"Just Tell Them...

I have worked 40 years to make the Women's Suffrage platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon."

Susan B. Anthony

Showing posts with label Too Little. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

A Little Too Little, A Lot Too Late: The Belated Call For Recognition of Progressive Women Among the Netroots

Sorry, Ladies. Your presentation was needed two years ago. But the licking of yet another Holy Man's feet kept you mum.

Now.... WHERE did that get us?

Oh, yeah... HERE:


"As the GOP has garnered victories in Massachussetts, Virginia and New Jersey since the 2008 presidential election, progressives are looking for a new path to keep the seats they have and win back the ones they've lost. Standard playbook assumptions about where, how and why progressives can win campaigns have been turned on their head as increasing numbers of voters feel disaffected and Tea Partiers throw wild cards into many races. Progressive women can embrace this moment to help move the progressive agenda forward. But too often the Democratic Party fails to recruit and support the very women candidates who could be game changers for progressive politics."