Will Women Confront Today's "Legislative Daddy's"?

Hillary is currently the only woman Donald has
not tried to destroy. Is he saving it for later?
Don't republican women have a problem with this?

If resiliency is the TRUE test of mettle that helps us to determine our president, than this is actually more of a coronation then any of us knew.

What we know about American politics has been shaken to the core.  First, by two terms of a Muslim named black president, and currently by the total inability to connect the dots on what will happen tomorrow.

Will Bernie "the Socialist" Sanders really keep rising in the polls as Hillary and Trump remain the most hated and likely candidates to represent their party in a general election?

Trump gets away with being utterly offensive towards key segments of the republican electoral path while Hillary gets beaten and battered for reasons we might take years to ever agree about cause we'll be too busy beating her still.

Will she eventually get the positive impact of all the negative press that she's getting when voters have to stand in a ballot box and decide who can actually handle the rigors of the job, realizing that an adversarial media is among the greatest of all human hurdles?

Sort of.

More accurately, the press is proving themselves to be  one part journalist' and two part predators of sensationalism above substance. Like the way in which they've clung like stink to crap on the story about The Donald who dared to describe another presidential candidates facial features as a reason for her inability to preside.

Did Donald actually say that  Carly Fiorina's mean mug and pursed persona makes her less capable of leading others?

No, but I GUARANTEE you that had Donald declared such a thing about any man, the automatic question that would have followed would have been:

"Do you feel that his facial features will hinder his ability as a president"

That question never came. During the interview or in post interview analysis of what he said or what he meant while trying to clean it up.

What also didn't happen....again, is the expected drop in poll numbers that would connect the dots between the behavior and the response that says Americans, primarily republican American women, care about electing a misogynistic president.

Did I just call out republican women?

Actually, all women- including my wife and 5 daughters and my momma, and grandma- are unfortunately squarely in my line of sight today because the more and more we really take a true examination of the REAL war on women (and it is a real war, rather you like it or not), some of the combatants are lobbing grenades at themselves from both sides of the battlefield.

Sorry ladies.  I say this with all of the due respect and humility that a male feminist represents.  The mere notion is an oxymoron and nearly moronic if you think about it.  How can the slave master pretend to be interested in ending slavery while benefiting from free labor and idly watching the systematic brutality that insures the future of the program?

Our women are victims of men. They are victims of our inability to understand their core motivations.  Where men failed to fulfill the role of leader/provider, women have done what was necessary.  Changing your duties doesn't necessarily change your core motivations but it will expand your capacity to do what otherwise had been expected of others.

Is it proper for women to be in leadership roles?

Is Nina Turner too passionate for her own good, or is she willing
to sacrifice anything and everything for the cause of  justice?

I grew up around churches that didn't know if women could be trusted to preach (so they took over testimony service, which is now mostly gone as a result), or be trusted in pant suits similar to the style a man commonly prefers.

Today, we still don't trust women to be smart enough about their own reproductive choices.  "What makes them think we need legislative daddy's to tell us what to do. We are grown 'A' women" said former state Senator Nina Turner of Ohio on Saturday's (9-12-15) MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry Show.

In her always passionate refrain, Turner added, "If your hair is on fire, make like your hair is on fire" responding to the tacit response that women often choose to avoid the risk of agitating the fearful masses and risking their own existence.

Her words inspired me to wonder why I always run to the television when Nina Turner speaks, but don't necessarily feel the same heat from other women who undoubtedly feel the same burn Turner has.

To be Square and fair, black folks do this towards black folks and every group of challenged individuals picks sides in the struggle to either embrace or reject their plight.

Not just black on black crime, I'm talking black on black criticism, or white looking Mexicans who denigrate those who cruise and low ride during Cinco De Mayo.  

I listened to an interview with Dr. Damon Tweedy, a black doctor who recently describe how one elderly black patient rejected him as a doctor feeling that the hospital had passed the inferior black doctor upon an unwitting black patient. (NPR interview)

Self hatred examples are ample, but y'all women really need to do some reckoning.  Not because you are the sole cause of the problem, but because you are the focus of the change. Men can Lean In, but we have to bend our posture towards the cause of happiness for the women in our world and in our lives.

We know that our drunk and disgruntled daddy can do a lot to help cure the damage of our childhoods that we carry into our adult lives, but the real work is personal.  Sometimes drunk daddy isn't ready to help you in the healing. Yet heal you must.

