Who is Really Waging a 'War on Women?'

We've heard quite a bit lately about the "war on women," so, exactly who is waging this "war on women?"

Hillary Rosen, Democratic strategist, spewed the following about Ann Romney for choosing to stay home and raise her five children: "Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. She's never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing." So, which genius in the Democratic Party turned on Hilary Rosen to go after Ann Romney, mother of five and a woman who has battled cancer and multiple sclerosis and from whom we have never heard a complaint?

I don’t think the cliché that “liberals love humanity but hate people” has ever been shown to be truer than in Rosen’s mindless and senseless comments. Thank you, Mizz Rosen!

On a personal note, my wife and I happen to have raised six children and as far as I’m concerned my wife’s part of raising them was more important and more difficult than most other jobs I could think of. In fact, the main reason I went to work was to enable her to do her job which I thought was pretty important and never did I consider her contributions to our marriage and family any less than mine.

So, conservatives and Republicans, we’re told, are in a long-standing "war on women." Right!

On the other hand, liberals and Democrats cannot be made sense of unless they are allowed to have it both ways. What do I mean by that? Witness…

“I guess I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was just to fulfill my profession…” Hillary Clinton said that. Gee, I wonder how much better of a world we could have had if Hillary had stayed home. We’ll never know. Maybe if Hillary hadn’t been so self-absorbed and consumed with her career she could have made a better choice of a husband than the lying, cheating, and womanizing Bill Clinton.

Teresa Heinz-Kerry who made her fortune the old-fashioned way, by marrying it, had this to say about Laura Bush: “Well, you know, I don’t know Laura Bush (then maybe you shouldn’t have said anything, Terry). But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don’t know that she’s ever had a real job—I mean, since she’s been grown up.” Boy, am I glad we were spared Terry Kerry as a First Lady.

So, apparently, staying at home to raise children is not worthy of our consideration as real work. In fact, that’s probably why Katie Couric continued to work a "real job" when her husband died at 42 and left her with two young daughters at ages 6 and 2. Her job of anchoring NBC’s Today Show was apparently important enough for her to continue working through the illness that led to her husband’s death as well as being more important than taking extra time off to be with her two young daughters who must have been devastated by their father’s death (yes, I know because I went through it myself at age 5).

Another proof that raising children is not as important as working outside of the home is seen in CNN’s Campbell Brown, who flew to Las Vegas to moderate a political debate while 8½ months pregnant. In fact, Brown initially stated she was stepping down (in 2007) from her position on the NBC Today Show to devote more time to her family and new baby and the next day jumped ship to CNN where she took on the job of anchoring wall-to-wall CNN election coverage.

How about Soledad O’Brien? She has four children less than 8 years of age; two daughters aged 6 and 7 and twin boys at 4 years of age. Soledad, I understand, keeps quite a rigorous schedule covering the presidential campaigns but has been lauded on Disney’s Family Parenting website as “a modern mom balancing a thriving career as one of America’s top news anchors along with her four children.”

What Couric, Brown and O’Brien achieved as documented above is the norm and to be emulated one would think, right? Can you remember hearing any criticism of them for acting in such a manner? Let me help you answer that: NO!

Given the above, one would think then that liberals would have no problem with a mother of five children being involved in politics.

1. Harold Gutman, Obama 2008 Campaign National Finance Committee member, attacked such a person and criticized her ability to be a good parent while simultaneously having such a high-powered life. Gutman scolded the mother on air for not putting her professional career on hold.
2. Alan Colmes, Fox News host and left-wing blogger, questioned this individual’s commitment to prenatal care for working and traveling late into her pregnancy.
3. Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, raised feminists’ “fears and doubts that this individual should be able to do this, that she should be doing this.”

All this criticism was heaped upon Sarah Palin for doing nothing different than the three other women referenced above. She served as a mayor in, and the governor of, Alaska and ran as John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election.

So, which is it? Is staying home to raise one’s children the right thing to do as Ann Romney was criticized for doing, or is it better to work outside the home as Sarah Palin was criticized for doing?

Are Katie Couric, Campbell Brown and Soledad O’Brien the heroes in our world for leaving small children at home so that they could pursue other interests? Could we not have lived without the biased commentary that Couric, Brown and O’Brien have provided? Would their children not have been better off for it? You can all decide for yourselves.

In conclusion, I would be remiss if I didn’t draw attention to an article published by The Washington Free Beacon on April 11, 2012. That article was titled, “Hostile Workplace: Obama White House Pays Women Less Than Men, Records Show.” You can see it here for yourself.

Suffice it to say that if there’s a “war on women,” the Democrats are leading the charge.