It's always nice when you can you someone's own words against them. This is a beautiful job of unearthing what the NY Times editorial staff wrote over 24 years ago. You've come a long way, baby!
NYT: Why Not A Non-Senator Woman As VP? Sweetness & Light
New York Times Editorial
July 3, 1984, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
On one side, Walter Mondale has been hearing some infuriating demands. If he wants to win in November, feminists are saying, he has to nominate a woman to run with him. Otherwise, as Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for Women, said the other day, ”I don’t know how we can go out to women and say ‘Here’s something to work for.’ ”
...to be shrill is no worse than to be righteous, like the people who insist that the women Vice Presidential candidates so far proposed lack the requisite standing and experience. Why, it is said, none of them is even a senator.
Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President? Surely Ronald Reagan does not subscribe to that maxim. Or where is it written that mere representatives aren’t qualified...
Where is it written that governors and mayors, like Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco, are too local, too provincial?
...Remember the main foreign affairs credential of Georgia’s Governor Carter: He was a member of the Trilateral Commission...
Why shouldn’t a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow? We may even be gradually elevating our standards for choosing Vice Presidential candidates. But that should be done fairly, also. Meanwhile, the indispensable credential for a Woman Who is the same as for a Man Who - one who helps the ticket.
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Not to mention that "Governor" Bill Clinton was just fine with the left not so long ago--had he traveled to anywhere besides England?. The script changes as needed and Orwell would be horrified at how right he was: "We've always been at war with Oceania"
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