CollegeGirl, not throwing in the entire thing you wrote as it takes up lots of extra space, but I wonder, if you truly have done your homework on the Republican ticket, why in the world would you or any progressive woman want to vote for two guys who have openly expressed their intent to turn back all the Rights women have gained to the pre-1950s?
Originally Posted by Solemate62
OK, again with soundbite logic. I would truly like a list of rights that the Romney-Ryan ticket plan on taking away from women? Abortion is a non-issue as it will never be completely outlawed, but i do worry about the amount of democrats who have said before officially that they favor every form or abortion including late term and partial birth. So if it takes a pro-life stance to make sure that we aren't going too overboard with the abortion option then i'll stand with them.
Mitt Romney's wife had to make an emergency landing yesterday and i was sick to see the amount of tweets from prominent liberals wishing her dead and using very sexist terms to show their dislike of her. Then Lets look at the way Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin, Condoleezza Rice, are talked about for being just republican women....and now you want to sell me the fairy tale that liberals are....what? Tolerant and accepting of everyone no matter their creed, gender, race, religion unless....they disagree with your political views then you are a bitch, cunt, a whore that just needs to get laid.
And on the topic of the party of tolerance about two months ago i was watching Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC talk for 15 minutes about the "crazy" religion of Mormonism. He actually said it was a crazy ridiculous religion. Now i am not a Mormon, but 6.1 million Americans are. It is a religion that is slandered and made fun of all over the place in our pop culture, but don't you dare attempt to insult Muslims, you may offend the 2.8 million Americans who currently worship Islam. So it's savvy and smart to attack Mormons or Christians in general, but it's "racist", intolerant, and ignorant to make fun of Islam. The selective tolerance of modern democrats is one of the most unattractive parts of their political ideology.
I respect people who vote Democrat based off of what works for them. We had a republican president for 8 years with Reagan, 4 years with Bush senior, 8 years with democrat Bill Clinton, another 8 years with republican Bush junior, then 4 years with democrat Obama. Thats 20 years with a republican in the white house and 12 years with a democrat, and if the republicans were out to strip women of all their rights and have us back to the way it was in the 50s then why hasn't it happened yet?? Surely 20 years would prove to give a few opportunities. I don't buy it. Again if Barack Obama has done good for your individual success and your family then yes you should vote for him. No argument there, and if he is representative to your values and beliefs then you have the obligation to vote your conscious. Just don't try to change my mind with platitudes and soundbites taken from left leaning media. I do my homework and i stay informed. I do not just watch fox news or read right wing websites, i watch and read anything i can to help me understand our political leaders. I do not like double standards and they do leave me suspicious of an underlying agenda being forced down my throat which is what i see with the Obama campaign and as a woman voter i'm obligated to vote my conscious and not believe that the party that celebrates sexism in their attacks on women across the political aisle really cares about me.