These cocktail elitists get made fun of when the next NASCAR race is on TV and their cocktail buds come up to them. It would be easy to throw them overboard, so as to maintain beltway media relationships. But I tell you: We've got to go get the
Walmart voter. When I look out at you in this audience, I don't see a Walmart voter. And I don't see a black, and I don't see a woman, and I don't see a Hispanic. I see human beings who happen to be the luckiest people on earth: you are Americans.
Source: Speech to 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference
, Feb 28, 2009
Abolish P.C. speech codes at colleges
Political Correctness, PC, is literally the law of the land on many campuses. And its theoreticians and top practitioners are bestowed with the highest honors and endowed with great authority. If there was any stigma attached to the politically selective
enforcement of speech codes in the universities, Donna Shalala could never have been confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. What was her claim to fame before landing a job overseeing a $590 billion agency?
She was a champion of
multiculturalism as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She supported a rigid code limiting “hateful” speech, but it was so repressive that it was even struck down by the courts as a violation of the First Amendment.
Some called her “the queen of political correctness”-and those were her admirers. Such speech codes should be abolished. Limiting free speech in this manner is antithetical to the idea of America.
N.O.W. supports liberal feminists, not women in general
[Following the Anita Hill hearings], several senators agreed that there should be more women in the Senate. Paul Simon clucked about the inequity. So did Bill Bradley. Well, guess what? Both of those senators defeated women in their last elections.
Why don’t they give up their seats to [their opponents] Christine Todd Whitman and Lynn Martin?
The reason is that they were Republican women. It’s not women that the feminists want in the Senate. It’s liberal feminists they want.
The women’s groups supported Bradley and Simon for election, not their female opponents.
I make no apologies for taking issue with those in the forefront of the feminist movement, such as the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Those in the leadership of the movement do not speak for anything close to the majority of women. “Their” interests are not the interests of the American female, but rather the political agenda of the feminist leadership, which is decidedly leftist.
Feminism is one of those issues which has established itself in the political correctness hall of fame. As such, it is not fashionable to take issue with or poke fun at the philosophy which underlies the movement. Those who have the courage to do so are
quickly impugned as women-haters, bigots, chauvinists, sexists, and a host of other epithets. Name-calling becomes a substitute for meaningful debate of the issues.
I believe feminism started out as a genuine and sincere effort to improve conditions.
The original concerns of feminists, such as equal pay for equal work, were laudable and justifiable. Then gradually there was a shift in their approach and in the type of women who were attracted to groups like N.O.W. The profile of a NOW woman came to
be that of a loud, militant person whose views were based on the belief that women no longer needed men.
It degenerated to the point that men would wonder if they should open a car door for women. Chivalry had become synonymous with male chauvinism.
One of my fabulous routines concerns a San Francisco men’s club which lost its battle to exclude women from membership. The courts ruled that they had to admit women on the basis that businesswomen were being unfairly denied opportunities to do business.
This is specious. How much business did women think they were going to get as a result of forcing their way in?
Anyway, after one year, the female members demanded their own exercise room. They were probably tired of being ogled by a bunch of
slobbering men while they pumped iron in leotards and spandex. The men offered to install the first three exercise machines in the women’s new workout room. The ladies were thrilled. When they arrived on that first exciting day they found, to their
stunned amazement, a washing machine, an ironing board, and a vacuum cleaner. Heh, heh, heh.
Let me leave you with a thought that honestly summarizes my sentiments: I love the women’s movement. especially when I am walking behind it.
