Sarah Palin is out to get the 1990s. At least that’s what I have to assume from some cultural references she’s trotted out in her new book, America By Heart.
According to excerpts from the book, she’s got it in for Hillary Clinton and fictional newswoman Murphy Brown, two female icons of the 1990s. But why is Palin going all Back to the Future as she’s plotting her 2012 strategy, whatever that may be?
In Sarah Palin’s twenty-first century world, her daughter and single mom Bristol and fictional single mom Juno are rock stars to be put on a conservative pedestal — under age girls who find themselves single and pregnant, but one decides to keep her baby and one goes through with an adoption plan, rather than have abortions. Somehow, they are champions for her conservative version of womanhood.
So what’s up with this tactic? Check out this week’s Speaker of the House column to find out!
Fri, November 26, 2010
Feminism, Moms & Politics, Republicans, Women in Politics