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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Karin Agness :: Townhall.com Columnist
Hillary Clinton: An Unlikely Uniter
by Karin Agness
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Worse, Clinton mocks women who take their responsibilities as a mother and wife seriously, responding to an interview comment about her outspoken role in the campaign by saying, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.”

Furthermore, Clinton’s campaign continues to claim that Republican women are going to vote for Clinton just because she is a woman. Last fall, Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn predicted that as many as one fourth of Republican women would support Clinton in a general election because she is a woman. Are Republican women not smart enough to choose a candidate based on their policies? This seems to be the implication and one that should further motivate conservative women to campaign against Clinton.

Yes, Clinton has occasionally attempted to soften some of her policies in the past to broader her overall support, as all candidates do in elections. But any observant American knows that the only thing conservative about Clinton is her newfound love for pearls.

In the 1970s and 1980s, conservative and liberal women united to fight pornography, albeit for different reasons. Many religious conservatives argued against pornography because they thought it was sinful and increased sexual immoral behavior, while many noted feminists such as Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon and Robin Morgan argued that pornography was degrading to women and facilitated violence against women. Women of all political stripes spoke out, raising much awareness to the issue.

It is time for a new generation of women on the right and the left to speak out on an important issue. Like their alliance to fight pornography, conservative and liberal women should unite, rejecting Clinton’s attempts to woo our votes based on our shared gender, instead voting for the candidate who shares our policies and respects our intellect. Clinton may not be able to unite the country for her, but she has the power to unite women against her.

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Karin Agness is President of the Network of Enlightened Women.
 
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wow woodstock
let's celebrate knocking down fences and barging into a concert free.
let's celebrate the rain, mud, feces, urine in abundance.
ok, i'll go to hippie rehab tomorrow.

adios (i gotta cry now)
Harvey
Lancaster, Hippyfornia
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Cam
Wow, that's a lot of assumptions you've made there. I never said I'm conservative or said anything to indicate that I "write off" views that differ from my own. I don't recall discussing my television or reading habits. Not once did the word Bush leave my fingertips. It may be that your own thoughts and feelings somehow tainted your reading of my comment.

I merely stated that HC is a self serving, manipulative, liar who's only goal is to reach the White House through any means possible (an opinion many liberal Obama supporters share) and that I wouldn't read her piece of trash book if you paid me. I stand by that opinion. Anything else you think you know about me - you made up in your head.
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