How it amazes me that that the educated, urbanized, rhetoric enhanced self-proclaimed feminists still don't get it. Do you still believe that you and your elitists friends are representative of what American women want and aspire to be? That your ideologies and beliefs, nurtured and given birth in those all-important women's studies classes, are what the rest of us women strive to bring forth into the real world? Think again! To many women, feminism has become no more than a mire-encrusted, backward thinking Neanderthal caught in its own rhetoric, reduced to hand-wringing and despairing that its core base has moved on, no longing needing it or approving of its designs for the new world order. I personally am tired of the Clintons and Oprahs of the feminist world, assuming that I as a woman am in constant need of their brilliance and guidance in navigating through this world fraught with injustices, and that their superior intellect will steer us all towards the path of true enlightenment. There is nothing I loath more than condescension, and theirs is in full abundance.

I consider myself a strong, independent woman, surviving and thriving in a man’s world. However, it appears as if the entire feminist platform evolves almost entirely around abortion and a woman’s right to do whatever she wishes with her own body? I myself do not believe in abortion (except in the case of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is threatened). To me, abortion has become the means to allow a woman to shrug off taking responsibility for her own actions and throwing the problem away. Abstinence? Heck no. Birth control? Why bother, when you can just throw the resulting offensive glob of tissue away.

But is this what feminism has become? Abortion and the need to dictate the world order? Than it’s no wonder that you’re scared. It must be frightening to be no longer relevant.

My parents lived in New York City on 1st Avenue just down from the United Nations. I live in a small town (pop: 30,000), but have been to NYC many many times over the years. I just love it when the big-city, so-called intellectual leftist groups look down their noses at the small-town crowds in rural America. Not all of us are closed minded, backward, uneducated, country bumpkins. I for one have two college degrees and work for a highly progressive company. Interesting how Mr. Hoyle picked out those who would (of course) give the answers that just feed into the liberal frenzy that has become Obama. And also interesting that just because so many of us out here "in the sticks" are not enthralled with this empty puppet who has done nothing but pen two autobiographies and visit Europe as a "pretend President", we are considered stupid, uneducated, and in some way, un-American.

I don't like either candidate, and am disgusted and embarrassed with so many of my fellow Americans as well as how this election has gone. Surprisingly enough, though Obama promised early on to stay above the negative fray, he has become one of the most virilent (another one of his about-faces), as have his liberal followers. For a party that is supposed to be all-inclusive, liberal Dems are suddenly closed-minded if you dare to disagree with them.

My advice for the big city liberals: go home and leave us alone.