By Dave
Oct 22nd 2008 9:03AM
Filed Under:eBreaking News, 2008 President, Sarah Palin
CBS - From The Road
"And if I'm given the honor of serving you in the White House, I intend to advance that creed in our own nation and beyond because across the world, there are still places where women are subjugated and persecuted as they were in Afghanistan, places we're they're bullied and brutalized and murdered in honor killings, places where women are sold like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their mothers are forced to have abortions," Palin said.
"Now no one person, no one leader, can bring an end to all of those ills, to all of the injustices inflicting upon women, but I can promise you this, if I am elected, these women, too, will have an advocate and a defender in the 47th vice president of the United States."
"When it came time for choosing some how Barack Obama just couldn't bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary and that seems to be too familiar a story isn't it?" she said. "How it is for so many American women that the qualifications are there, but for some reason the promotion never comes. There is always some long explanation for why they got passed over or some unseen barrier, some excuse and that's just one of the things I so admire about John McCain he is not someone who makes excuses."
"According to the Senate pay roll records women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get," Palin said. "That's $9,000 less every year that he pays the guys.
"Does he think that the women aren't working as hard? Does he think that they are 17 percent less productive? And Barack Obama cant say that this is just the way that its always been done around the Capitol, because I know one senator who actually does pay equal wages for equal work, Sen. John McCain."
Boom. Ouch. Landed a blow.
One last note. Everyone, pundits, media, is harping on the reports that Palin's favorability is negative and sinking. What they seem to forget is that it is precisely the job of a VP to be the hatchetman, er, -person. This quite often has a negative impact on the VP's favorability ratings, for instance, Bob Dole in 1976 gained a rep that he didn't shake until after his disastrous run in 96. Sarah Palin has been on the attack for about three weeks now and coupled with a relentless media onslaught on everything from tanning beds to expense reports, it doesn't surprise me.
She was picked to rally and energize the base to give McCain a platform to win. She's done that to great effect. If in the process she becomes the bogeyman for the liberals, well that's all part of the game. If McCain wins, she did her job and if he loses, she goes back to governing Alaska where her deeds will speak much louder than 10,000 biased media articles.
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