Two Superwomen and We Didn't Crack Into the Executive Branch!

How is it that we had two amazing candidates like Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin and we still missed the opportunity at the Executive Branch: the Presidency at our easy grasp and the Vice-Presidency as a long shot, respectively. Ladies we need to get a grasp at our reality and embrace our own diversity! There are all types of women: single parents, working women, working mothers, volunteering women, homemakers,and those who do all of the above. We have to support our own female diversity and accept that, especially in America, we have the freedom to educate ourselves, use that education and/or just have the education to apply to the upbringing of the next generation. Women's lives go through seasons and we have a role in the family and in the community that men cannot cover. We are created to be able to handle more, be intuitive, creative, compassionate, empathetic, and yes nurturing caretakers to our children, husbands or our elder parents. Female Diversity - Grasp it , accept it, embrace it, but don't insult our sisters who do or don't do any of the above.

Our second issue that derailed our cohesiveness and continues to do so, I believe, is a red-herring that we have been lead to believe as the litmus test for women issues, when in reality it should no longer be such. The critical issues for women is our Children - their education, their safety at home and in the military, sexual assaults and domestic violence; Health issues - pandemics, chronic illnesses; Economic issues that affect our families - jobs, interest rates, cost of living, financial security, investments. Why are we still stuck on abortion as the litmus test that divides our collective strength?

Can we instead push to educate our children, young women and ourselves to be smart and responsible for our bodies and respect ourselves and respect the fundamentals of intimacy which are love and commitment? Can we teach our girls as our grandparents and parents did to "Say No" or to "Say Stop", as the consequences are many: AIDs, STDs, Pregnancy, not to mention the broken heart, broken spirit, and broken reputation? Can we request or insist partners to use condoms? Can we use abstention, rhythm, basal thermometers, ovulation test kits, the pill, IUDs, etc? Can we promote adoption rather than abortion? Can we focus on the emotional and health issues that surround the complex area of unwanted pregnancy, rather than look to abortion as the solution. If we do not get over this - each time we get close to the Executive Branch this Red-Herring issue will be thrown out there as a fish to distract us into our cat-fight on this issue.

We are smart American women! Let us not have this issue deter us from the so many other issues that we have about how our country is being run and the impact that taxes, economy, political and corporate fraud,foreign policy and defense strategies affect our families. Let us be cohesive and embrace strong women, like Hillary and Palin, who can be political leaders, have a supportive partner, raise children and have the courage and perseverance to impact change that is non-partisan, and just old-fashioned pioneering patriotic! If the main political parties throw you under the bus ladies (as both the democratic and republican party did to both of these amazing and powerful women), then go independent, and sisters lets "crack the ceiling" and "go rougue" by WINNING THE WHITE HOUSE!