The Democrats are sounding more and more shrill these days, which just goes to show how badly the McCain/Palin ticket is scaring them. Here’s Governor Claire McCaskill suggesting on ABC’s This Week that McCain/Palin don’t support equal pay for women. And that they want to put raped women who have an abortion in jail.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It is true that this week, we saw a 20-point swing among white women in our ABC News poll.
MCCASKILL: Let me say, I think Sarah Palin has an incredibly winning personality. She’s a very skilled politician. And I understand a post-convention bump. And she’s a great role model for working women. I mean, I’m talking as a woman who took my breast pump to work for all three of my children. So that’s terrific.
MCCASKILL: But women of America are going to kick the tires the next 55 days, George, and they’re going to going to find out that this is a ticket that wants to put women in prison for having an abortion after they have been raped.
This is a ticket that has—is opposed to equal pay for equal work. This is a ticket that does not embrace early childhood education. This is a ticket…
It’s almost grotesque to see how McCaskill goes into full-on scare monger mode when confronted with the idea that American women might be favoring Sarah Palin with their support. I wonder what support McCaskill has for her claims?
As far as equal pay for women, is McCaskill really suggesting that Palin doesn’t think she should be paid as much as men? That her daughters shouldn’t be paid as much as men? What proof of this is there, other than McCaskill’s claims?
On abortion, I have to chuckle when liberals try to paint those who are pro-life as being extremists simply because they’re pro-life. Do these liberals not understand that the abortion issue was not settled by the Democratic process? And that this nation is essentially in grid lock over this most controversial of issues? A huge slice of the country is pro-life, and when McCaskill suggests that these people are extremists she shows just how connected both she and her party are on abortion.
And let’s remember that pregnancies from rape represent a tiny, tiny fraction of all pregnancies in the United States. But Democrats talk about those pregnancies all the time because they’re making an emotional argument in favor of abortion rather than a logical one. But logic, and science, tells us that life begins at conception and is a continuum of growth of development thereafter unless interrupted.
Like by a doctor wielding the implements of abortion, for instance.
Finally, why most abortion always be the issue upon which feminism is hung? I know many strong, independent women with careers and responsibilities and capabilities that are equivalent to those of any men and they’re pro-life. Is McCaskill suggesting that in order for these women to be true feminists they must also be in favor of abortion?