Karoline Leavitt bothers me...a lot! Like Kelly Ann Conway and Sara Huckabee Sanders before her, Ms Leavitt uses her pulpit to tear down women at every opportunity. She belittles, insults, and criticizes females daily. All in the service of a man who uses words like "piggy" and "nasty" to describe women who challenge him while bragging about walking in on teenage girls in various stages of undress. Makes me wonder how she and her predecessors look in the mirror every morning.
What I cannot understand is how these women, both Conway and Sanders have daughters, defend their words to the women in their lives. Putting the politics aside and focusing on the personal attacks, how do you explain to a girlfriend over a glass of wine that in the process of defending your boss, you have to attack other women for doing their job? Questioning another woman's intelligence is your go-to insult that is televised around the world. How do you sit at Thanksgiving dinner with Grandma, who fought to be able to open a bank account and get a credit card without Grandpa's permission, and chat about your job being the spokesperson for a man found libel of sexual abuse? Bet that's weird.
The biggest hypocrisy of all to me is her exploitation of her faith. Again, like her predecessors, Leavitt talks almost daily about her faith being her guide. How being raised Catholic defines who she is and what she believes. That Christianity is her guiding light. Apparently my own Catholic upbringing was totally different than hers. I was taught to help people. To feed the hungry. Shelter those in need. Turn the other cheek. Do unto others...you get the idea. Were her parents, not to mention the priests, reading from a new edition of the Bible? Are there different religious guidelines in New Hampshire than in Nova Scotia? Ones that perhaps say be nasty to others? Or judge everyone? I don't think so.
I believe she knows when she is stretching the truth or telling bald-faced lies. I'm pretty sure she isn't as under the influence as some may think. Karoline Leavitt may just be one smart cookie, who enjoys the world stage and being a headline on a daily basis. If, and that's a big if, she survives long term in this administration, she will have a book deal followed by a nice career on Fox News. Conservative groups will pay her to speak at their conventions, where she will talk about the "good ole days" of MAGA.
Karoline, be more supportive. More uplifting. More empowering. Protect your female colleagues from the misogynistic men in your workplace. In the infamous words of your boss's wife...be better.
Ang
