If Ronald Ragan had prior experience of this
last week, it is seriously questionable whether he would have been the first
chief magistrate of the United States to place a woman on the Supreme Court,
robust feminist though he proved to be.
He was very prescient, wise ...and lucky in
his choice of Sandra Day O'Connor, who is aguably assessed by most as an
unswervingly deliberate and evenhanded jurist, albeit with conservative
leanings.
Within just a few days we have had the
spectacle of a Supreme Court justice (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) repeatedly immersing
herself in the messy name-calling echolalia that weighs down our general
election in 2016. Liberal media conceded Ginsburg "crossed a
line".
I think she left her self vulnerable to
impeachment.
Then, United States' "Top Cop", Loretta Lynch
appeared before a congressional committee charged with overseeing government
operation, and during her dialogue with the congresspersons, Ms. Lunch
REFUSED to answer questions put before her 74 times.
She didn't "take" the Fifth Amendment to
protect against self-incrimination.
She just clammed up---" stonewalled" if you
please.
You can see where I'm going with this. As a
TOTAL believer in women's rights I can trace my pedigree back to a grandmother
who was a suffragette and latter-day "flapper" , who layered me with
indoctrination very early, and who was "involved" herself in social causes when they were infra
dig.
She wore pants and pajamas before the 20's and
probably smoked small cigars.before she cut back to MURAD Turkish
cigarettes. She coulf not understand he concept of being "equal" to a group to which she was already superior.
I married a strong, no-limits woman, the
best parent and mate in history, who would leave all four of us to fend for
ourselves while she ran off to succor a couple or a single soul in dire
straits or durance vile.
By prejudice or by rearing, I do not flee or
fight at the event of a strong or even abrasive woman.
The characteristic that seduces me most is
resilience. As a matter of fact, Justice O'Connor had that in abundance. So did
Margaret Mitchell as a young journalist. And Margaret Chase Smith as a
senator survived fools intact.
Margaret Thatcher, as prime minister of Great
Britain and four-termer Eleanor Roosevelt, though oceans apart politically,
rose above all the scorn and hatred that threatened them, and in terms of the
prize ring, "nobody ever laid a glove on 'em". Indomitable resilience
shone from them.
There is a tendency among many women who get
their fame or notoriety from constant media exposure to play their sex card.
They whine, bark and lie when they are caught or cornered. Men who call attention to
these defensive foibles are damned as sexist bigots. That's the nature of the
lazy, sloppy media in the 21st century. The source of most of the unrest and
disquietude engulfing us is due to the illiterate and incompetent
media-in-a-matrix, never ranging far from prejudging any subject of our discontent, afraid that
they might contradict one another in a twitching moment of honesty.
My idea of responsible women who engage their
brains before they loosen their jaws for words are, in the United States, Sen.
Joni Ernst of Iowa--- and in the United Kingdom, the former
new-broom-sweeps-clean Home Secretary Theresa May who is taking over from David
Cameron as prime minister-- right this minute.
There are many reasons why these two are my
best hope for womankind leadership. I can think of three right off the top of my
head.
1. Neither would pop off with scurrilous
words about their worst political enemy-nightmare. You would find both civil
and firm.
2. Neither would hide information behind
their alleged self-importance. They have both survived merciless grilling and
thrived.
3. Neither of them hate the nation that
has recognized and elevated them to high service.
And for good measure, they both have a
lot to teach us. My prayer is that we attend.
