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To: JohnM who wrote (178176)	12/28/2011 4:20:39 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 544095

<<Maybe not, she is just another Palin and women did not like Palin because she made them look stupid. I think I'm lost in too many things going on in that sentence. I don't think you mean that women did not like Palin because Palin was so smart and she made them look dumb. I think you rather mean that because Palin looked so dumb women, in general, though she made them look dumb.>> Yes, that is what I meant. What you are seeing is my lower class upbringing. I do my best. Very little education until college. Ironically, partly because they skiped me a grade and I did not have the study habits to carry that. I did very little homework in high school or paid attention. I read in class. My old writer friend always said: "you will never get the lower class upbringing out of Chuck. I have come a long way in my journey, but only a few know it. Virtually uneducated at 20, to an existentialist at 26. That is a long journey. <<Assuming the latter, I don't recall any women I know arguing that. Or even remotely showing signs of concluding that. I don't think they thought she reflected on them at all.>> In Alaska even the conservative women deride Palin, but that is different. So upon reflection, I see your logic and you may be right. <<I don't know any smart, sane decent, Republican women. They all seem to be in the democratic pary. Loaded adjectives of course. And, given other things you've posted here, it's the classic tautology at work, well even hard at work. But I've always thought the two Maine senators fit that reasonably well, if I forgave them their politics. No doubt, if I spent some time thinking about it, I might come up with some more names.>> Not sure what you are getting at here? Those were two different ideas? The adjectives I believe are correct. There is no way the women in the Democratic party and Republican party are equally smart and decent, IMO. The women are just like the men in their respective parties, but not as venal. But it was sort of a joke. The Dem's have tons of very smart decent women in congress. Can't say that about the Republican party, IMO. The two Maine senators and Lisa Murkoski are all pretty normal and pretty smart, and are about as good as anyone gets in the Republican party, but they vote with them. And one has to ask why?; and why are they even in the Republican party, if they are so smart or decent IMO? I believe a persons politics reflect their philosophy of life. And to think both parties have equal amounts of smart, decent people is a matter of false equivalency. The two parties are as different as night and day and different types of people inhabit each one. Been that way, more or less, for 90 years.