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Today I want to write about Red State Women- even the ones who don’t live in Red States. One of the saddest things about the Petraeus hearings has been the complete, nasty, partisanship of it all. Discussion about the War is not about reality, or a hopeful resolution. It’s bickering. I find it hard not to be angry with those in my rival political party, every single member.
Perhaps as a hint that I need to grow up and expand my vantage point, Denise just sent me a big list of Conservative and libertarian leaning women bloggers to read. I am very biased about who Republican women might be. I'm a Northeastern liberal; I tend to assume they aren’t in my midst. My time at Harvard (where I am a grad student), ironically enough, is altering this perception. Guess what: there are Republican women around me (even in Massachusetts), and some even care about child care, good health care for all, and a sensible resolution for Iraq.
And then there are the young Republican women online. I have a lot of respect for them. Sometimes I do CNN with Mary Katharine Ham, who blogs at the ultra-conservative Townhall.com. I think Ham is really smart, and she's funny, so that blunts the repugnance of many of her views. And Mary Katharine's colleague Amanda Carpenter has been tearing up the airways, because she's been covering the Petraeus hearings. Like Ham, Amanda is young, glamorous and hot, and funny. She's completely NOT what I expect from a radical Conservative. I'm parochial like that. I tend to assume all young, hot, glamorous and funny women are like me (I also have low self-esteem).
But thanks to Denise, I trawled through the blogs of women who don't share my political views, to learn what they think of the Petraeus hearings, and the events of the past few days. I set out to read these ten or so blogs in hopes that I would find some common ground, and that they would be less polemical, snarky, or preachy than some of their male counterparts (and that includes the lefty DailyKos to righty Hugh Hewitt). And hopefully, much less rude than Michelle Malkin.
Funny…the Conservative bloggers I just read wrote less about Petraeus than about 9/11. Their lefty counterparts- I’d say they wrote more about Petraeus. Echoes Obama's claim that holding the Petraeus hearings on 9/10 and 9/11 only perpetuates the myth that Iraq and 9/11 are related.
Sister Toldjah writes, “Congressional Democrats don’t have the courage of their convictions to say that they think the General is a liar themselves, so they let their far left groups speak for them, thinking that somehow people won’t put two and two together and understand that those groups are working together to undermine the Commander in Chief and General Petraeus.”
Amen, sister!
Lawyer Conservative Princess likes Prada, Malkin, and attacks Dennis Kucinich. Sorry, Kucinich is too easy a mark; that’s not true punditry. Next.
Webutante writes “I believe that the surge is working and we should support our troops in every way possible now. I also believe daily prayer for them and our success in Iraq is a powerful tool for us to employ.” I’m sorry, Webutante, but I can’t agree with you. I do, however, wish peace and safety for your friend’s son, serving in Iraq.
Lorie Byrd doesn’t cover Petraeus, but she does ask us to “Stand by the Mission” and support the Victory Caucus , a petition that states “Iraq is now the central front in the War on Terrorism - not because Americans want it to be but because America's enemies have said so and made it so.” Some would say the war effort in Iraq has made it so, but oh well. I wouldn’t want to be called unpatriotic.
GOP Vixen has a button on her blog boasting: “I heart NeoCons.”
Fred Thompson supporter Blonde Sagacity (who looks hot and blonde on her photo) doesn’t mention Petraeus. But she has an allegorical guest post that states:
"Imagine you grew up with a Bully in your neighborhood. At first he just called you names with an occasional stick or stone thrown in for effect...no big deal. As the years went by he became more aggressive…. You said you had seen enough, vowed to do something...actually called the Bully and threatened to do something ...but did nothing.
Then he started harassing the neighbors...threatening
