Today's Progressive - Meg's A Whore, Sharron's A Bitch, Christine's A Witch

This is frequently labeled a re-emergence of the Year of the Woman as many run for elected office. A nasty little situation has arisen. It is open season on conservative women or Republican women candidates with a national press corps and television personalities freely name calling and verbally torture them. The level of uncivil discourse is at record levels for our modern society. It is not a healthy trend for our country.

The media, dominated by liberal men and some women, doesn't quite know how to handle so many Republican women running for office. Not only that, but many will win their races. Why are they so insecure? Why the nasty condescending attitudes? Is it because we don't think they are the smartest people in the room? Do they simply fear their time is over in the limelight?

Whether it is tv show host Chris Matthews calling Sharron Angle a Nazi as he bemoans that he really doesn't want to or talking head Joy Behar on a morning talk show calling her a bitch and stating she will go to hell or Christine O'Donnell mocked for remarks made in the 1990's on a cable tv show,or Meg Whitman - a successful billionaire business woman called a whore by Jerry Brown's campaign, the result is clear. Liberal women and men are showing they are, in fact, not progressive in thinking or even open-minded to allow for a big tent of their own. Any woman running for office had better not stray off liberal talking points or run as a Republican because she will be mocked, slandered, and verbally brutalized in the media. She will be extreme. She will be dangerous. She will be stupid. She will want to take away all of your freedoms and rights as a U.S. citizen. We are told that time and time again.

From a thoughtful, insightful piece by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, including some biographical bits of her own political life:

Gender-targeted slurs and attacks, such as those slung at Meg Whitman, Sharron Angle, Nikki Haley, and even Hillary Clinton in 2008, are indefensible. No woman who has put herself and her family on the line in pursuit of higher office should expect to endure such insults.

There is no place for disparity and disrespect in politics today. The political process should not punish women or hold them to different standards, but instead be open for them to reach their goals.

Misogyny is alive and well in halls of "progressive" America. So strong is it in the Democratic party that they destroyed Hillary Clinton's shot at the presidency in favor of a bi-racial man with virtually no executive experience and no proven record for anything but running for office. It was all about race for the "progressive" voter. How sad. We see the harm our country has endured.

Hutchison ends with this: After all these years, women are not asking for special treatment – simply equal treatment. Go ahead, ask us the hard questions. Test our effectiveness. Make us earn the right to represent our communities. We are not afraid of hard work, and we relish a good challenge. But, if we’re going to benefit from 100 percent of our nation’s talent, keep it fair.

Say it, sister.