Proof that women are still held to a different standard then men, and N.O.W. stands silent on the subject!

You’ve got to give Governor Sarah Palin credit for putting up with some of the CRAP that has been coming from the media.  Many in the media are engaging in behavior so disreputable that they might as well be labeled as the reprobates that they are behaving as these days.

Is it fair for the media and the public at large to ask questions about how Governor Palin has acquitted herself while in Public Office of course?  Her votes, how she ran her campaigns, how she dealt with staff conflicts etc. are all fair games.  By evaluating these actions we are provided a glimpse into how she may behave as a potential Vice-President.  What is beyond the pale is the innuendos and rumor mongering that has taken over common sense and fair and balance journalism.  Even the New York Times (a paper not known for it’s right-lean) was quick to jump into the rumor mongering game and then had to turn around an issue an apology for providing false (yes I’m sure that this shocks you that the editor of the New York Times failed to vet their information completely before going to print) information to the public about Gov. Palin being a member of a third political party prior to joining the Republican Party.  Which is interesting since I thought we had a right to assemble in this country and folks were allowed to change political party affiliation as they see fit.  Of course if Gov. Palin had run and been elected to her office as this third party’s candidate and then turned around and changed her party, let’s say like that guy from Vermont did then maybe one could argue misleading the public, but even that would have been a minor “bump”; but this in and of itself would probably not be news worthy except it seemed to involve the most scurrilous class of people A Republican and a woman at that!  At issue here is that the same media that seems so fascinated with Gov. Palin, who’s only the VP pick while Sen. Obama, who’s the Presidential Nominee, seems to get a free pass at the same level of scrutiny.  While she’s been both a mayor (albeit of a small town) and then a Governor she has also been a commissioner of one of Alaska’s more significant commission and let’s not forget a member of the PTA a training ground for many women who eventually enter politics.  Senator Obama may have racked up a few more years in elected office, but I don’t put much stock in the time he’s spent in the US Senate since most of that time has been spent campaigning for the office of President.  Of course there were the years spent in the Illinois State House where most of the time he was busy taking the ever critical position of voting “present” nearly 100 times which really underwhelms this person.  When the rubber hits the road I think I would prefer a Governor who had the added experience of mayor (no matter how small or big the town) who had been trained by the good old folks at the PTA – because that group knows how to prepare community activists, over a smooth talking, prefer to vote present rather then aye or nay because it may come back to haunt me politico.  And the next time they decry Gov. Palin on her supposed lack of experience in case, God forbid, something happened to McCain remember President Harry S. Truman. “During his few weeks as Vice President, he scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other wartime problems became Truman’s to solve when, on April 12, 1945, he became President.”  He seemed to do alright and is remembered as one of our greats.

But what has me blogging today are not rumors such as those above, but instead the out right dismal failure of the self-appointed representatives and spokes groups of women’s rights.  And the greatest offender is the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.).  N.O.W. an organization according to its own public relations has approximately 500,000 supporting members (not women, but members) has decided to vilify Palin on their website, and has made no pubic statement (at least to my knowledge) about the double-standard being used to attack Palin versus let’s say their “women” candidates Obama and Biden (such shining examples of feminism that I’m sure every American woman would want their daughters to aspire to be just like them).  Granted I didn’t expect N.O.W. to endorse Palin though that might have been nice since its not every day that a woman makes it on to a Vice-Presidential ticket of a major party, just ask Senator Clinton; but they could have acknowledged her achievement.  But since N.O.W. couldn’t — so it didn’t and now everything representatives of N.O.W. have advocated such as whether or not a woman has children, is married, how she looks etc., should never count has been made to count because N.O.W.’s hatred of women who do not cleave to their “feminist” platform has caused them to remain silent.  So next time when N.O.W. comes knocking at your door for money to support them because “without them” women would be sent back to the 1950’s or further remember their silence on the invectives being used to tear down Gov. Palin for simply being what real women right’s advocates have always fought for which simply put is to be able to be comfortable in their own skins and to dream big.  You may disagree with some or all or Gov. Palin’s politics, but that doesn’t mean we can’t applaud her for her accomplishments.  But, N.O.W. should be ashamed for putting their politics before the “women” that their organization purports to empower.  Maybe this moose hunting, hockey playing, mother of five is too much woman for them.