McCain offers women only old-fashioned ideology

October 24, 8:29 PMDC Corporate Ethics ExaminerJim Cunningham

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The Economists' Policy Group on Women's Issues gives McCain nearly failing grades. (Obama earned a ‘B’.)

This is not surprising from a man who believes health care plans should cover Viagra but not birth control, called his wife a see-you-next-tuesday, and once enthusiastically told a crowd of conservatives a joke implying that a woman might enjoy getting raped by a gorilla.

Obviously, being a Republican, he doesn’t believe adult American women can decide for themselves whether abortion is a medical procedure or something morally reprehensible. Nor would he permit them the freedom to act on their own conclusions. No. These are decisions for old men like him to decide.

You can always tell a person’s heart by the direction they knee-jerk when forced to give an answer before they can think things through. For McCain, his instincts on women’s issues were evidenced when he was asked why women make less than men and what could be done about it. McCain’s instincts told him that, if a woman is making less than a man, than it must because she’s less educated. (For the record, Obama’s knee-jerk was one of outrage and concern for his daughters.)