Women must heal themselves from misogyny by addressing the misogyny that they do to each other, as we've long since realized that women mostly dress up for each other and hardly for us guys.  In kind, women criticize each others dress and hair style while we guys obsess over the hips and curves hiding behind all of the pomp and circumstance of being a woman.

 We've always known that women are notoriously skeptical of other women relative to the issue of rape. When it comes to Bill Cosby, I don't really want to tell you the lack of universal disgust among women, even in my house.

Donald can get away with being an ass because he knows what we all need to come to grips with.  Women are as tough on women as anybody.  Maybe worse at times.

Had Hillary's assistant been Anthony Weiner and  Weiner's wife was caught sending naked pictures on a phone, goofy looking Weiner would be a hero of sorts, especially if the nude woman involved was his rather attractive wife Huma Abedin, whose nude photos would only draw criticism from other women judging the size or the amount of firmness in her breast', or the presence of stretch marks if she's had children and/or a weight control issues.

This demand to be beautiful could also be blamed on men, but it loses its impact among wise women who know that men are attracted to ALL types of women, especially confident ones.

Whether she's elected or not, Hillary is going to win in the court of public opinion just because of the perseverance she gaining vis a vis this media butt kicking she's bravely enduring .   She won't get it from The Bern, who is too nice to go there, and Joe Biden is hoping that this email thing will hurt her instead of help her as it ultimately will when it comes time to actually vote for just one of these candidates on either side of the isle.

Americans notice the attacks, but not more than the camera which has a way of focusing itself over and over upon the person who eventually gets the nod.

Is Hillary Struggling With Women Too?

Hillary not only needs to actively court the support of women, she needs to actively court the vote of black women like Michelle Obama, Nina Turner and the 6 that are in my immediate family (all will be voters in #2016).

 While a coalition of black voters can be inspired to get out and vote by the Obama voter turnout machine, who they vote for (especially in the primary races) could be a mixed bag without some necessary female guidance.  

Some aspects of that guidance will need to softly inspire that segment of society that only a soft spoken black woman can push into action. Other parts will need to go Nina Turner all over this nation to inspire those people who only listen when passionate, trustworthy black women like Nina Turner challenge you with her vision and values.  Does that represent a form of my own male self hatred?  I won't pretend not to be more cautious around a smooth talking man versus a loud but loving lady.

Does Hillary need a "blacker" woman to lead her cause?

With rugged women, you may not always like what you see but you always trust that it is real.  That is the power of what it means to be a woman, and nobody seems to harness and utilize this power better than black women. Hillary needs a couple of strong voice, dark skinned (no offense Karen Finney. we insiders know you are black) black women to get out in front for her for the sake of both the female vote and the black vote, key reasons for 8 years of Obama.

Women must harness the breadth of their power for more than just silent control of unsuspecting men. Women can force the hands of justice by simply patting out the fire in each others hair and destroying all of the matchbooks of self hatred that starts many of them.

What does that mean exactly?  Push back at Trump's polling numbers until he lets up on Fiorina, and remind all of the other legislative daddy's that Roe .v. Wade was decided by a lot of smart adults, some of which were women.

Can You Win Any Election Without Women?

Even that cute skinny comedian who did the Fat Shaming video has a reason to join this cause since she will not be young and pretty forever, however, she MIGHT decide to remain a woman since she mentioned that being a man would have made her humor more funny or  more generally accepted. (But you knew you weren't a man going into the satire that you hoped would shamefully inspire people..........huh????)

Women could insure the wage equity that they seek as well, but not without bringing along other disadvantaged people (men) in the process.

Don't assume that I see women as some monolithic conglomerate of voting sameness? Hardly!

Yet, the attack of Carly Fiorina's face is an attack on the entire gender, regardless of political bend. And the cause of gender equality is ONE.

 This was a similar revelation that Dr. Martin Luther King faced when last he marched on earth.  How do we fight for the conditions (via policy) that impact blacks the most without fixing the greater impact on poor people as a whole?

How can ONE woman rise above beauty as a pre-requisite if so many other women tacitly support these trappings of beauty and popularity?

You can't do it, so don't try.

Until She Quits, Kim Davis Is A Paid Civil Servant

"There ought to be enough space for her to act on her conscience and for gay couples to be able to get married." 

That's what Jeb Bush is now saying after previously standing with the crowd of candidates who understand the importance of the rule of law.  Tapping into that vein of Christian conservative angst that wants republican candidates to understand their pain is  pretty predictable . Laws enacted by Supreme Court intervention can produce protest behaviors, and gay marriage seems to have a strong wave of opposition.

