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To: LindyBill who wrote (192928)	1/14/2007 3:52:23 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 793897

"I think the GOP should give up trying to demonize Nancy Pelosi. The Botox gags and bug-eyed photos won't work. Tonally, she seems very normal, in ways that, for example, certain presidentially inclined New York senators can never quite manage. But Pelosi's fellow California liberals and those gushing feminist columnists ought to ponder why 'the most powerful woman in America' is quite so untypical: What does it say when it's the exception that proves the ruler?" Comment by MJ I give Pelosi credit for her achievements in life. Having done so does not imply that I agree with her on what she hopes to accomplish as Speaker of the House of Representatives. When one becomes known in politics you are fair game regardless of sex. Pelosi is no spring chicken. She knows that and likely delights in the name recognition she is getting. Is Pelosi untypical? I find her rather typical of the American women who did not fully embrace the feminist message of the 1980's. Score one for her. The feminist movement in the 1980's into the early 1990's denigrated and alienated a large portion of women because of not valuing homemakers and mothers. Their message was to put the children in daycare or hire a nanny if you were wealthy enough--------and get on with being somebody. The feminist failed to recognize that these women were educated women who had made conscious decisions to have careers as "domestic engineers". In Virginia, there were many women who did not buy the feminist message. These women, housewives and mothers, brought the Republican Party out of the telephone booth to becoming a power in Virginia. They did every unpaid job in politics-----from being party poll watchers, managing( free-gratis) campaigns; organizing party caucuses; negotiating party policy at 2 a.m. in the morning, fielding women candidates some who won and some who did not win. This is just a little vignette of these typical Virginia women. mj