Why have women been saying that they are "insulted" by the choice of Palin for VP?

Question

Especially Hillary Clinton supporters.

Answer 1

Because she is pretty and Hillary is not ?

Answer 2

May I suggest that a vocal group of women are insulted.

I don't know about USA  but it seems to me in UK that it is only the loudmouths that get reported in the press.

OK so Hilary Clinton supporters are making a fuss. Did you expect anything else?    

Answer 3

because men choose her so that she can keep women under the thumb of men while living a full life herself.  

Answer 4

the ones that say that are...liberal women! remember they want women empowerment...as long as it is a liberal woman doing it!  they just want their agenda and NOT necessarily empowerment for ALL women...they are pathetic!

Answer 5

CBN analysis of GOP strategy seems both thorough & accurate here:-

GOP Strategy: Steady as She Goes

By Paul Strand

CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent

September 2, 2008

http://CBNNews.com - ST PAUL, Minnesota - Many conservatives put up a real fight against John McCain in the primary season but some analysts feel his embrace of certain issues won over enough conservatives to secure the nomination.

Now what?

The accepted wisdom is that Republicans should run to the right for the primaries and then head back to the middle for the general election. But is that what people at this convention think John McCain should do?"

"The conventional wisdom is almost always wrong," Gary Bauer of Campaign for Working Families said.

Bauer says McCain shouldn't change a thing.

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"I think he just needs to continue to be John McCain. Because while he's conservative, his maverick image also helps him to reach out to independent voters and perhaps even Hillary voters. So I think he should just continue to do exactly what's he's been doing."

New Mexico Representative Heather Wilson agrees. She points out she's from a state where a Republican may be conservative, but needs to know how to appeal in all directions.

Wilson said, "You need conservative Democrats and independents to win and John McCain has tremendous appeal there, because he doesn't just toe the party line. He does what he thinks is right and he puts his country first. And I think people like that about him."

Former New Hampshire congressman Charles Bass heads up the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership.

He thinks McCain won the nomination not because he tried to act conservative, but because many voters saw him as the only Republican who could win the presidency this year.

"It became apparent that John McCain had just the right formula in 2008 to beat a Democrat in a year when Democrats are strong," Bass said.

And though McCain's been criticized by some moderates for picking the conservative Sarah Palin as his running mate, Bass thinks her reputation as a reformer will override that...

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/436769.aspx

Answer 6

Some woman might feel this way - but the majority don't.

They have been fighting to level the playing field for far too long to dismiss the importance of having a woman on the presidential ticket.

Answer 7

Because they have a brain.  They know why McCain picked Palin, and that is extremely inuslting.  They also know there are plenty of other female republicans wiith more experience who could have been choosen, but she was more attractive.

Answer 8

Well, obviously Palin was chosen (primarily) simply to woo disillusioned Clinton supporters, which would imply that women only liked Clinton because she's a woman.  As though somehow all the female Clinton supporters will simply jump on board with Palin because of her gender and ignore her policies, which happen to be the polar opposite of Clinton's.  

I can understand some of them feeling insulted.  Perhaps it's not completely justified, but surely you can understand?

Answer 9

That is not a problem because non have, your spin has great big holes in it.

Answer 10

Your question is very easy to answer...

It's because most intelligent, self-confident, successful women know that this woman is extremely conservative, incredibly self-righteous and takes a stance on many issues upon which other women completely disagree.

I'll give you an example of how my opinion contrasts with Sarah Palin's - her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Fine. Her daughter will be married because of this. Not fine.

That's just one example, the list is endless really. Hillary Clinton was the only woman who deserved to be in the White House.

Sarah Palin needs to move into the real world.  

Answer 11

Because Palin is not the role model women want as Vice President.

Answer 12

They have? The ones I know are bright enough to say, wait and see. Peace

Answer 13

Because on the face of the matter it seems that there were many more qualified candidates - Romney, Pawlenty, Ridge, etc - who were passed over and that she was chosen simply because she was a woman.  It seemed like they were picking a token woman who McCain had barely met simply because women would then vote for the ticket.  "You would have voted for Hillary Clinton, well we have a candidate with a v****a too!  Vote for the vag!"

Answer 14

I am a woman and completely support Palin. I am not insulted at all so not all woman think that way. I think it is time for a woman who is pro life and Republican and promotes being a wife and mother was elected. Palin and McCain are getting my vote.  

Answer 15

McCain is a long time sexist.  He makes rude and crude jokes about women.  He publicly calls his current wife a c**t.  And then he picks a conservative Republican woman as his VP.  One whose views are more from the 1950s than 2008.  Can you say hypocrisy?

Answer 16

I don't believe that anyone, apart from certain self interested types, is saying that.  

Answer 17

b/c she is a rabid conservative and I hate the fact on where she stands on almost every single issue.  I want some kind of gun control, I do not think creation should be taught in public schools, her abortion stance is sick sorry if you are raped, or your health is in jeopardy you should not be forced to have a baby, but it should be done in the first trimester, she was a mayor or a town with less population than my high school, gov. of the least popular state in the country.  I also feel she was chosen only b/c she was a women and I find that insulting