The 25-year span of political dominance by pro-abortion women and
political recruiter EMILY’s List may soon come to a close, as a record
number of pro-life women vie for office.
Whether it was the liberals’ attempt to destroy former Alaska
Gov. Sarah Palin during the 2008 election or the overreaching,
abortion-driven agenda being forced on Americans by President Obama and
the Democrat majority,
From U.S. House and Senate races to gubernatorial bids to state
and local contests, two women in the Republican House leadership
believe that 2010 will be a transformative year for conservative women
in politics.
’146 GOOD REASONS TO VOTE’
During an interview with National Review Online, U.S. Reps.
Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington
state said:
“Women voters are fired up for this year’s election and will most
definitely not be staying home on Nov. 2, and there are at least 146
good reasons for this.
“A record number of Republican women have sought federal office
this year – 129 GOP women in House races and 17 in Senate races. In
1994, another record-breaking year, 91 Republican women ran for the
House and 13 for the Senate. How can EMILY’s List say that the party is
running women out when more and more women are running?
“This is the year of the strong conservative woman, but because
those women are overwhelmingly pro-life, EMILY’s List clearly doesn’t
see them as good enough.”
Rogers added that conservative women candidates are now a better
reflection of the majority of American women:
“The type of women we are running – political outsiders who are
moms, small-business women, women who up until recently never thought
of running for office but were inspired to run because of the dangerous
course (on which) President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are taking America
— are threatening to the liberal special-interest groups who believe
that to be a woman you must be a liberal and that conservative women
candidates…must not only be defeated, but also branded as somehow
anti-woman. This is absurd.”
EMILY’S LIST-LESS ATTACKS
Liberal media pundits, along with pro-abortion politicians and
activist groups, have denounced the veracity of what conservatives have
coined as the “Year of the Conservative (Pro-Life) Woman.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president and chief executive officer of
the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) – the pro-life movement’s answer
to EMILY’s List – said the number of pro-life women in this election
cycle is turning into a referendum on abortion politics.
“EMILY’s List is running scared –and it shows,” Dannenfelser
said. “Clearly, in this ‘Year of the Pro-Life Woman,’ which Sarah Palin
helped make possible, women have found their political voices. Pro-life
‘Mama Grizzlies’ represent the majority of women across the country.”
NATURALLY CONSERVATIVE
Bruce Walker, in his June 11 article for The American Thinker,
said the results from this year’s primary season show that voters are
tiring of identity or special interest politics – especially the
“perversion of representative limited government proposed by the left:”
“Women are, in many ways, more naturally conservative than men.
Bad and dangerous schools, for example, are more likely to arouse
direct action by mothers than by fathers. Pornography, juvenile
promiscuity, and related social issues are at least as troubling to
women as to men.
“The avalanche of abuse thrown at Sarah Palin shows how much
leftists fear strong conservative women. But Palin, like Bachmann and
Brewer, are unperturbed. These women, along with others who will win
office in November, are changing the face of American politics.”
Contact: Catherine Snow
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: October 12, 2010