Jul 212010
H/T QuincyNews.org:
Today is a good day for Illinois and good, hard-working conservatives! The decision by the Will County election board to kick Cedra Crenshaw off the ballot for the Illinois Senate race in the 43th District has been reversed!
You can read the entire judgement in favor of Cedra here.
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Good for you, Cedra!!! Now unseat your opponent!!!
A hard working conservative would be at home taking care of her two sons and her husband.
Cedra HAS been a stay-at-home mom recently, if that has anything to do with whether she should be elected.
It’s interesting that you would make that comment. Maybe I’m reading more into it than you really intended, but I heard two things:
1) It sounds like you look down on women who choose to stay at home and raise their families. It also sounds like you don’t feel that stay-at-home moms and wives should get the same respect as men and women who work outside the home. I may be wrong on that, since there ARE die-hard Democrat traditional families out there with stay-at-home moms. Maybe you’re one of them. However, many liberals don’t put much importance on the family. Feminism denigrates stay-at-home moms, and socialism teaches that the government should be able to intrude in family life. Both feminism and socialism are deeply ingrained in today’s Democratic Party.
2) Because of #1, you’ve developed a mis-conception of what makes one a conservative. Just like there can be Democrat traditional families, there can be conservative women who choose to work outside the home. Just as it’s impossible to make all Democrats fit into a specific mold, it’s impossible to make all conservatives do the same. The current surge in conservative groups across the country are focused on limited government, lower taxes, and adherence to our Constitution, but issues like whether women should have careers are left up to them.
In Cedra’s case, although I do not know her personally, it sounds like she worked as an accountant, and recently switched to being a stay-at-home mom. Most likely, based on her comments about paying mortgages and such, she needed to work to help pay the bills early on. As years progressed, I would guess that their finances improved to the point where she was able to stop working outside the home.
Now she’s decided that her district and her state, and even her country have fallen so far that she feels she can no longer stand idly by. Maybe she feels that it’s important for her to try and make sure there is something left for her kids when they get older? Maybe she wants to make sure they have a chance for success when they grow up?
You are quick to judge one? Traditional family certainly has changed over the years. So traditional is that 1950s when I was born or is that today? I just wanted to see what youi would say. She probably will be a good person for the job. If the voters see her as someone that can do the job she will win. Basically all political compaigns are horse and pony shows.
I wish her luck.
Will I tend to lean to the left I do have some traditional values.
I said what I thought about your comment, and I stated that I may be wrong about that opinion. After all, we don’t know each other.
As for traditional family…. I suspect that most people would interpret that to mean a family with a mother who is a woman, a father who is a man, married to each other, living in the same house, possibly with children that they are responsible for living there as well. Some would use the term nuclear family. I don’t think that concept has changed over time.
In your mind it was not changed but families have changed. Is it good I don;t know but that term has been changing and will continue to change.
Okay, I’ll bite. How has the concept of traditional (or nuclear) family changed?