the position of defending their place within the political process. No one knows this more than Governor Sarah Palin. She has always acknowledged those women who have gone before her to pave the way for her and desires to be a source of inspiration for those girls who follow after her.
It is unfortunate that the governor has had to fight against the smears of both men and women, some of whom seem content with having a conservative woman exercise her right to vote, as long as she's not the woman we actually vote for. Nonetheless, Sarah Palin rises above the small thinking of some who want to put "feminism" in a box. Many women have now broken out of the box and are grateful, not only for the privilege given in 1920 to walk into that voting box, but to see the name of another woman staring back at them when they get in there.
In the video below, Governor Sarah Palin discusses with Greta van Susteren her commitment to uniting women on issues of health care and equal opportunities if ever she chooses to run for higher office again.
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Great article, Adrienne! I made a video along the same lines as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBu6polVXVs
Interested parties should go to ADN and see what a mockery they're trying to make of Sarah's support of Glenn Beck. They are using her facebook post, but they are recreating it to serve their own miscreants, who feed on Palin news as if it's her blood and they are vampires:
Palin: "I invite all my friends to watch" FOX's Glenn Beck
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/143165
It's easy to register with only a legitimate domain name:
(whatever)@yahoo.com
Use 99801 as the zip code and just have matching passwords. Unless you want to come back as the same iD, your info can be completly false. You can also add a flip picture under the profile link.
Thank you for this post, Adrienne! May we never forget the work of women like Susan B.Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who made it possible for us to vote today!
Way to go Sarah. Sarah has the knack to understand that she would have to govern all the people even those that disagree with her. Wise woman.
She will make a great President and may be the only one who can help unify this country after the years of Obama's destructiveness.
This interview was very impressive the first time I heard it and even more so now... This Lady connects and now having unlimited freedom will do what she does best, take her herself to the people!
I'll bet she is impressive, face to face, wold love to work for her campaigning some day and maybe meet her some where along the way.
Great post Adrienne. Sarah Palin leads with common sense...a great attribute.
OK, John. I usually don't respond to commenters such as yourself, but your inaccuracy and attitude has encouraged me to respond.
Why is a woman a conservative? Because we know that we are self-sufficient and self-determined in and of ourselves. Government has its proper role as outlined in the Constitution, but the government's role is not to dictate to us nor provide for us what we are capable of providing for ourselves. We believe the Constitution was set in place to limit the role of government, not to expand it. One of the roles of government, however, is to "provide for the common defense". Therefore, we believe that one of the roles that government should play is a role of a national defender.
As far as women's rights are concerned, Susan B. Anthony, the woman likely most responsible for the right granted us to vote was a staunchly pro-life conservative. Here is a quote from her:
"Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them."
Yes, some argue that pro-life women are anti-women because they "take away" a woman's right to choose. However, pro-life women believe that the choice occurs when the woman chooses to have sex, not when a pregnancy occurs. When a child results from sex, he or she is not a "punishment", he or she is a blessing, even if the child is born under less than ideal circumstances. Life begins at conception. There are heart-wrenching situations where a pregnancy results outside of a women's choice, such as in rape or incest. In these situations, the child that results is not any less valuable than in more ideal circumstances.
If you are referring to the Equal Rights amendment, had that passed, the results would have been undesirable to traditional feminists. Had this amendment passed, women would be just as likely as men to be drafted to go to war if that situation arose, and they would be just as responsible for child support in a divorce or similar situation.
I'm a conservative woman because I believe that we are self-sufficient, and we do not need to be reliant upon government! I believe that life is to be cherished regardless of the circumstances that it was conceived.I believe that true conservatism stands firmly on the platform of our Constitution.
Adrienne,
You are one heck of a woman. I truly enjoy the posts you provide. Gov. Palin is like a wonder drug to revitalize America and help the cause of women everywhere.
At the risk of offending some, I must note an important reason she resonates with so many of both genders, but speaking for myself and my gender, especially men. Gov. Palin is not a pacifist. She is what I like to call "a pioneer woman." While a profound stateswoman and wonderfully compassionate human, she knows and uses guns and can field-dress a moose. She would protect her family with everything she has in her. And that is why she will protect her country and all of us, too.
