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January 12, 2007 |
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Here are some of the childless members of the United States Senate. Maria Cantwell: single, no crumb crunchers. Barbara Mikulski: single, no crumb crunchers. Olympia Snowe, Maine: married, no crumb crunchers. Susan Collins, Republican, Maine: single, no crumb crunchers. Libby Dole: North Carolina, married, no kids. Six members of the US Senate also without children, and I'll bet you Barbara Boxer has not once insulted them over the fact that they have no children and told them that their judgment and their decisions on anything having to do with children are irrelevant and perhaps flawed because they don't have any.
 This is more and more of this effort by Democrats to disqualify people rather than debate them. Barbara Boxer was not interested in hearing a thing Condoleezza Rice had to say. She wanted to disqualify her as a credible source, and that was it, period, which is another tactic that you should learn to expect from the left because at what win these debates. They can't win, and if they get into them, it doesn't take long before they blow up and tart attacking people personally, calling them names, this sort of thing. The average liberal on this program cannot last longer than 30 seconds before descending into that kind of behavior. Now, there are some -- and they're rare, and we enjoy their conversations, but as I say, they're very rare. As I say, one out of every 20 liberals, we end up having opportunity to talk to for longer than a minute or two. |
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I also got a note saying that Jack Reed's wife just had a baby so he may no longer be childless in the Senate, but even without him there's still five, and the idea that being childless means you cannot manage a war, means you cannot run the state department or come up to the Senate and defend administration policy on the war? I'll tell you what, the liberals are coming up with new and more inventive reasons to silence people that they don't want to hear, and you all ought to be taking note of this. I do, of course.
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One more thing about this Barbara Boxer thing with Condoleezza Rice. Now, let's go back to the early dawn, shall we say, the modern era of the movement of feminazis. I trace the beginning, the dawn of this modern era to the late sixties and early seventies -- and, of course, the tenets that were present in feminism then were: "You are not to orient your life around your relationship. You are not to have your relationship or a man be the central focus of your life and the primary reason for your happiness. You are not to become imprisoned in the home. Motherhood is subjugation; motherhood is oppression. You are not to do that. You are to get on the career track. You are to start climbing the corporate ladder. You are to be more like men." Well, they didn't say it that way, but that's what they were advocating. Somehow men own the world, and women were being shut out, and they had to get in and take over as much as they could of the male-dominated parts of society in order to realize their potential.
A woman who stayed home, a woman who chose motherhood was letting down the rest of her sisters! Well, now part and parcel of that mix is: don't have kids. All right. Well, there are a lot of women in their early forties, late thirties, who followed that prescription, and they are miserable, because biology is biology. Men and women, of course, are different. That is news to a lot of people but nevertheless true, and it always has been true. You have a lot of women out there who followed that advice, and they thought that was the route to emancipation, happiness, fulfillment, personally, socially, politically, you name it. But something happens when they don't end up having children. All of a sudden now, to take us back to Barbara Boxer insulting Condoleezza Rice -- there were two things involved here. Number one: she's trying to disqualify and discredit Condoleezza Rice.
Liberals cannot win against us in debates. They seek to disqualify us. The second thing going on here is that it's a disguised attempt at squelched speech. "Dr. Rice, you don't have children! You are paying no price! Your decisions about this war and as secretary of state, I don't want to hear; I don't want to have to put up with! I don't think you are in that position." Barbara Boxer did not want to let Condoleezza Rice have a say about anything, and if she did, she was going to try to disqualify her. So it's an attack, disguised though it may be, on free speech. But when you strip all that away, what happened to the early tenets of feminism, ladies and gentlemen? Condoleezza Rice ought to be the role model for people like Barbara Boxer! She should be held out as exactly what the feminist movement was demanding every woman be. She has reached the pinnacle of her success, she has reached the pinnacle of her life. She has climbed heights and assumed heights most women never will, and here she's being berated for it!
She's being beaten up for it and she's being told that she's not qualified because she doesn't have kids, because she's not paying a personal price. So, in other words, one of the proponents of the dawn of the early era of feminism is now throwing out one of the basic tenets, and that is: you've gotta have kids or you don't count. Now, I ask you ladies who have followed the proscriptions of feminism: are you confused yet? Is any of this confusing you? You've followed all these rules, and you followed all this advice and now the people that gave you the advice are turning around and telling you that, "Hey, wait a minute. You followed our rules. You're not really a complete woman. You don't have kids. You're disqualified from serving in government. You're disqualified from making decisions that affect other people because you don't have kids," when all along feminists, young women in the late sixties and seventies bought into this, thought that was what they were supposed to do?
Now they've reached this age, and I guarantee you a lot of them regret it, and you can see it also in other areas. Women in their mid-thirties, early thirties who have been on the corporate fast track, climbing that ladder out there, trying to bust the glass ceiling or whatever it is, the biological time bomb, ticktock ticktock, and they have a baby or two, and they are insistent when they have the baby: "I'll be back! I'll have the nanny or day care take care of the kid. I'll be back." More and more of them are staying home, because, you know what? They want to be with their baby -- imagine -- and they enjoy it, and it's happening more and more and more. Feminists have to be thrown for a loop here. They've had wild success in changing the culture. They've had wild success in feminizing many elements of our culture today, but if you just look at the basic tenets of what they were teaching, most of those have fallen apart. It was just exhibited profoundly and was on wild public display with Barbara Boxer and Condoleezza Rice.
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