Today seemed like it was turning into a fine day indeed. I had spent 3 hours with my English Shepherds, actually got the entire backyard mowed and edged, and weeded almost all the garden beds. The kids and I planned a dinner from a vintage cookbook and had rented “Inkheart” Then Sarah Palin resigned as Governor and then *ominous drum roll* my mother called.
She wanted to pick a fight, blame me for the resignaiton (bet none of you suspected my amazing powers of evil persuasion ”Mowhahaha!), and yelled, “Thanks to people like you one more woman has been silenced and forced back into the role of cookie maker.” You see according to my mother I’m a liar, a person who takes glee in the fall of women from powerful positions (seems counter productive considering I am also a woman…a point she said didn’t really matter…) and that I must remember Republicans are never wrong, never mean, never anything bad. Only those of the Democratic party could wear that mantle.
I tried to discuss facts, things like the largest cost to the state of Alaska in regards to ethics charges was ironically the ethics complaint Mrs. Palin made against herself. I also attempted to point out the greater irony was that the ethics complaints that average, yet disgruntled Alaskans made was due to her ethics platform and laws passed. That dog didn’t hunt…not a whit. You see I don’t understand anything and never have, this was a plot against her because she is a woman. My mother’s golden argument was, “It doesn’t matter what a woman does, you support her . It doesn’ matter if she’s incompetent, support her coz she is a woman.” My point was “I want the best person for the job, whether they have a penis, a vagina, both or neither…its the quality of the person not their reproductive organs that determines the calibur of their work, unless their work happens to involve their reproductive organs…like Gov. Sanford.
In the end my mother expressed her dismay, disappointment, and disdain for me…because after all is said and done I’m just a cookie maker, like her vaunted Sarah Palin is now…or so she says.
2 Comments
July 4, 2009 at 6:40 pm
I was expecting a recipe or a diatribe about some new fangled gadget.
So I guess I have only one question, does your Mum have the same Vagina attitude about some one say like
Pelosi? or H. Clinton?
or is it reserved only for the Republican vaginas?
July 4, 2009 at 8:52 pm
All vaginas are good vaginas, be they Republican or Democratic…She despises Pelosi, but supports her because she is a woman…adores Hillary Clinton like a school girl loves Elvis. Don’t fret, recipes and diatribes to follow the holiday.