She does not compromise "just to keep everyone happy." She would not shrink from any challenge. She has principles that resonate with American men. This has seldom been the case in the world of political women. The genders have some different instinctive behaviors that often lead to women being more liberal in their thinking. Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi come to mind. Even Kay Baily Hutchison as a Republican. Look at Olympia Snowe.
I have always admired pioneer women and I honor all women for the balance, courage and beauty they bring to the world. Sarah Palin (and you) are the tops. Glad you have that special something that can help save our country.
Whitney and John,
Whitney: Good, thorough response.
John: Food for thought: You find it interesting when conservatives talk about suffrage? Well, I find it interesting when Liberals talk about racial equality and how they're supposedly the party of Black people. Had it been left up to them, Blacks would not be voting and would not have equal rights. You do know it was the Democrats who were the KKK members and doing the lynching, right? I know it's off topic slightly, but it proves--repectfully--that your comment needs further thinking-through.
I thought we have an uwritten rule ,not to respond to trolls (waste of time)
Great response though,Whitney.
John,
It's so nice of you to repeat your "argument" so that someone "ignorant" like me can better understand.
I don't want to make generalization or place people in categories, that's something liberals do, not conservatives. However, it seems many liberals see the pro-choice/pro-life debate as the main issue surrounding feminism. That being said, it isn't amazing how a pro-life woman was one of the women largely responsible for the women getting the right to vote? I will admit that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was probably more on the liberal side, so the effort was "bi-partisan" so to speak.
Why wouldn't a woman be a conservative? A strong woman would believe that she is self-determined and self-sufficient and has no need for government to give her what she is capable for providing for herself. A strong woman chooses not to play the "victim" when life hands her tough circumstances. A strong conservative woman believes that she should give generously from her money and talents, and she can do so even more generously if the government is willing to limit its spending and cut taxes.
I will leave at that. Just think about what I've written, and let it sink in. You seem pretty set in your ways, so my thoughts may have little effect on you. However, I feel I have sufficiently answered your question, "how can a woman be a conservative?"
I am a conservative woman, and I'm darn proud of it.
Sorry, guys, to have engaged in a discussion with a troll. I never do that, but he really got under my skin. I just felt the need to respond.
It looks as if he may have gotten scared off though.
Libertarians For Life
In 1976, when she became pro-life, Doris Gordon founded Libertarians for Life "because some libertarian had to blow the whistle."
As libertarians, LFL's interest in the abortion debate is in everyone's unalienable rights. LFL's reasoning is philosophical, not religious. Some LFL associates are religious; others, such as Gordon, are atheists.
LFL focuses mainly on two central points: personhood (what "person" means, and why all preborn children are persons); and parental obligation (how parents incur it). From our answers we conclude that prenatal children have the right to the protection of the law.
We also conclude that abortion-choicers can't disprove that the preborn are persons. They don't have a defense for abortion "rights" that even they agree upon. Nor do they have even one argument that holds water.
LFL uses many sources to gather information: libertarian and other publications, conversation, correspondence, etc. It scrutinizes arguments both for and against abortion "rights" to see what merit, if any, they have. It publishes articles explaining why abortion and abandonment are aggression under libertarian principles. Its newsletter, LFL Reports, has been published occasionally since 1981.
Is LFL doing any good? Our articles and letters have appeared in various publications, libertarian, pro-life, etc. We provide speakers for libertarian and other events. One staunch abortion-choice libertarian was heard to mutter about "creeping Gordonism." Others call abortion a "hot debate." LFL intends to keep feeding the flame. Please help.
Libertarians for Life's positions
Libertarianism affirms the central, inalienable right of all persons to be free from aggression (the initiation of force or fraud). Nonaggression belongs in every code of morality. LFL also affirms that from conception to death, we are persons with the right not to be killed. The killing of an innocent person, as in abortion, violates this right.
LFL further affirms that, under libertarian principles, parents owe their dependent children, born and preborn, care and protection from harm. Even if abortion were merely a case of "abandonment" or eviction, as some wish to rationalize it, it would still be wrongful death.
Dependent children are like "captives" of their parents, for they are in the parents' control. This is not voluntary for the children, but it is for the parents. Therefore, when parents choose not to provide care and the children get harmed, the parents have initiated force, and they are accountable.
