The lie of the feminist left

"1.) Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility.

2.) The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of woman and man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and especially resistance to oppression.

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11.) The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of woman . . .

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13.) For maintenance of public authority and for expenses of administration, taxation of women and men is equal; she takes part in all forced labor service, in all painful tasks; she must herefore have the same proportion in the distribution of places, employments, offices, dignities, and in industry."

- Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women, France, September 1791

The French Revolution perhaps marked the high tide of woman's involvement in the French government before the modern period. Women like Olympe de Gouges wrote about demanding rights for women equal to men while the National Assembly began according liberties to French people who heretofore had had no rights under the Ancien Regime.

Over two hundred years later in America, the left continues to 'champion' the cause of Women's Rights and the individual rights of a woman to be equal to men, to hold public office, to communicate freely and speak their mind. Well... Maybe not speak their mind. After all, since Democratic hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) failed to gain her party's bid for President, the left has been disgruntled. Ah but there is hope! Or is there? Sarah Palin, the Republican Governor of Alaska, a middle class hockey mom turned politician accepted the Vice Presidential nomination for the Republican McCain ticket.

One would think that feminists everywhere would be overjoyed, especially those feminists who vote Democrat. Their own party betrayed them first by not making Hillary Clinton the Presidential nominee, and secondly by Sen. Obama's pick of Joe Biden as his running mate. For someone who wants change from the 'old white man's game' of politics in Washington D.C., Senator Obama certainly seems willing to play to that tune. Yet, for all their bluster about women's rights, what has the liberal left, including hollywood celebrities, done about Sarah Palin? Mocked her. Threatened her. Called her a 'pig with lipstick' to paraphrase Senator Obama's own comments. They've even barred her from attending shows.

Brigitte Bardot, a French legend of a former actress, called Palin a disgrace to women? Why is that? Because she's been successful in rooting out corruption in her home state? Because she's had just as meteoric a rise as Senator Obama and proven that women can easily compete with men? Because she's stuck to her principles on tough issues like abortion by having a mentally handicapped child rather than killing it? Or is it because she recognizes that humankind alone is not 100% of the cause of every problem facing our environment right now? Perhaps Sandra Bernhard can answer when she gets over her foot in mouth disease after making a gang-rape joke about Sarah Palin.

The liberal left is full of hypocrisy, and it is time that Democrats and Independents realized it. Sadly, they cannot stomach a woman who thinks for herself and comes to the conclusion that a family is important. The liberal left cannot stomach the idea of a woman reaching political heights with conservative ideals. They can't put aside their own agenda long enough to cheer for the fact that a woman, if the McCain/Palin ticket wins in November, will be in the highest elected office of this nation for the first time in history.

Feminists, where do your loyalties lie? To the cause of a woman's right to choose her own destiny no matter what that life is? To the cause of advancing a woman's political participation in the government of these United States? To the cause of educating women to be above the sway of politically motivated alarmists? Or is it to the cause of the liberal left, which loves to play a carrot and stick game with social, ethnic, and religious minorities?

Ladies, the liberal left had the chance to put a woman in the white house, and they failed twice in a row. The conservative right has picked up that slack and given you a candidate that is both a strong woman, and a good mother and role model. The choice to anyone who wants to support the cause of women's rights is clear.