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Women Urge Sandra Fluke To Run For Office


If you’re a woman who wants to hold a political seat someday, don’t waste your time dabbling into local government or community projects. Testify before Congress and pray that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh will call you a “slut” or a “prostitute,” and get people to notice you. Apparently being qualified isn’t enough to get women to noticed anymore.

Now that the dust has settled from her heavily reported spat with Limbaugh, Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke is back to her routine again and talking about political matters that don’t pertain to the right-wing pundit. During a Tuesday appearance on Capitol Hill for a forum on “Opportunities and Challenges for a New Generation of Women,” Fluke said several women have suggested she seek office at some point, adding that it’s certainly a possibility:

“Numerous American women have actually written to me in the last few weeks saying that I should run for office, and maybe someday I will.”

By “the last few weeks,” she means in the immediate aftermath of the Limbaugh duel, and it must be said that some of these supporters probably just want her to run for office because of the highly publicized fight that ended with her as the heroine and Limbaugh as the anti-Christ. No matter your thoughts on either person, the reality is that Fluke is qualified to pursue a political position regardless of what transpired between her and Limbaugh — she was before this controversy struck. The 30-year-old law student is a a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown, which just so happens to be located in the center of the political world. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from Cornell, Fluke spent five years at a non-profit. She’s a well-known activist on her campus and has the proper credentials for someone considering a political role, so people have to keep all of this in mind rather than say she belongs in office because of the feud she had with Limbaugh.

[Daily Caller]

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  • Anonymous

    Her skin is WAY too thin. 

    “There should be a litmus test that they be pro-women so our votes have to include that requirement at least,” Fluke said. “And it should be a litmus test that applies to male candidates as well.”

    To Ms Flake, being pro-woman means unlimited abortions, and that you agree a woman’s birth control should be paid for and if you want a sex change operation, the American taxpayer should pony up.  Bring it, Ms. Flake!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    It wasn’t her who has thin skin it was Rush who has thin skin.  It seems like she has very thick skin for taking a stand.  

  • Anonymous

    Fluke displays her disgusting arrogance by calling for a litmus test for politicians, as if she were the sole arbiter of who is “pro-woman!”

  • Anonymous

    Liberal woman think that if you don’t share their “values”, you forfeit the right to be defended.   It’s their way or the highway.  They are the arbiters of what rights of woman need to be defended and if it’s not on their list, they couldn’t care less about you.  Don’t speak for me, Ms. Flake!

    Great article on the joke that is Ms. Flake today”

    THE VAGINA DIATRIBES

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  • TXranger55

    She is a moron, that has been duped into being a poster child for the left, for an issue that has been made up, or twisted into something it isn’t.

  • Anonymous

    She is a media creation that that hit the ‘one hit wonder’ style jackpot. In the end, she really doesn’t appear to be that bright.  Oh wait…why should that stop her?

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    The article is strange. Sandra Fluke is about to graduate from law school after having worked as an activist. If a law degree and work experience don’t “qualify” a person for Congress, then a majority of Congresspeople wouldn’t even be there now!

     With her calm demeanor and simply eloquent expression of her position — in front of members of Congress– Ms. Fluke appears to be an excellent candidate for political office.  Ms. Fluke’s father is a minister — perhaps her faith helps explain her steadiness and continued eloquence in spite of the maelstrom! 

       Goooooo, Ms. Fluke!  I’d vote for you if I could!  Btw, some of our greatest Presidents on BOTH sides have been lawyers.  From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln to President Barack Obama himself!  So what is the article writer’s “complaint” again?

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    Ms. Fluke’s father is a minister and Ms. Fluke herself advocated for women with serious medical conditions who had been prescribed birth control pills to inhibit ovarian cyst growth and the like.

      She also advocated on behalf of her peers who are MARRIED Law Students. Btw, Ms. Fluke and those peers had already PAID for their insurance which covered birth control pills for the inhibition of ovarian cyst growth and other conditions.

     The problem was that some administrators took it upon themselves to stand between the women and their doctors and “doubt” what the women needed the pills for!!  A dangerous situation indeed. 

     One of the young women Ms. Fluke testified about LOST an OVARY because of that kind of administrative runaround! That young woman had suffered excruciating pain and had wound up in the emergeny room during Law School EXAM week! Ms. Fluke,  I’d vote for you in a heartbeat.  As would all thinking, caring people. Your parents, as President Obama says, must be proud of you!

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    She can apply her litmus test just like you can apply yours.  And anyone who watched what transpired that day in Congress knows that it was NOT the simply eloquent Ms. Fluke who was “arrogant!”  It was the Republican Congressman who turned her, the ONLY woman set to testify about issues that would affect mostly WOMEN away, who was the “arrogant” one.

      Congressman Issa actually contentedly sat there like an IDIOT listening to JUST men on that panel discuss something that is crucial to women (particularly young women)! Raising my eyes (exasperatedly) toward heaven!

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    Ms. Fluke is a simply eloquent lady, whom I suspect learned to be such an effective speaker from her father, a minister.  And it is beyond strange that you would fault people like Ms. Fluke for “not defending others’ viewpoints,” when the entire WORLD saw that Republican Congressman, Issa, turn HER away from that panel effectively keeping HER from speaking!  And she would have been the ONLY woman on a panel of MEN discussing issues CRUCIAL to women! Shaking my head.

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    Precisely, Tyler. Rush Limbaugh is a big crybaby, who apparently will do a lot more crying when Mike Huckabee gets his own radio show and even MORE advertisers flee Rush’s!

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    Txranger55, didn’t you get the memo? Rash Limpbrain LIED to you.  What ELSE has he lied to you about. Ms. Fluke’s father, a minister, did not raise a fool.  Ms. Fluke is about to graduate from a prestigious law school.  She knows her OWN mind.

     Nobody told Republican Congressman Issa to turn her away from that ALL-MALE panel preparing to discuss issues crucial to WOMEN!  Nobody told Rush Limbaugh to LIE about EVERYTHING in her testimony or to SLANDER her!  This firestorm is of REPUBLICANS’ OWN MAKING!  Deal with it!

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t like the panel the DEMS chose, then take it up with them.  They waited until the last possible minute to spring her and she was deemed unqualified to speak.  Let’s stop spreading this lie that the Repubs shut her down.  It was the DEMs fault. 

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    Ms. Fluke is clearly a bright young lady about to graduate from a prestigious law school. And she is simply eloquent — understated, yet effective — perhaps a gift she learned from her father, a minister. I wish her well in whatever career she decides to pursue!

  • Kaitlyn Marshbanks

    That’s because it never OCCURRED to anyone that Republican Issa and company would be so obtuse as to scarf down JUST the input of an all-MALE panel about something that could determine the FATE of WOMEN!  Jeepers! If ANYTHING, there should have been MORE women than men discussing that! And Repubs DID “shut her down,” which is why DEMOCRATIC Congresspeople LET HER SPEAK to THEM!!

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