Remember that commercial?
"I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan and never, never let you forget you're a man, cuz I'm a woman.."
I'm positively
fascinated by the reactions of some of my liberal friends who suddenly find it preposterous that a woman can be attractive enough to be a former beauty queen, have a husband, children and a consummate career.
"This woman has five children and attends their soccer games.", said one of my most liberal friends,
"I think the old man has gone senile".
"You've got to stop reading WaPo and get out of Cambridge, and the sooner, the better", I said.
I've had multiple conversations with this same friend over the last several months about the importance of getting somebody on the ticket who frequents a grocery store because the wealthy Republican establishment is a bit out of touch with the realities of the current economic nightmare.
"Who's gonna take care of her children?", she asked.
How come nobody's ever asked this question about Al Gore?
Was Mary's vocation as the Mother of God some kind of injustice to Joseph and the institution of marriage? Christ was aware of the impact of being an Apostle upon a husband and father and He chose them anyway?
It's true, people, both men and women, mothers and fathers take positions that are cumbersome on their schedules. Entrepreneurs, doctors, deacons, lawyers, lay apostolates, politicians, single parents who have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, etc., are not going to have the same kind of provisions of a home-schooled or stay-at-home Mom. Just the same, we can be decent parents and our children can turn out to be productive and decent human beings. When people are called to a vocation, God provides and family and friends pitch in.
With trepidation and reluctance, I would have pulled the lever for John McCain in most circumstances (?Romney or Leiberman,etc.) but I'm really enthused about the prospects of his administration since his appointment of Governor Palin.
Father,
A few rebuttals if I may-
>As you duly note, McCain felt the pressure and acted accordingly with the nomination. Obama would pay us no heed if he were to get into office and policies and appointments would be devastating to the unborn.
>ESR is moot. Women are not contributing their eggs and the number of offenses against the unborn cannot possibly equate to an administration that supports abortion up until the moment of birth and withholding treatment from a survivor of a botched abortion. This position is sociopathic.
>Palin will not attract the most extreme proabort feminists. This appointment will attract people who were uncertain McCain would kowtow to our pressure (he just proved he will enthusiastically. She will attract mainstream Mommies.
>There is no such thing as a "strict calculus" when two candidates take positions offensive to Catholic doctrines. If one candidate was believer in ethnic cleansing,abortion,moral ambiguity, the abolition of God from the public square and education and other communist philosophies and the other candidate supported ESR which is nearly non-existent, voting for the former instead of the latter is a collaboration in such grave societal evils that it defies common sense.
Keeping a lunatic out of office is the only sensible objective Catholics must use in evaluating such options.
Voting for a candidate we know can't possibly win is as senseless as twiddling one's thumbs when a drunk man gets behind the wheel of a car in our presence.