"There is a special place in Hell for women who don't support other women"  -Sarah Palin

There are so many things wrong with Sarah Palin making this statement, primarily that it is a misquote of Madeleine Albright's quote:  "There is a special place in Hell for women who don't help other women." But mostly that it came out of Sarah Palin's mouth as a way to get women to vote for her, or else...what, we'll burn in hell?

See the difference?  Nice try anyway, Sarah.

Sarah Palin thinks that American women are dumb. Her attempt at connecting with female voters was pathetic at best, and if we're going to talk about reservations in Hell, well, let's just say she has secured her spot somewhere in the ninth ring.

Sarah Palin is not good for women. It's that simple.  Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a woman rise to the position which she has just been handed, on a silver platter no less, but just because she is a woman doesn't make her the right woman.

Just because she has a uterus and five off-spring doesn't qualify her for my vote. This is where the Republicans and John McCain shot themselves in the big political foot.  By assuming that if they propped up a woman like Palin, so-called average, hockey-mom, that we, women, would somehow follow blindly.  Here's the problem with that logic:  Not all women are average Joe Six-Pack-types, with hand-fulls of children, and conservative views.

Some would dismiss my opinions as envy, since Sarah Palin seemingly has it all and then some, but I am not alone.  Let's set aside her views for a moment and look at the situation.  What would qualify her as Vice-President?  It certainly isn't her intelligence as she has proven time and again; she is nothing but a mouth-piece for the conservative right which is consistently anti-woman.  Her political views are whatever John McCain tells her they ought to be, and even then she can't seem to get it right.

But politics aside, on a personal level, Sarah Palin is offensive to the female gender. This is not a woman I see as an ally or an advocate for change.  Sarah Palin is not interested in women like us, single mothers who struggle with the day to day things. She wants to pander to us with her extreme religious views that oppress women and keep them in perpetual poverty.

Why would I say that, you ask.  Let's just take her stand on female fertility. Sarah Palin doesn't believe a woman should have the right to choose...anything.  She is against teaching sex ed in the schools which would help prevent unwanted teen pregnancy, she against giving a woman a choice, and she doesn't support programs which would help a woman in need, with children, to try to make a better life for herself and her family.

It is common knowledge that Conservatives with their obsession with family values, vilify the single mother as the cause of the disintegration of the traditional nuclear family, and as a drain to the economy, as so many of us are dependant on government programs, right?  So the vicious cycle continues.

Sarah Palin is the worst kind of woman there is. She is a misogynist.  She does not want to help women.  She is a charicature of a working mom, with cartoonish ideas of what feminism means (Sarah,it doesn't mean you have to think and act like a man), and will use her femeninity when it suits her, or when it suits the party she serves.

I want to see a woman in the White House as much as ny other struggling mom who feels misrepresented, but if we elect Sarah Palin, we won't just be misrepresented, we might see ourselves loosing some of the basic rights we need: a right to healthy bodies and healthy lives.

Sarah Palin does not want to help you. Dont' forget that this November 4th.