Women of America. Are you happy that you finally have a positive role model to look up to now?

Question

Instead of looking up to shallow Hollywood celebrities and gossipy talk show hosts, you now have a real woman who stands for the morals and values this country was built on (and society is trying to erase) to emulate.

I'm happy for you, it's been a long time coming.

Answer 1

If you're talking about Palin then sure, she's a role model. Not that she's a positive role model, but she's in the spotlight now and her positions will be laid out for all to see.

Just wait until the women of America hear that she's against abortion for any reason whatsoever. That means if a woman is raped or if her life is in danger, she still shouldn't have an abortion.

Wait until they hear that she's all about big oil and to h**l with the environment - drill drill drill. Not that it would help solve our energy problems or dependence on foreign oil, since we could tap every drop of oil from our shores and our nation would use it up in a few months.

The real Palin will come out during the next few months and hopefully her debate with Biden.

Answer 2

ok, whatever dude, I think you are still asleep dreaming here...but whatever...

Answer 3

She's no role Model....and she practices shady politics...

She will not be getting my vote

Answer 4

While I like and support Sarah Palin and think she WILL make a great Vice President. . . .Mary, mother of Jesus, gave me a role model all of my life !!!!

Answer 5

There have been no female role models in America?

Answer 6

This question is an insult to all the true great American women.

Answer 7

LOL  I am old enough to be her mother, and I certainly would never pick a politician for a role model who thinks that the US send troops to Iraq on a "task that is from God."

I was leaning towards  McCain until he made is VP selection.

Independent for Obama/Biden

Answer 8

-yes, get a degree where I can sleep my way to the top.

-enter beauty contests and live off my looks instead of brains

-get preggo and live in a trailor park where I use my degree to gossip

-teach the word of god but do otherwise

-act stupid....boys like it

Answer 9

SHE IS NOT A POSITIVE ROLE MODEL - MORE LIKE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO WOMEN AND MOTHERS!!

Answer 10

She is a role model? She is a liar with no answers and wants to take womens right of choice aweay from them. She is such a great role model they don't teach s*x education in schools and I guess she didn't teach it either.

Who wants to look up to a liar? We have already had plenty lately!

Attacks, praise stretch truth at GOP convention

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in

Answer 11

you've got to be kidding, right?  eleanor roosevelt was here long before this chick.

as a role model, palin is a bit backward in her thinking...  imo, creationism being taught in public schools is not positive or progress.  

Answer 12

yeah "role model", more like a religious whack job!!! Who is busy preaching about implementing abstinence but she can't even implement abstinence in her own home!!!!!

Answer 13

Yes....

It's nice seeing a woman come from a REAL blue collar family and work her way from city council to mayor to governor to VP.

Now THAT'S that American dream.

Answer 14

No. I don't like Sarah Palin. I don't agree with her views and her using God the way she does. If she doesn't see the problem with doing it then she is not an intelligent person and not fit for a national position.

edit: There are plenty of women role models but I'm not convinced that you will find them within the Republican party.

Answer 15

morals?....values?...that the country was built on?

could you supply a source?

Answer 16

uhm.  i've had a positve role model.  i like to call her my mother.

thanks.

Answer 17

She's got it all. I can see her being president one day.

Answer 18

Yes i AM. i am a McCain supporter but i also looked up to H.R Clinton and was proud of her. Obama has nothing on H. R Clinton!

Answer 19

I agree totally. Ms. Palin is the most positive woman I have seen in politics ever. I did find that Margaret Thatcher was also a positive role model but women should be very proud they have a real down to earth woman and a new voice coming to Washington. Dems are in a frenzy now so beware of anything after this point. This is the time when they manufacture the most lies. Get your givaway booze, cigarettes and street money together dems. Vote buying is what you'll really need now.

Answer 20

LOL!

A woman now under investigation for abusing her power.

An investigation whereby the defence legal team is paid for by the country.

Shameful doesn't even begin to express it.

Answer 21

What positive role model are you talking about?  If you're referring to Palin, give me a break.  She's no "Republican version of Barack Obama".  She has no substance, no morals, and no backbone.  She's just another Republican butt-kisser.  Maybe if Mrs. Abstinence was home teaching her daughter about morals, she wouldn't be pregnant.  Palin does NOT represent the majority of what women want in a candidate.  Most women want abortion rights, they want environmental protection, and they want taxes raised on the upper class.  Palin is against all those things.  

I didn't like Hillary Clinton, but Sarah Palin is worse.

Answer 22

And one that has always be proud of America.

Answer 23

I've been a staunch advocate of removing the elttists from government and turning it over to regular folks. However, I did not anticipate going from one end of the social spectrum to the other, from elitist to white trash.

You mention morals and values yet she's raised a daughter who is pregnant and unmarried. I'm not sure that's something I'd like to see our society emulate since we're overrun with fatherless crack babies as it is.

I think that choosing Palin was a wise political move but I also think she's as flawed as the jerkoffs sitting in the DC Ivory Towers. With people like her in office the country is still doomed.

The only good politician is a dead politician.

Answer 24

My mother told me to keep my legs crossed until I was married. And I did. She was a super stay at home mom that kept us kids on the straight and narrow-unlike Brittney Spear's sister-that had an out of wedlock teen pregnacy-celebrity scum!

Answer 25

Sounds like a sexist question to me.  There have been plenty of female role models in history.

The better question is, aren't you glad they picked someone who could give McCain a fighting chance in this election?

Answer 26

She is certainly not my role model. I admire all the unsung heroes, the  mothers who put the needs of their family before their own selfish agenda. It is easy to give birth to children and then turf them to a nanny. The hard part is to take a lesser job that does not require being away from your family for extended periods of time.This is what I consider to be a good mother.