As understandable and expected as Kim Davis and other contrary clerks who will do this are, these are also the people we expected to be throwing into jail because of inevitable protest against this new law. 

 Lawyers who make money at these moments have long since positioned themselves for this opportunity and now its time to go to work. Davis' seemed fully equipped with lawyers (hard to say for how long) who knew very well what the judge would be forced to do regarding this case, although they probably anticipated a hefty bail for their sacrificial lamb to help encourage that "Go Fund Me" page and raise major loot from sympathetic supporters.

Feeling a little raped by conservative GoFundMe causes, GoFundMe has altered their policy to counter against such calculated cash raising. Yet, that will only hamper the effort to get rich off of the gay marriage protest, not stop it.  With no bail set and no GoFundMe page for Davis, staying in jail could be her back door to martyrdom that fulfills this protest mission with Davis as its face.

SCOTUS Laws Come When Congress Collapses

It would be so great if this conversation REALLY had something to do with gay marriage, but capitalism is a predictable opportunist and the Supreme Court only cares to direct America when Congress Does Not. Enough on that.

Conservative Governors have long since wondered how much they could test the power of Federal control over state laws.  With the end of pot prohibition in a couple of states, and undocumented workers having sanctuary states, even liberal leaders are testing a Federal willingness to enforce certain laws exactly as they are written on the books.

Whether these pokes at the Constitutions perimeter have created the leaks in law enforcement that makes Kim Davis wonder if she is duty bound to sign marriage licenses for gays is truly a worthy debate too, but not this time.

This time, we have to point the questions and the fingers at each of the presidential candidates that don't have the integrity or the sense to defend the rule of law at least until after they become president like Obama did.

How any member of congress could find the audacity and verve to complain about a Supreme Court decision given their power to define or redefine law is interesting. How any potential president who is expected to uphold the rule of law would equivocate on such an issue is eye blinking.

Go take your judicial branch Quiz (send a copy to Kim Davis)

4. True or false? State courts must follow the holdings of the Supreme Court of the United States. Your answer: True False The correct answer is "True". State courts as well as federal courts must follow the Supreme Court of the United States.

5. A Supreme Court decision that a law is unconstitutional can be invalidated by (Choose two) a. a majority of district and appeals court judges’ rejection of the decision, with a showing of why it was erroneous b. a later decision by the Supreme Court c. a new law enacted by Congress upholding the first law d. an amendment to the Constitution e. a motion by a majority of the justices to rescind the decision f. Kim Davis. Your answer: a b c d e  f The correct answer is "b and d". All federal and state courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions, and Congress may not strike down its decisions. The Supreme Court can overrule its own decision only in a ruling on a new case. Constitutional amendments are rare.

In the absence of any reasonable alternative to support Kim Davis and her decision to disobey the law, many candidates have chosen the kind of politics that you only do when you know you can't win and you never intend to run for president again.

Either Davis must follow the law as Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham and Hillary Clinton and every lucid candidate has declared, or sit in jail until the statement she's making has been made to her satisfaction (ie., rot in hell if you so choose).

Those who are supporting the actions of Mrs. Davis are either way too low in the polls  or way too angry about OPS (other people's sins) for the repercussions to matter much in their calculations.

But they are wrong and waving the white flag on the presidency at the same time.  This matters because this is the same rule of law as women's suffrage was or interracial marriage became which both were once illegal because God didn't used to like women or folks with jungle fever.  Now, God has reduced his list to disliking only gays who want to marry and maybe people who get abortions- rape exception excluded (I think).

I absolutely agree that God's law supersedes man's laws forcing each of us of faith to draw this line at times. I'm still not sure how I even finished high school science with my big bang skepticism.

Whenever principle forces you to challenge Supreme Court decisions, prepare yourself and your principle to sit in jail (or the principals office) for as long as principle remains your key motivation. Long long ago, America chose it necessary to separate Church from State , and the State won that war of hierarchy.

Kim Davis and Kim Davis alone was elected to fulfill a PAID civic duty. Once Kim Davis is tired of the statement she's making in jail, she must either return to sign every marriage license expected of her according to Kentucky law, until her term is over, or go right back to jail. In her new career after civil service, Davis could become an organized protester since she's getting some background in the work and her jail time should provide a little protester street cred.