Why does McCain Hate American Women?
An intolerable amount of misogyny has been evident in some of the electorate and in the media coverage of the Clinton campaign. Yet the most egregious example of women-hating was just institutionalized as a new legacy of the Roberts’ Court, and it gained the subsequent approval of John McCain.
You’d think he’d show more gratitude, considering all that women have done and continue to do for him. But he’s unlikely to see his wife and daughters stand up to his recent choice to endorse unequal pay for the majority of the nation, as it’s unlikely to have any impact on silver-spoon heiresses.
This fits a longstanding pattern of McCain on matters of human rights. It took him seventeen years to recognize his error voting against honoring Martin Luther King, and many years to admit his error in opposing sanctions that helped end South African apartheid. He’s now talking up how he would have spared New Orleans from the ignorance-based governmental response to Hurricane Katrina though in the past three years, he’s voted against several relief measures for its victims.
Just as the controversial Reverend Wright was commended for his military service, McCain deserves recognition for being a one-time hero. It’s become clear since that he’s quick to defend his own honor with a hairtrigger fuse, but he lacks the capacity to defend the honor of women subjected to economic discrimination. He’s effectively signalled to every employer in the country that they’re free to exploit women with lower pay for equal work, should a McCain administration result from next November’s election.
The largest demographic majority in this country are women and all 155+ million of them should remember the cowardly way he abandoned them last week, before they punch their ballots. Even though he’ll likely reverse his stance when he runs for Senate re-election, at the moment, he should be heralded as the one time hero who has continually fallen short of real leadership above his own paygrade of 35 years ago.
