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| Marybeth Hicks |
Ms. Mitchell demonstrated something I have long suspected: her accumulated knowledge about suburban moms would fit on the head of a pin.
Forgive a blunt observation when I say that merely having a female anatomy does not make you an expert on the opinions of other women. I think I speak for millions of women across America when I say we are sick of other women speaking for us!
Ms. Mitchell is neither a suburban resident nor a mom, and she's certainly not a coupon clipper. In fact, her well-established liberal bon a fides render her analysis of women voters meaningless anyway. Yet she's able to stand in front of a camera and pronounce the likely response of her gender, simply because she can wear a skirt to work that is not a kilt.
Women like Ms. Mitchell are working hard to keep alive the bogus "war on women" meme, in which American females, presumably obsessed with having lots and lots of sex, are under attack by old, white, men (and the Catholic church) intent on taking away their birth control.
It's a notion so ridiculous (and by the way, so insulting to all women) that it feels absurd to even type that sentence.
In reality, suburban moms and women generally care most about the same thing that concerns suburban dads and men: Our pathetic economy and the lack of good jobs for our husbands, our teens and young adult children, and us.
Yes, we're concerned about health care. But feminists would have us believe that we're threatened because college girls must pay for their own birth control pills (as if having premarital sex during college is a civil right). We could not care less.
We're too busy scrounging around our wallets for the $20 needed for sports physicals so our kids can join a team this fall. And to be sure, we care about the $70 we're spending to fill the gas tank in order to drive our sons and daughters to campus in the first place.
Main Stream Media types like Ms. Mitchell may not know much about the real concerns of suburban moms, but they all know this much: Research shows it is so-called "Walmart Moms" who are likely to decide this very close and crucial election.
I'm not talking about "The People of Walmart" – the uneducated, mullet-sporting, NASCAR fans that the left believes them to be – but the college-educated, married, religious, moderate and conservative women who literally shop at Walmart about once a week. (Raise your hand if that's you. Me too!)
"Walmart Moms" are the wives and mothers and grandmothers who are holding their families together, mending clothes that don't really fit, outfitting the kids for school at second hand stores, recycling last year's school supplies, and serving meatless meals not because it's the cool, vegan thing to do, but because the ground beef is not on sale.
Ms. Mitchell's "insights" about us to the contrary, the "women's issue" that matters to suburban moms and women in this election year is our stagnant economy and the uncertain future it is carving out for our children and for us.
The women who could make or break this election will not be pigeonholed into the media's liberal narrative. They're going to take a long, fair look at Paul Ryan and they may just conclude that this is a pick that says Gov. Romney is serious about fixing what is wrong in America.
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Family Events is an outreach of Human Events. Marybeth Hicks is a conservative author and columnist the author of Don’t Let The Kids Drink The Kool-Aid – Confronting The Left’s Assault On Our Families, Faith, And Freedom.’
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