So let me get this straight: I, a conservative female, have spent years defending the Republican Party against claims of sexism. When I saw Republican men getting attacked I stood up for them. I came to their defense. I fought on their behalf. I fought on behalf of a movement I believed in.
I fought on behalf of my principles while other women told me I hated my own sex. Not only charges of sexism, but I defended @marcorubio during Go8, I fought in my state to stop the @ScottWalker recall, etc… Now some Trojan horse nationalist sexual predator invades the @GOP, eating it alive, and you cowards sit this one out? He treats women like dogs, and you go against everything I – and other female conservatives – said you were & back down like cowards.
Get this straight: We don’t need you to stand up for us, YOU needed to stand up for us for YOU. For YOUR dignity. For YOUR reputation. Jeff Sessions says that he wouldn’t “characterize” Trump’s unauthorized groping of women as “assault.”
Are you kidding me?!
Others try to rebuke his comments, yet STILL choose to vote for a sexual predator – because let’s be honest, that’s what he is. “What he said is wrong, and the way he treats women is wrong, but it’s not wrong enough for me to not vote for him.”
Thanks, cowards.
Various men in the movement are writing it off as normal, confirming every stereotype the left has thrown at them. So I’m done. I’m sooo done.
If you can’t stand up for women & unendorse this piece of human garbage, you deserve every charge of sexism thrown at you. I’m just one woman, you won’t even notice my lack of presence at rallies, fair booths, etc. You won’t really care that I’m offended by your silence, and your inability to take a stand. But one by one you’ll watch more women like me go, & you’ll watch men of ACTUAL character follow us out the door.
And what you’ll be left with are the corrupt masses that foam at the mouth every time you step outside the lines. Men who truly see women as lesser beings, & women without self-respect. And your “guiding faith” & “principles” will be attached to them as well. And when it’s all said and done, all you’ll have left is the party The Left always accused you of being.
Scum.
Conor Friedersdort, quoting Marybeth Glenn: The Tweetstorm Heard ‘Round the Republican Party, The Atlantic
““What he said is wrong, and the way he treats women is wrong, but it’s not wrong enough for me to not vote for him.” Thanks, cowards.”
So she wants to choose “the other evil”? Or not vote? Yeah, that’ll make a HUGE difference. Since when has politics been about character? In my much younger (before I wised up) Republican days, I’d have labeled her RINO as well. I see a lot of those types in my state-perpetually the minority loosing party, almost the same as the democrats in political outlook; hungry for power and influence, telling Republicans that they should be re-elected because they brought home a token bit of cash from the state’s massive tax increase bill.Report
She’s resigning. She’s put a ton of effort into a ton of different things, and she’s out of there.
Her impact was more than just one vote, too. She was an organizer, someone who was getting stuff done. (So, say, her impact was ten votes, not just one).
Politics is about character, and wits, and good common sense. If you elect people who are anti-horsetrading, well, then when they drive the train off the cliff you get what you voted for.Report
Here’s a tip….trains been heading towards the cliff for decades, and speeding up. Choose the candidate that run the train at 90 mph or 120. Destination isn’t changing. Why worry.
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I also recall the hellish peace and prosperity of the Clinton administration, and have no more desire to return to those days that anyone else.Report
Ah yes, those were the days. They days when “is” was undefined.
Even the Fed is wondering if they can continue to inflate to generate more stimulus when it the marginal returns are almost zero now.Report
The Onion always did it best: Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’Report
Quite happy for Marybeth that this went viral. She’s well to my right, but I’ve long enjoyed reading and occasionally interacting with her.Report
So is does this chalk one up for “reality has a well known liberal bias”?Report
Yeah, pretty much. The one person who starts to bitch about conservatives being cowards.
Throw it into the liberal echo chamber, and you get this.
You see this all the time on dailykos — all the republicans who couldn’t stand being republican anymore.Report
Democrats don’t have a lot of room to be smug here, after turning a blind eye to similar behavior from Clinton back in the 90s.Report
But they will, because he was on the correct side.Report
This woman is a Republican, in fact, a Republican activist. Her good buddies in the Party kept telling her they were better than that.Report
We never claimed to be the moral majority.
That was the right. Because there is no righteousness like self-righteousness.Report
We didn’t with marijuana legalization?Report
Marijuana legalization is correct for tangible reasons as well tho’.Report
If you emphasize the individual above all, marijuana legalization is the only moral course.
If you emphasize the society above all, marijuana legalization is insane.Report
If you emphasize the society above all, you’re still concerned about:
Spending limited police resources on victimless crimes
Turning otherwise law-abiding citizens into criminals
Creating a revenue source for criminal organizations
Giving up the tax revenue legalization would provide
Marijuana being unregulated, and thus highly available to minorsReport
Don’t forget that it is darn good medicine for certain diseases.Report
This doesn’t seem quite right. The underlying motive [1] for a lot of socially conservative stands seems to have more to do with a desire to see society lay out clear moral dictates and have the state recognize those dictates, regardless of whether it actually reduces the immoral behavior in question. It’s almost a deontology vs. consequentialism kind of thing.
[1] If I’m feeling unusually charitable, which I am at the moment.Report
If you emphasize the society above all, marijuana legalization is insane.
Ditto alcohol, and cell phones/radios that work in cars when the transmission is not in park.Report
If you want to balance individual and society you have a much tougher and realistic course to try to discern.Report
Bravo & well stated.Report