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Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann: Will they put the kibosh

on future Republican women seeking to win the White House?

 

 

News, Switzerland

Bachmann-Palin: Twilight of the Female Republican Gods?

 

"This raises the question of whether with these Tea-Party goddesses, Republicans want to ensure twilight for their party by undermining the electability of female Republicans for a long time to come. Because in the end, few will remember the dubious Santorums, Christies, Johnsons or Cains. But Bachmann and Palin will long cling like female portents to the walls of our consciousness."

 

By Patrik Etschmayer

                                     

 

Translated By Carol Goetzky

 

Jun 6, 2011

 

Switzerland - News - Original Article (German)

Sarah Palin is probably known by everyone. The Tea Party icon from Alaska who was selected as a way to boost John McCain’s presidential hopes in effect helped sink his candidacy against Barack Obama, because rather than attract voters, she frightened them away with her interviews, her appearance and her lack of experience.

 

That didn't stop her from chucking her post as governor of Alaska in mid-2009, subsequently star in an outdoor reality show and publish an autobiography that she hadn't written to pave the way for a possible presidential campaign in 2012.

 

Thus, while she became the most public person in the United States, she fought tooth-and-nail to prevent e-mails from her nepotism-marked term as governor of Alaska (which in Alaska, however, is the norm) from being made available to the public. 

 

Although there are now nearly 25,000 pages to be published, over 2,000 remain closed, along with the great number of e-mails she apparently sent illegally via her private e-mail account - even though they dealt with official business.   

 

Despite her popularity among a large portion of right-wing Republicans, Palin hasn't yet dared announce her candidacy. Many observers seriously doubt that she really intends to, and that she simply wants to take advantage of the attention to retain her market value. On the other hand, a “no-show” would seriously damage her reputation, even among her faithful followers, and even though she could excuse herself by saying that her knowledge of history needs an urgent brush up (this, after she twisted the story of American Revolutionary hero Paul Revere beyond recognition last week - which immediately became a YouTube sensation). 

 

 

But her fans might have an alternative with similar goals who they can throw their sympathies behind - and one who also cannot be dissuaded from making catastrophic historical gaffes: Michelle Bachmann. It was Bachmann who claimed at a New Hampshire fundraiser that the revolutionary battles of Lexington and Concord took place in that state. However, both places are now - as then - located due south, in the neighboring state of Massachusetts, which in New Hampshire is regarded as left-of-center. And it wasn't a slip of the tongue - because she had specially prepared her speech for that fundraiser and was apparently too lazy to take a moment to look it up on Wikipedia.

 

 

Even more glaring was her statement in January, when she claimed that the “founding fathers of the United States worked tirelessly until slavery was abolished,” a statement that is simply, utterly wrong. Likewise, various other slip-ups don't seem to be keeping her from striving higher and aiming for the White House. In any case, her statements suggest that she'll be the first female contender in the Republican field.     

Posted by WORLDMEETS.US

 

So perhaps all Sarah Palin is waiting for is Bachmann, who, among other things, also never tires of interpreting every political development as a sign of the coming apocalypse (which each attempts to support with Biblical verse) - because then Palin will know for sure that she'll appear triumphantly competent compared to at least one candidate in the Republican field. 

 

Not that the other already announced Republican nominees are that much better than Bachmann and Palin. The only one as strikingly bad as these two was Donald Trump, who has tucked tail and gotten out. 

 

Which raises the question of whether with these Tea-Party goddesses, Republicans want to ensure twilight for their party by undermining the electability of female Republicans for a long time to come. Because in the end, few will remember the dubious Santorums, Christies, Johnsons or Cains. But Bachmann and Palin will long cling like female portents to the walls of our consciousness. 

 

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US June 12, 4:09pm]

 

 

 

 

 







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