The GOP and Women

If you are of the female persuasion you should be very upset with the GOP and the two positions that they are taking this week. No woman in her right mind should be standing on the right side of the political road. The GOP has always been a right wing, evangelical, white male, good old boys club with no regards for minorities, young people and women. Women, minorities and young people are considered second class citizens to the Republican party.

The GOP is looking down its nose at John McCains's daughter Meghan because she tends to be a centrist Republican. Meghan recently has been promoting her views of what the Republican Party meens to her. She does not stand hard along party lines like a fat, old, white man. She is in touch with the younger generation and their need to lighten up on some of the social issues that the old guard Republicans stand for. The old guard say she needs to grow up and understand taxes before she can become the voice for the Republican Party. The GOP is throwing away all of the voters under the age of 35 with statements like that. All young people should take note that the only young people that the GOP want are the yes men, Hitler youth, that will not think for themselves but bow to the old evangelical white way.

President Obama is supposedly considering 10 different women for the position on the Supreme Court that Davis Souter is going to vacate. The GOP has already taken a position against everyone of them. Ten highly educated women, Federal Appellate Judges, Law Professors, Federal District Judges, Solicitor Generals and Assistant Solicitor Generals and according to the GOP not one of them is qualified. Lets be frank here, is it that they are not qualified or is it that they are women. According to the GOP way of thinking a second class citizen, like a woman, does not belong on the Supreme Court Bench. "Its an immense opportunity to build the conservative movement," said Richard Viguerie a GOP fund raiser. "Its a massive teaching moment for America". Lesson learned, women belong barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, not on the Supreme Court. Way to alienate the female vote, dude.

President Obama is set to speak at Notre Dame University commencement exercises. Many right wing conservative groups are planning on disrupting the Presidents speech. I was always taught in the Catholic schools that I attended, that you learn more by listening than by talking. Maybe these groups should shut up and listen so that they can learn what the other side has to say. Notre Dame is supposed to be a institution of higher learning. Is ND about thinking and educating or just regurgitating back what the professors think in order to get a grade. Students and Families should be the only people allowed on campus, the outside rabble rousers should be kept off campus or arrested. The fact that the religious right is trying to stifle the freedom of speech of the President of the United States is appalling. I might not believe in abortion but I do believe that it is an individuals right to choose an abortion if their consequences are not suitable to having a child. I cannot make that choice for every pregnant woman in the United States. Every situation is different. This should not be a political issue it is a religious issue. Abortion issues should be taught in the churches not in the courtrooms. I say less government when it comes to the rights of an individuals body. I also do not agree with seat belt laws but that is another blog.

So what have we learned? The GOP is against young women because they need to grow up before they can express an opinion. The GOP is against any woman being appointed to the Supreme Court. The GOP is against a woman being able to choose what is right for her body. If I was a woman I would not be voting Republican any time soon. The women that do vote Republican are told to do so by their old, white, evangelical, husbands.