Women Don't Want Your Puppet

While researching for the next blog, I came across an opinion piece in The Seattle Times. “Women don’t want your puppet,” is a clever way of referring to Sarah Palin. Kris Melroe of Seattle, Wash. is a soccer mom that has more experience and is more qualified, in my opinion to be our vice president. Melroe has years of experience as a women’s activist. She has “counseled and assistant woman in getting abortions before and after Roe vs. Wade.” Melroe makes it clear that a woman running is pleasing but is unimpressed with Palin.

“Because the only option afforded me in Gov. Sarah Palin. She is not capable or qualified to lead on the issues that directly affect women’s lives: maintaining woman’s rights to control her own health care, improving employment and education opportunities or lobbying for equal pay.”

Melroe has every right to be weary and disappointed. She compares Palin to great women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Hilary Rodham Clinton. In her opinion piece, Melroe addresses that promoting women’s rights is one of the more important issues. Through such interviews it has become apparent that Palin prefers to tip toe around certain questions and abstains from giving real answers. Melroe continues her rant and claims that Palin, “wants to continue circumventing the constitution by maintaining Vice President Dick Cheney’s trajectory of the VP position as a forth branch of the government.” It is clear that Melroe has done her research to form such opinions and make such comments.

Melroe continues to argue those future generations to come “need more than a quick study and hockey mom to restore our moral and political image of the world stage.” As with many other Americans, Melroe views Palin as a publicity stunt. It is clear to the public that Palin is more of a pretty face than political cannon. Melroe closes her article arguing that “Palin is supposed to appease to women, thereby deflecting any real debate.” More and more people are starting to share this opinion.

Melroe, K. (2008, October 7). Women don’t want your puppet [Opinion]. The Seattle Times. http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/northwestvoices/2008/10/07/presidential_politics.html