Abortion, then, violates two rights of children: the right not to be killed, and the right to parental care and protection. Even when pregnancy is due to rape, both parents still have the general obligation not to kill or further endanger their innocent preborn child.
http://www.l4l.org/library/someinfo.html
Abortion and Rights: Applying Libertarian Principles Correctly
by Doris Gordon
Libertarians for Life
Copyright 1995, 1999
About This Article
In arguing that abortion should not be legal, pro-lifers generally focus on proving that a human being's life begins at conception. This argument often fails to persuade, because it does not confront the right of the woman to control her own body. Many pro-lifers talk as if they have lost the rights argument — or worse that they can never win it — and they end up painting rights as irrelevant and running away from it.
Turning this weakness on rights to their advantage, abortion choicers contemptuously attack abortion opponents as "anti-choice" and claim that to be anti-legal-abortion is to be anti-liberty.
Actually, however, pro-lifers own the libertarian high ground. This article, "Abortion and Rights: Applying Libertarian Principles Correctly," shows why.
Using non-religious arguments, it shows why libertarian principles apply to human beings from conception. Libertarianism's basic principle is the obligation not to aggress against anyone.
It follows from this obligation that the prenatal child has the right to be in the mother's womb.
Many people are confused on abortion, because they see the child's rights as being in conflict with the mother's rights. This article shows why no such conflict exists.
cont on link
http://www.l4l.org/library/abor-rts.html
I love these lefties that say conservatives kept women from getting the right to vote, when these lefties are the ones who don't give these potential women voters the right to life. Of course, they don't want potential men voters the right to life either.
They are worried about women voting, not so much about little girls being born.
Very Obama-like thinking.
Two words: Robert Byrd
John,
I have a reading list for you:
Why You're Wrong about the Right by S.E. Cupp and Brett Joshpe
Righting Feminism by Ronnee Schreiber
Gee...I wish Pukelosi was born before women could vote...
Oh Yeah, and Boxer and Feinstein...:)
Everyone,
John has succeeded in getting us off track--myself included. Let's ignore and just celebrate the 19th amendment. It's the distraction tactic so often put into play by those who oppose.
Go Sarah! Go women! Go conservatives!
John isn't much of a student of women's history, is he? If he were, he'd know that the Republicans have traditionally been the party of women's rights. It was Republicans who first admitted women as delegates, and a Republican who first sponsored the 19th Amendment. The Democrats, on the other hand, defeated it. When it was reintroduced and finally passed muster with Congress, it was ratified largely in part due to the fact that most states were then governed and legislated by Republicans. And the first woman to serve in Congress? She was a Republican, too. The GOP was also first to promote the Equal Rights Amendment.
All of this changed, and women started identifying more with the Democrats not coincidentally in the early 70s -- shortly after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion. The Democrats -- true to form -- annointed themselves the party of women by aligning themselves with the pro-abortion crowd. The same people at the forefront of the feminist movement at the time. These feminists are left-wing fringe who co-opted an entire movement and defined it almost entirely through the lens of abortion. If you were for abortion, you were pro-woman. If you were opposed to it, you were anti-woman. There has been -- at least in my lifetime (and in Sarah Palin's as well) no room in the feminist sphere for women who think differently on this topic. And it does a great disservice to women and girls to define women's rights so narrowly; instead of uniting us on issues such as equal pay, equal opportunity, domestic violence, etc., millions of us have felt for years disenfranchised and lacking a voice, all because we refuse to subscribe to the absurdity that in order to be a "real" woman, one must be in favor of abortion and eschew traditional female roles such as that of wife and mother. For a group that claims to be such zealous guardians of "choice," they certainly have a low level of tolerance for women who make choices different from theirs.
Naturally the Democrats capitalized on this discord, just as they managed to position themselves as the party of every other minority group in America. As far as women are concerned, I think many of them are given to relying more on emotion than reason, and the Democrats being the party of what "feels good," it's no surprise that women gravitate to that.
But for the first time in decades, more women identify as pro-life than pro-abortion. That's a sea change. We are ushering in the third wave of feminism, a more enlightened feminism where we ALL have a place at the table, and where differing viewpoints on specific issues are welcome, not shunned. Sarah Palin is positioned perfectly to lead the way and restore the GOP as the party of women. Honestly, if the Republicans and get back to the basics, embrace the core principles of personal liberty and limited government intervention, there's no reason that every segment of the population can't find a home there. These are universals that EVERYONE believes in. We don't need to compromise on our values to create a bigger tent; we need to embrace them.
