The Left’s war on conservative women: We’re damned if we do stay home, and damned if

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 02:51 AM

Welcome to liberal logic...

If you're a Republican female and don't stay at home to care for your family, you're a piece of sh*t...

But if you're a Republican that DOES stay at home to care for your family?...

...Well that just makes you a piece of sh*t, too...

The Left’s war on conservative women: We’re damned if we do stay home, and damned if we don’t

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Hilary Rosen takes a page from the old femme playbook

Hillary Clinton did it to stay-at-home moms in 1992:

Hypocrite: Hillary's demeaning cookies-and-tea stereotype - YouTube

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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession…

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Teresa Heinz-Kerry did it to Laura Bush in 2004:

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Q: You’d be different from Laura Bush?

A: Well, you know, I don’t know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don’t know that she’s ever had a real job — I mean, since she’s been grown up.

And now, Anita Dunn colleague and Huffington Post Beltway insider Hilary Rosen has done it to Ann Romney

She’s “never worked a day in her life.”

I am also reminded of the liberal elite female journalists who scolded Sarah Palin for being a working mom in 2008:

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Let’s talk Mommy Wars, double standards, and the media elite. Last Friday, Obama Campaign National Finance Committee member Howard Gutman attacked Sarah Palin’s ability to be a good parent and have a high-powered public life at the same time. In a finger-wagging appearance on the Laura Ingraham radio show, Obama’s operative scolded the Republican mother of five children for not putting her professional career on hold.

“Your responsibility is to put your family first,” Gutman lectured as he singled out Palin’s Down’s Syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter. “The proper attack is not that a woman shouldn’t run for vice president with five kids, it’s that a parent, when they have a family in need,” should get out of the public sphere and stay home.

The Gutman standard has now been proffered by countless Obama hacks and water-carrying commentators. Damningly, it’s high-powered working mothers in the journalism business helping to broadcast the anti-Palin slams or doing nothing to defend her.

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien denied Palin attacks on her network, even as her colleague John Roberts asked: “”There’s also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome…. Children with Down’s syndrome require an awful lot of attention. The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?”

NBC’s Meredeith Viera asserted that only blogs went after Palin’s motherhood abilities while running for veep, even as her colleague Brian Williams slyly raised feminists’ “fears or doubts that she should be able to do this, that she should be doing this.”

How would CNN’s O’Brien like the Gutman standard applied to her? She’s been working overtime covering the presidential campaign season, anchoring daily coverage, nighttime conventions, and producing documentaries that require large chunks of time away from home. Disney’s Family Parenting website lauds her as “a modern mom balancing a thriving career as one of America’s top news anchors along with her four children” – two daughters now ages 7 and 6 and twin boys who are 4. Where are the Palin-bashers to lambaste O’Brien’s professional pursuits?

How about Katie Couric? Her husband died at 42 when her daughters were 6 and 2 years old. With two young children devastated by the loss of a father, she opted not to quit journalism. She anchored NBC’s Today Show through his illness and death, continued working an intensive, time-consuming schedule as one of America’s most visible broadcast journalists while a single mother with two fatherless children at home, and then jumped to CBS News, where she maintains a rigorous on-air schedule, travel plans, and off-air social calendar. Where are the finger-waggers?

Also at CNN, Campbell Brown flew to Las Vegas last year to moderate a political debate while 8 ½ months’ pregnant. Fox News host and left-wing blogger Alan Colmes, last seen questioning Sarah Palin’s commitment to prenatal care because she worked and traveld late in her pregnancy, had no comment. When she initially left the Today Show in 2007, Brown said she was stepping down to devote more time to family and baby. She immediately turned around the next day and jumped ship to CNN, where she has anchored wall-to-wall CNN Election Center coverage and will launch a new nightly show in November.

…As a working woman in the media for 16 years and a working mother in the media for the last eight. I know the commitment and energy it took for these women to get to the top. I’ve filed columns from hospital beds, written books while nursing, brought my toddlers to TV studios, and told bedtime stories on the cell phone while boarding planes. I’ve worked hard to strike the “balance” we all seek. I’ve made good choices and bad choices, and have no regrets about the opportunities I’ve taken and the opportunities I’ve rejected. I couldn’t have done it without a supportive husband willing to forego his own career goals – the kind of spouse that the media has ignored in Todd Palin and the kind of spouse I’m sure the Sisterhood of the Protected Female Journalist all have.

I don’t challenge the commitment these fellow working mothers in the media have to their home lives. What I challenge is their silence and complicity as the Palin-bashers impose a “Family First” double standard on conservatives. The sorority is closed to the Right.

This is how the Left’s war on conservative women works:

We’re damned if we do stay home and we’re damned if we don’t.

We’re damned because we conservative moms drive the Left and its feminist shills mad with our mere existence, our exercise of free will, our fierce belief in protecting our families from the Nanny State, our embrace of free-market principles, and our rejection of the perpetual victim/grievance mentality.

From Hillary Clinton to Hilary Rosen, progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle.

If doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you’re Right, the Left is gonna hate.

Chauvinists can wear heels, too.

And to top it off, people wonder why more women don't get into politics...

THIS is why...

Infidel Dog · #2 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 05:17 AM

Remember how they went after Rush with wall to wall attack media and boycotts when he called that 31 year old activist a slut?

OK, he was a bad boy, but bet you never heard about the attacks on Wisconsin's Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch by the liberal talk show host.

