Angela McGlowan is in!
February 12, 2010
by Kitt
|You may have already read that Angela McGlowan is definitely running for Congress in Mississippi’s first district. 
John Fund, in a Wall Street Journal op ed piece calls McGlowan a “Tea Party Heroine” and gives her an apt description:
The feisty Ms. McGlowan is a force of nature, and a direct challenge to the GOP good ol’ boy network. While not conversant with the details of all issues, she is a fast learner and clearly would have national fundraising ability. She also has a good chance of winning the GOP primary.
He also mentions that:
If elected, Ms. McGlowan would become only the third African American elected as a Republican to the U.S. House in the past 75 years.
Wow! That is a stunning piece of information. Interestingly, he neglects to mention another, even more stunning bit of information. If elected, Angela McGlowan would be the first woman to represent the state of Mississippi in Congress, House or Senate – EVER. In the entire history of the state, a woman has never been elected to Congress. Now THAT is stunning! It also makes this race exciting! If women from around the country make some noise, donate, help and support Angela McGlowan, we could see an historic election in November.
Go Angela!
Heck yeah, I’ll support her. It’s about time Mississippi sent a woman to Congress!
As to her being a conservative woman, she’d be running against a prolife, progun, voted against the Ledbetter act, Democrat.
I already quoted a troubling passage from McGlowan’s book in the other thread about her, but I just came across this one: “The persistent fable that women are denied equal pay for equal work has been a never-ending tank of gas that fuels feminism.”
Is she better than an anti-Ledbetter man? Maybe, but it’s one thing to increase female representation by electing both liberal and conservative women; it’s quite different to achieve the same goal by electing both women who support women’s rights and women who oppose women’s rights. The mainstream left and right may both see no difference between Sarah Palin and Phyllis Schlafly, or between Hillary Clinton and Donna Brazile, but that’s kind of the whole problem with the mainstream left and right.
In terms of Palin, I just ask people to question their beliefs, their predjudices, their stereotypes. The day Gibbs mocked Palin’s hand was the day Blago plead not guilty, Monserrate was suspended from the state senate for slashing up his girl friend’s face, our President gave his famous “corpsemen” speech, and John Edwards proposed to his mistress. Is Palin qualified? Are you kidding me?? Where is this land of perfect human beings she is competing against?
I feel the same about McGlowan. Is she my ideal candidate? Nope, but since when did I ever get to pull the lever and choose between brilliant and spectacular?? If I remember right it’s pretty much always been the lessor of evils.
Always, whenever women come onto the scene, we demand to know their qualifications and does she share my exact same beliefs? What can I find that’s wrong with her? How can I find fault? If she’s ever deemed perfect, experienced, qualified, we simply change the rules. Suddenly we want fresh and new, one of the people, the guy who drives the pick up. His inexperience becomes his charm.
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