We’ve said it before: This election is all about the women. Sorry guys, but the truth is that women vote more than men, and if you want to win the presidency in America, you need this crucial demographic to get to the promised land.
Polling tells us women care a great deal about a couple of things: safety, education, and the economy. Thus far the Republican National Convention has served up a plethora of women with power and purpose – some well-known and others not so much – who have hit all these notes and then some.
While the left works to undermine the message from bone cancer survivor Natalie Harp, one must wonder who could listen to that speech and not drop a tear? “When I failed the chemotherapies that were on the market, no one wanted me in their clinical trials. They didn’t give me the right to try experimental treatments, Mr. President. You did, and without you, I’d have died waiting for them to be approved,” Harp revealed in an emotional address.
Then there was Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director who aimed a poison pen at a group which has become mainstream in America, despite its purpose to provide abortions. Again, the leftist media comes to the table today to discredit her story. But the damage has been done. Describing “abortion quotas” and graphically recounting a live abortion was heartrending to anyone with a pulse. Johnson did something that television is made for: She took what was mostly abstract to the viewer and personalized it. It was unforgettable.
Hardly the Titanic
Then there was Tiffany Trump. She had been harassed by anti-Trump Twitter bottom-feeders as someone “lifted out of the Dungeon.” Yet another chimed in, “Tiffany Trump speaking at the RNC is like someone on a lifeboat climbing back onto the Titanic.”
Well, didn’t she come to the table to tell these folks a thing or two? Appearing poised, the youngest daughter of the president displayed her intellectual acuity and used a velvet hammer to bludgeon the media who carry the water for the left. “Ask yourselves, why are we prevented from seeing certain information? Why is one viewpoint promoted while others are hidden? The answer is control because division and controversy breed a profit,” she asserted.
So many women took the stage at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium to relate very personal stories that could only serve to inspire others: a dairy farmer describing the effort it took to keep her business afloat, two young female entrepreneurs who just want a chance at a better future, an educator who waxed about the evils of the teachers’ unions, are only a few that come to mind.
Even the politicos came to the party with poignant messages: RNC chair Ronna McDaniel conveyed what a “stay at home mom” could do in becoming the head of a political party. Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi demonstrated that women could go on the offensive and use the truth as a cudgel to steamroll over their opponents.
Factor in Melania
In yet another personal speech, Melania Trump went to bat not merely for her husband but the America she dreamed of becoming part of and loves dearly. The front page of the New York Post thundered, “Give ‘Em Mel” on August 26, following the first lady’s speech of passion. Master of five languages, Mrs. Trump used an uncommon level of grace to tell her story of rags to riches and how the United States was an integral part of that journey. “Growing up as a young child in Slovenia – which was under communist rule at the time,” the first lady said, “I always heard about an amazing place called America, a land that stood for freedom and opportunity. As I grew older, it became my goal to move to the United States …”
It is quite the stretch to paint the president is a xenophobe considering the life story of his wife, Melania. Just as it is beyond credulity to make the case that Republicans and conservatives do not recognize the immense value of promoting the voices of strong women. As the first lady said, “We must make sure that women are heard and that the American dream continues to thrive.”
These messages are reasonable and right – and they must be heard, unfiltered, by the women across this nation before they exercise their hard-fought right to vote on November 3.
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