Can I get an whoop whoop? I am tired, for reals readers! First I stayed up to listen to the speeches for the DNC all week, then I thought Friday I could try to take a break to work on some other writing when BAM! McCain drops a bomb on all of us with the Palin pick. Just as I’m trying to wrap my pretty feminista head around Palin and KA-BOOM! It was all about whether Trig was Sarah or Bristol’s son and then I check my Twitter this morning and Bristol is 5-months pregnant NOW? I need a pundit vacation. But alas, in my devotion to all things politics, I give you the low down on what the GOP and McCain have in store for women and working moms:
First of all the McCain-Palin website does not have a page devoted just to women. Odd considering that women, especially moderate women appear to be the soccer moms of this election…Along with Latinos, blue-collar men, and the Evangelicals. Off to hunt…
Thankfully there is a Women for McCain site that gives us this bit of information:
As a woman and as an American, everything you hold dear — your ability to earn a living, your concern about rising gas and food prices, your family’s health care, your children’s education, and peace in a dangerous world – all are at stake in November.
There is only one candidate who has answers to the most basic concerns facing women voters. John McCain will ensure security and opportunity for American families – health care security, economic security, and security from threats abroad and at home. It takes more than a speech to give answers to American women – it takes a plan and John McCain has one.
But there no concrete plans listed on this site, so we need to go back to the individual issue pages to piece together what McCain has in store for women:
* Supports FMLA, flexible hours, keeping our health benefits when changing jobs, job training, & telecommuting.
* Plans for keeping people in their homes, student loan help, and ending tax breaks for certain economies.
* Controlling health care costs and lowering taxes on small businesses.
* Natural Heritage doubles as the McCain buzzword for environmentalism.
* Human Dignity includes McCain’s belief that Roe v Wade should be overturned, promoting adoption, protecting marriage, stem cell research, and protecting our kids from online predators & porn.
Gotta say that as a space geek, I love that McCain has the space program as an issue for the campaign.
Readers: What are your thoughts so far on this campaign season? Do you feel like you’re in an Aaron Sorkin series? Or maybe a soap opera? And I promise a nice piece on Palin as soon as my head stops spinning.