Whitney
The House passage of the bill that got the 19th Amendment rolling was
304 to 89 on May 21st 1919.
According to the Office Of The Clerk in the House in 1919 it was laid out
215-Republican
214-Democrat
3-Progressives
1-Independent Republican (whatever he hell that means.)
1-Prohibitionist
1-Socialist
The Senate passed it 56-25 and were laid out
49-Republican
47-Democrat
"I agree with you. Robert Byrd is an excellent example of a racist dixiecrat.
He simply failed to make the switch to today's racist GOP.
Ever wonder why that is?"
Perhaps because he's a liberal on foreign policy and economics.
Much like everything they do, the term "Liberal" has been highjacked by the left. It now stands for a more radical agenda, that has little to do with "Liberty".
The Founders were classical Liberals– today's modern Conservative. I highly doubt the Founders would have anything in common with today's Liberal.
John posted this "Fun Fact" before it mysteriously disappeared:
"Byrd received a 65 percent vote rating from the League of Conservative voters."
After Googling this the only thing that hit back was that he recieved "65 percent vote rating from the League of CONSERVATION Voters for his environmentally friendly information.
"Fraud" indeed!
I see the troll has resorted to the typical statist response when faced with indisputable facts: Hurling invective.
John, you LOSE.
Let's get the term right!
She's a Fruad, not a fraud!
And I'm not ashamed to call myself a Fruad too!
In fact, I want to shout it from the mountain tops!
I am a Sarah Palin Fruad! And I want the whole world to know it!
Palin Blows Off Yet Another Conservative Event. Poor thing, those greedy church people were obviously USING her to sell tickets!
http://www.adn.com/palin/story/912369.html
Don't bother blasing invective at me, I'm already gone and won't be back. Just thought you could use a little news from the outside world.
It would be at least the fourth time in recent months that an anticipated Palin speech has fallen through after Palin and her camp disputed they had ever confirmed it. That includes the brouhaha over whether she'd speak at the annual congressional Republican fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., this summer.
Alaska Family Council President Jim Minnery said it was news to him when a reporter told him that Stapleton was saying Palin had no knowledge of the speech, which his group has been promoting. He said organizers have been talking to Palin "contacts" for weeks about it.
"All we can do is take people at their word..." Minnery said. "We've been working for several weeks on the event, promoting it very heavily..."
Helen wrote:
"Palin Blows Off Yet Another Conservative Event. Poor thing, those greedy church people were obviously USING her to sell tickets!"
And your problem is.........
Oh, wait a minute, you are already gone.
I will write something anyways. She NEVER confirmed the event. It is the EVENT's fault, not Palin's fault.
Australia gave women the vote in 1902, 18 years before the US.
Australia has virtually double as a percentage female representation in the federal and state parliaments than the US.
Adrienne:
Great article.
When she was chosen by McCain, I only knew that Sarah Palin was the Governor of Alaska. So I went to Wikipedia. Her membership in Feminists for Life is one of the very first things they tell the reader. I got it - finally a politician with real courage.
I immediately joined Feminists for Life.
When I joined Team Sarah, I also became a member of its sponsor, The Susan B. Anthony List.
When Sarah Palin's brand of feminism becomes the norm, and it will, this country will again be deserving of His blessings.
Palin contacts? Anonymous? This is getting so bad Meg needs to put a calendar out there with scheduled events. If it is blank it is blank. I'm fine with that.
Now where is Sarah? That is a big question. She is out of State?
In the interview Palin stated that she is a "pro-life feminist"
The Libertarian position not only supports that concept but in fact defines the high moral ground for it.
John Galt,
Thank you for sharing the libertarian support for the pro-life stance.
Thank you also for showing Dagny the way!:)
One thing that must irk all the liberal women currently in Congress is that no matter what they do or say or advocate, they are unlikely to be remembered or quoted in history. Boxer and Feinstein will be forgotten the day they leave office. Nancy Pelosi may have some mention in history as Speaker of the House but will be tainted as a leader who plunged the United States into unpresidented debt and who was hateful, shrill, and inherently stupid.
