Head of NOW LA Chapter endorses McCain-Palin

Here’s another story where there’s a story within the story.

It is big news, reported by Warren Throckmorten, that Shelly Mandell, the head of the LA Chapter of National Organization of Women has endorsed the McCain ticket.

The real news is that this isn’t in the news. Why isn’t this all over the front page?

Says Throckmorten:

Imagine Jim Dobson or Rick Warren endorsing Barack Obama. Imagine the headlines and news stories which would derive from such an endorsement.

Now imagine a major Democratic operative, who is heads one of the largest chapters of the National Organization for Women endorsing John McCain and Sarah Palin, primarily due to Sarah Palin’s place on the ticket.

Both would be big news, right?

One would think either scenario would be reported widely. However, when Ms. Shelly Mandell endorsed Sarah Palin in Carson CA, on Saturday October 4, it was not reported widely.

Great points!

Mandell says she disagrees with Palin on some issues, probably life, but she believes Palin cares about fairness to women and will shake things up in Washington. Mandell is a former supporter of Hillary Clinton.

This is refreshing as it has become gnawingly obvious that NOW is not now, and hasn’t been for a long time an organization that supports anything that doesn’t mesh with the liberal DNC agenda.

Dr. Bruce pointed out the hypocrisy of NOW on his blog earlier.

NOW no longer seems to care about any women’s issues other than one. Abortion. It no longer matters if you are a successful woman yourself, trying to break through a glass ceiling, whether you promote and exemplify women’s contributions. The litmus test is the position on abortion and it better be pro-abortion.

As Rett Hatcher points out:

NOW says that although Sarah Palin is a woman she does not support women’s rights. I have a hard time believing that Sarah Palin is not for pay equality and is not against violence towards women. So in reality, NOW is only concerned about a candidate being pro-abortion. I say pro-abortion as opposed to pro-choice because if they were really pro-choice then they wouldn’t have a problem with a woman choosing to be pro-life, choosing not to condone sex outside of marriage, and choosing options other than abortion. These are their big issues with Sarah Palin. Here we have a successful, articulate, intelligent mother of five as a vice-presidential candidate but NOW won’t get behind her because she is against letting them kill unborn women (and men).