What Does a BEAUTY PATEANT Have to Do With Politics???

I personally think that standing up for a woman's right to free speech is pretty important. Certainly you care about women's rights don't you? We've clearly established that the National Organization for Women, and the many feminist organizations don't give a danm about women's rights, so we needed a strong woman with the guts to speak out on this issue. Either way while pageants themselves aren't typically political, women's rights and the 1st amendment are very political issues.

the only reason palin said anything is because in 4 years she wants to run for presedent so she thinks if she gets on peoples good side now that will help her then but i hate to bust her bubble it's not going to work because a lot of people don't believe a word she says because all she does is lie i seen it way to many times, i think she needs to stop worrying about beauty pageants and start takeing care of her son who she likes to pass off to her daughter all the time.

The irony is that most liberals could care less about beauty pageants. They stopped even watching even Miss America 25 years ago. Pageants are only kept alive by their right wing fans and that's why they are making such a brouhaha over this Miss California thing. Since when is Perez hilton considered a liberal leader? I thought he was a Hollywood gossip columnist.

"Palin said that Miss California Carrie Prejean has been the victim of a "liberal onslaught of malicious attacks" Because she has been. *shrug

Miss California had a right to free speech and she exercised it. Perez Hilton has a right to free speech and he exercises it. The media has a right to publish whatever they consider to be news and they exercise it. The people have a right to condemn whatever media houses don't pander to their beliefs and they exercise that right. The truth of the matter is that Miss California spoke out on a social issue but we are all social beings and each and everyone has a right to comment on social issues, politicians and all. Having said that, let me add that I find it strange that Christians as conservative as Miss California and Sarah Palin did not find it abominable to contest in beauty pageants. The body, which is supposed to be the temple of God, is put on show and human beings, who should be grateful to God for creating that beautiful body, take credit for it. But the conservatives, being true to their hypocritical nature as they have been since the time of the pharisees, will overlook this 'unimportant' point and focus on condemning gay marriage. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be, world without end....

No it shouldn't but they do ask political questions during the contest. Like about gay marraige. Which opens it up to a political debate sense the contest is on TV and the news talks about it. She said what she thought. And everyone has been talking about it. Which opens it up for everyone else to talk about including political figures. Gay rights like it or not is a political matter. I don't think it should be. Why should the rest of us get to vote on and make a political platform off of deciding wether or not a group of people should have the same rights as everyone else? That never made sense to me. But hten people would say that is political opinon on the thing. Personally I think the beauty pagants need to either stop asking political questions or deal with the media blow out from if they do. ANd really when the ask those questions then it is just a matter of the person that is most politically correct wins.

A beauty pageant should not have anything about politics, but when that little creep attacked Miss California because she believed in traditional marriage and was against same-gender marriages, the vicious attacks on the young lady began. Personally Miss California should have been questions on those photos taken when she was a teenager and they were excused, not threatened with being kicked out of the beauty pageant because she did not believe that same gender marriages were right. And even though Sarah Palin may have held different opinions, she sympathized with the vicious attacks the young lady received or Would you rather have Miss California been attacked more and had no one to stick up for her?

What I want to know is what is this bull crap about women's rights? No one violated the woman's right to say what she believed. She had a right to say what she said, she said it, and the guy who was judging for a PRIVATE organization judged as he pleased. Regardless, Palin is playing the victim card. The beauty queen had a right to say what she said, and her critics have a right to criticize. Palin needs thicker skin.

Probably because Sarah Palin can relate to the vicious attacks that the Miss California endured. After all, Sarah Palin was the victim of many vicious attacks before she even said a single word or gave a single speech. I believe that Sarah Palin is merely showing her support for a fellow sufferer of vicious attacks as mentioned by your quote. It became political the moment Perez launched the first personal assault. The media sure didn't help things. I applaud Sarah Palin for supporting Miss California. I think it shows that a disturbing pattern for extremism politics just because they don't happen to like something someone says. Just like this discussion shows a disturbing pattern that you don't like Sarah Palin because you continue to launch attacks for something so NORMAL. People who have been through similar situations often reach out to express support, or offer advice. What is so wrong with Palin offering her support? As for your question, I think it is so hypocritical. You could be asking the same question about Congress. Like doesn't Congress have more important things than to do than throw taxpayer money away at failing car companies or pushing us further into debt?

I think Sarah Palin is totally just stealing every bit of spotlight that she can. And I think they try to ask all kinds of questions to beauty pageant contestants, even if all of them don't make it on TV or to the media, just to get a well-rounded view on the tupe of person a contestant is.

She stated her opinion.What's wrong with that?Just because some gay guy that has a website gets mad,does that mean anything to anyone?I guess some people aren't happy with people telling the truth.

Maybe the better question would be - Why did the liberals attack Prejean so maliciously that Palin felt it necessary to make an official statement in support of Miss California and her Constitutional freedom of speech. After all, it was just a beauty pageant.

I don't think issuing a statement is going to take that much time away from her duties as governor of Alaska.