I have a feeling that Sarah Palin will have an esteemed and significant role in history even if she never assumes the role of president. Despite all the venom and lies the left has thrown her way, she has perservered and has assummed a leadership role in the fight for freedom from the most corrupt and power hungry administration in American history.
History will record that she gave up her seat of power to become the voice of the people and fought battles for the most part alone, even against criticism from those who she should have been able to depend on for support.
I hope that history will write that the American people rose up in support of this woman and echoed her voice to the very halls of government. I hope that history will write that this courageous woman succeeded and was elected as the First Woman President of the United States. I hope that history will write that in Washington she suceeded in defeating the decades of political corruption and set the American government back on the course of a Constitutional Republic as our founding fathers intended. I hope that the American people became so aware of the evil that can grow from an out of control federal government that they used their votes to sweep into office a new breed of citizen politicians. I hope that politicians were elected who understand the true duty and limits of government. I hope that the American people stay engaged in politics and hold their government responsible for their actions.
I HOPE that history writes that this remarkable woman brought the CHANGE to Washington that America truly needs and that it will last for generations to come.
Even Sarah cannot do this alone. She needs us to become engaged and to be better stewards of government. We must never again allow ourselves to be governed by politicians like the corrupt and loathsome creatures currently in office. We as Americans have a duty to stand firm and instill the Fear of the People into every politician's heart.
Awesome post, kjanlady. As this administration grows more corrupt by the day, and willfully disregards the limitations placed on it by the Constitution; as it continues to spend recklessly, hand over fist, money it does not have, employing dangerous monetary policy that has the capacity to bankrupt us; as we continue to ignore the bullies and dictators of the world (or worse, invite them onto our soil) and permit ourselves to become beholden to hostile foreign regimes that would just as soon blow us up as sell us oil . . . I thank God Sarah Palin is out there. I don't know what her plans are, but I know she will follow her servant's heart and do what she believes God intends for her to do. And I am confident God intends her to be our first woman president. We NEED someone like her, someone no nonsense who will roll back the entitlement spending, root out the corruption, properly fund our military, and drill our own oil! I don't think it's a coincidence that all of the things Obama is doing to dismantle this country are the very areas in which Sarah Palin made a name for herself as a leader. As I said the other day, she will be POTUS. I believe it is written.
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As for the ADN piece, perhaps I'm watching too much Glenn Beck and I've become paranoid, but it seems like these "she's-coming-oops!-she's-not" incidents have happened too many times now to be explained by simple miscommunication with the Palin camp. How many "Palin contacts" are there really anyway? They appear to be a four- or five-person operation at present. Surely if one of these folks misspoke and said she'd be there it shouldn't be hard to figure out who it was. It's certainly telling that these "contacts" are being kept anonymous, no? I seriously wouldn't put it past the Alinskyites to manufacture all of these crossed wires just to make Sarah look bad and her operation seem second-rate.
This was a FAKE "appearance":
Star Parker invented this fake "appearance":
"Please join Governor SARAH PALIN & nationally known conservative STAR PARKER Thursday, August 27th 7:30pm at Change Point Church Anchorage"
Star Parker (born 1956) is an American author. Parker is also an advocate and spokesperson for mainstream American conservative causes. She holds an undergraduate degree in marketing.
Parker is an African American woman who spent her teen and early adult years as an unemployed mother on welfare. She was arrested in her teens for shoplifting and has disclosed the fact that she has had four abortions.[1]
Parker became a Christian and subsequently became a spokesperson for related political issues. She opposes the welfare system, claiming that welfare is similar to an invitation to a government plantation, which creates a situation where those who accept the invitation switch mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?"
Before Sarah Palin emerged, I was quick to declare that I was not a feminist. I would never have even wanted to be referred to as such. I still do not describe myself in that way because of what it generally connotes, but one thing I saw in Sarah was an opportunity to redefine of what a feminist is. Actually, it wasn't a redefining; it was a taking back of that term, a restoration to its original intent. There's still a lot of work to do to that end, but Sarah is a very good start.
FYI: Star Parker will be on the Eddie Burke Radio Show at 4:00 AK time today: www.kbyr.com
ITA Adrienne -- Sarah will be remembered in the history books as the leader of the third wave of feminism. Her name will be right up there with Susan B. Anthony's.
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