Feminism ='s liberalism

Beverley McPhail complains about Sarah Palin's feminist credentials in a Houston Chronicle op-ed. Depite the fact that she is a female success story, McPhail says she is not a feminist success story. This is primarily because McPhail equates feminism to liberalism and her complaints about Sarah Palin is that she is not a liberal. Of course, if she were, she would have no appeal to conservative voters.

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... Every one of her views stood in stark contrast to a progressive, feminist agenda. Palin is anti-choice and anti-comprehensive sexuality education, and was against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

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Progressives are the fascist side of liberal control freak government who continually push an anti freedom agenda. Wow, how did you like that insult exchange?

I think McPhail misstates Palin position to say she is anti choice or anti comprehensive sex ed. She strongly favors choosing life and has made that her personal choice. People like McPhail don't like the choice Sarah Palin has made. While she favors abstinence sex ed, she does not oppose birth control and has said so. We now know that while abstinence may not work for everyone, it is the most effective way of dealing with teen pregnancy despite the mistake Bristol made.

When McPhail says Palin, "speaks in tired, Republican sound bites," it sounds like a tired liberal sound bite that shows a deep ignorance of what Republicans honestly believe to be the best policy positions. That Palin supports those positions makes her so attractive to conservatives. McPahil's positions are what make her and most feminist so unattractive to mainstream conservatives.

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