Liberals Silent as WTDY Sly Sylvester Savagely Attacks WS Lt Gov Rebecca Kleefisch - YouTube

saltwn · #3 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 05:22 AM

When my two eldest children were young, people put me down for working; then when I was able to stay home with the younger kids when they were small, everyone thought it was weird I didn't try to help my husband by working. You have to do what's right for you and your own family.

Infidel Dog · #4 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 05:25 AM

Then there was the Conservative blogger lady who committed the crime of beating a Progressive blogger in a contest for Political Blogging Mums.

The leftist fascist trolls have been going after her hard and dirty.

Juvenile Tricks From Our Friends on the Left – Updated | The Lonely Conservative

They're going after one of her buddies who did well in the contest too.

Are Conservative Bloggers Being Targeted? | SENTRY JOURNAL

MrLiberty · #5 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 06:46 AM

Politics are a dirty business, and we are constantly lectured by the left that families should be off limits. I respect that a politicians family should never be attacked or brought into a political campaign. However, because of the lefts double standard when they can't run on their record and people see what an empty suit they are they will drag out the mud and start throwing no matter who it is, wife, children, who ever.

The left did it to the Bush girls and and now they are demeaning Romney's wife.

Dave1 · #6 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by MrLiberty

The left did it to the Bush girls and and now they are demeaning Romney's wife.

Thank goodness Michelle Obama doesn't have to deal with that non sense....

That side of the coin was left covered up Mr. L

You are right about politics being a dirty business.....

cnredd · #7 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MrLiberty

Politics are a dirty business, and we are constantly lectured by the left that families should be off limits. I respect that a politicians family should never be attacked or brought into a political campaign. However, because of the lefts double standard when they can't run on their record and people see what an empty suit they are they will drag out the mud and start throwing no matter who it is, wife, children, who ever.

The left did it to the Bush girls and and now they are demeaning Romney's wife.

The person who attacked Ann Romney?...Hilary Rosen?...

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White House visitor logs show that Hilary Rosen, the DC lobbyist/Anita Dunn colleague who attacked Ann Romney’s stay-at-home-mom status on CNN last night, visited 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. at least 35 times.

For the last three years, Hilary Rosen has met nearly three dozen times with top Obama communications and political strategists from Valerie Jarrett to David Axelrod to Anita Dunn to Jim Messina to the president himself.

Any notion that her frontal assault on GOP women was an accident or lone wolf move is contradicted by the long paper trail of her intimate working relationship with the White House campaign/media team. The data also puts the disavowals of Messina/Axelrod last night into much-needed perspective.

They can’t disassociate themselves from one of their most frequent visitors and associates.

Just a coinky-dink, I'm sure...

cnredd · #8 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 11:48 AM

This is just too f**kin' funny (as in "pathetic")...

DNC adviser and frequent White House visitor Hilary Rosen attacks Mitt Romney's wife...

Let's hear her opinion about attacking candidates' wives in 2008...

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In 2008, Rosen derided Republican attacks against Michelle Obama as an example as "stupid strategy."

"You know essentially, you've taken on sort of the most sympathetic person in the candidate's realm, the wife, who is taking care of the children, supporting the husband, doing everything she can because she loves him," Rosen said on Anderson Cooper 360 according to a CNN transcript from May 19, 2008.

"Michelle Obama is a pretty terrific woman I have to say, and I think that attacking her is a dumb strategy on the Republican's part," Rosen added.

I have no idea how Rosen's not dead from whiplash...

MrLiberty · #9 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave1

Thank goodness Michelle Obama doesn't have to deal with that non sense....

That side of the coin was left covered up Mr. L

You are right about politics being a dirty business.....

I thought I addressed that when I said, "a politicians family should never be attacked or brought into a political campaign."

cnredd · #10 (**permalink**) 04-12-2012, 01:29 PM

Update!...

Rosen Apologizes ... Then Triples Down

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Amid a massive backlash from the American public and a stampeding retreat from her supporters, Democratic National Committee advisor Hilary Rosen backtracked from her words about Ann Romney last night on CNN, stating a few moments ago, “As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen … I apologize to Ann Romney.” Here's the complete statement:

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Let's put the faux "war against stay at home moms" to rest once and for all. As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is. As a pundit, I know my words on CNN last night were poorly chosen. In response to Mitt Romney on the campaign trail referring to his wife as a better person to answer questions about women than he is, I was discussing his lack of a record on the plight of women's financial struggles. Here is my more fulsome view of the issues. As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day. I apologize to Ann Romney and anyone else who was offended. Let's declare peace in this phony war and go back to focus on the substance.

This is not an apology. It is a declaration of war. As I pointed out earlier today, the piece to which Rosen links says that Ann Romney is not an "expert" on women, and essentially makes the claim that she can't speak for women because she was a stay-at-home mom. She says that gender equality isn't a talking point for her, but she also deems certain lifestyle choices disqualifying in terms of representing other women. This is no "phony war." It's a very real war, started by the left--and they're only declaring it "phony" now that their true feelings about women with whom they disagree politically are revealed.

The question is whether the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee will apologize to Romney, and whether they will fire Rosen over this incident. Rosen has long been associated with the Obama team and the DNC, and her apology means virtually nothing considering that she's still defending the substance of the comments.

In other words. "I stepped in sh*t, and anyone who says I stepped in sh*t is phony"...

I'm guessing the Obama bus will be bouncing over her carcass by Friday..."Reveal the truth about how we think? You got to go!"...

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