Governor Sarah Palin Gives Moms Something To Get Excited About
What and exciting weekend for moms all across this great country of ours! I thought it was exciting to see Lindsay Davenport reach the third round of the US Open after the birth of her first child this weekend, proving to women that they can be mothers and continue in their profession. Then comes the announcement from the Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, that he has chosen Governor Sarah Palin from Alaska to be his running mate in the the upcoming election for president. Wow, Wow, and double Wow.
Governor Sarah Palin is a mother. She is not just the mother of grown children who are on their own or soon to be on their own. She is the mother of five, one of whom is an infant! I repeat. Sarah Palin is a governor and a mother of an infant and is a candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States. Do you know what this means?
If Sarah Palin becomes the Vice President of our United States, she would have achieved the highest political office that a woman has ever achieved in this country. She would be the highest politically ranked working mother in America! She would have shattered the glass ceiling for working moms. She would have proven that it is possible for a woman to be a mother and to be a high-ranking official in this country. She will be the example that a woman can be a mother and a professional -that a woman can lead and go home to her family at the end of a long day, just as her male counterparts have done for centuries. She would have proven that a woman does not have to chose between having small children and advancing to the top of her career.
This campaign is going to be fun to watch. I will be keeping close track how Gov. Sarah Palin’s status as a mother is being portrayed in the media. These next months are going to be very telling for the future of working women in America. The timing of McCain’s announcement is enormously historic and appropriate as it comes over the weekend of the anniversary of women getting the right to vote on August 26th, 1920.
Do you think Sarah Palin’s nomination will advance the efforts of the working mother?
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Tags: breaking the galss ceiling, Govenor Sarah Palin, John McCain, Working Mothers
Surely you must be kidding. Sarah Palin takes women back about 25 years & thousands of backward steps. Sure she’s a mother, but so are millions of other Americans. Being a working mom has nothing to do with her ability to hold the office of VP. I believe McCain was ’strong-armed’ into choosing a person whom he’d barely even met. I’ve never been a fan of McCain & this just reassures me that my beliefs about him are valid. We definitely DO NOT need 4 more years the drivel we’ve been subjected to for the past 8. YIKES! Wake up!!
The hoopla over the Republican nominee has been fascinating for me. I stare at the television listening to news anchors and media heads talk about how Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with and the new Republican ’starr. Um…excuse me but were we watching the same speech? I am a business owner, writer, wife, Christia, and mother of four (not at all in that order), and I found her speech to be callous, sarcastic, and just plain mean. These are not the attributes of someone that I would want my children to emulate.
So while election day is not here yet…any ticket with this type of vicious rhetoric is not a ticket with my vote.
Do you think you should get excited about women not making the same pay as men OR the fact that she slashed funding for teen moms in Alaska OR the fact that she believes that the Iraq war was a “task sent from God”??
Let me guess, you’re just excited BECAUSE she’s a woman. That’s reverse discrimination.
What is concerning is that some woman will vote for the Repulicans just because they have a woman running for Vice President. How irresponsible!!
I live on a dirt road, I own a gun, I have hunted and I fish. I have 4 kids, am a hockey mom (and lacrosse) and have a well established position in a local company. Please do not vote me in as Vice President just because you love my lifestyle, that is ludicrous!!
Sarah is an inspiration to all Mom’s!
Glad McCain chose her for VP.
They have my support.
You go lady!!! Power to all women, whether you believe in her or not, the point is that this is a gaint step for women everywhere. Very liberating!!
I’m not inspired or liberated by Sarah Palin. She hasn’t done anything yet. Maybe when she gets some creds.. I’ll feel differently.
She is an inspiration to all Mom’s!
I am suprised at all you moms who don’t support her.
Sarah Palin is a national embarrassment.
Chuckie is for Palin. His mom is not. She’s sarcastic. She should take a lesson from Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama. She’s a classy one, that Michelle