Thursday, September 18, 2008
Maybe Oprah should tape a show on Alzheimer's in Florida
I recently read in a local newspaper that there is some great kerfuffle over Oprah Winfrey’s refusal to have Sarah Palin on her television show. Now I can’t really give a rat’s ass about this nonsense… although I suppose if I did happen to come into possession of a rat’s ass I would happily give it to Mrs. Palin wrapped in a bright blue box from Tiffany the tag affixed spelling out in delicate script “To Mommy Dearest”. However that is neither here nor there.
What struck me was this quote from the Miami Herald’s conversation with Linda Ivell, champion of the NO O boycott and president of The Florida Federation of Republican Women, "We are deeply disappointed in Ms. Winfrey's decision to sit out the greatest political moment in the history of women since suffrage."
WHAT?
Could she be that excited by the first gun-toting, rape victim loathing, Alaskan secessionist female candidate for the nation’s number two seat? I have to ask because this as a way of giving Ms. Ivell the benefit of the doubt. I would hate to think that she had succumbed to the convenient periodic dementia endemic to her party and forgotten that just a scant eleven months shy of a quarter century ago the United States of America saw the first major party nomination of a woman for the Vice Presidency. If Ms. Ivell is such an ardent feminist I’m sure that she must recall with great pride the announcement of Geraldine Ferraro as the Democratic candidate for Vice President back in 1984. I’m sure that she strode to the polling place that November with head held high and voted Mondale/Ferraro not Reagan/Bush. Because she believes above all else in progress for women, just like Oprah.
What struck me was this quote from the Miami Herald’s conversation with Linda Ivell, champion of the NO O boycott and president of The Florida Federation of Republican Women, "We are deeply disappointed in Ms. Winfrey's decision to sit out the greatest political moment in the history of women since suffrage."
WHAT?
Could she be that excited by the first gun-toting, rape victim loathing, Alaskan secessionist female candidate for the nation’s number two seat? I have to ask because this as a way of giving Ms. Ivell the benefit of the doubt. I would hate to think that she had succumbed to the convenient periodic dementia endemic to her party and forgotten that just a scant eleven months shy of a quarter century ago the United States of America saw the first major party nomination of a woman for the Vice Presidency. If Ms. Ivell is such an ardent feminist I’m sure that she must recall with great pride the announcement of Geraldine Ferraro as the Democratic candidate for Vice President back in 1984. I’m sure that she strode to the polling place that November with head held high and voted Mondale/Ferraro not Reagan/Bush. Because she believes above all else in progress for women, just like Oprah.
