So, I’ve been trying to write a compelling blog for the past 2 days. Do I write about this new strategy of the Republican’s to hijack “feminism” to be used only as a tool to their own end – to be thrown away like so much garbage after they implement it like a blunt instrument unto the American public?

Do I write about the incredible REAL historic “first” of a woman being nominated by her party to be vice-president of the United States of America?

Do I write about the differences between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin – or rather, try to find even one similarity other than gender?

Do I rail about a candidate who allows her own daughter to exercise choice – (We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby…”  Isn’t decision another word for…”choice”?  I’m just asking.) while aspiring to the second highest office in the land with an agenda to take that right of Choice from every other woman in this country?

But in the end, like any good woman, I decided to use my prerogative and write about them all.

Ladies (and gentlemen), we are going to have A LOT to talk about and a loooong road ahead of us.  As Gloria Steinem said in her recent NY Times Op-ed, “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman.  It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere.  It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that.  It’s about baking a new pie.” 

Well, at WomenCount, and speaking for myself, that is one kitchen I will happily spend the rest of my life in.

Rosemary Camposano