Volume > Issue > Note List > Put Not Your Trust In Vice Princesses

Put Not Your Trust In Vice Princesses

No one has ever said the NEW OXFORD REVIEW is the Republican Party at prayer. So no one should be surprised by the following commentary.

According to Time magazine (Jan. 15), Lynne Cheney “announced that she will do what no presidential or vice-presidential spouse [i.e., wife] has done before: she will work outside the home. She will get paid for it. And she will not apologize.”

Had Tipper Gore done so, the conservative press and Web sites and talking heads would have been apoplectic: “A break with tradition!” Had the hated Hillary Clinton done so, the right-wing pundits would have had coronaries. But if a conservative gal does it, hey, no problem.

No doubt about it, Lynne is conservative. Time says “she has consistently enraged liberals with her conservative views on feminism, education and political correctness,” and Time quotes her as saying, “I will continue to be a…responsible spokesman and a responsible board member….” Gee, a responsible “spokesman”: The gal knows how to speak standard English. Our hat goes off to her!

Enjoyed reading this?

READ MORE! REGISTER TODAY

SUBSCRIBE

You May Also Enjoy

Eating My Words: From Campus Crusade for Christ to Eastern Orthodoxy

We studied the issues in both Scripture and history and came to the conclusion that the East was correct on both the papacy and the filioque.

Briefly: December 1999

Reviews of Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death... Means to Message: A Treatise on Truth

The Not Quite Good Enough Catholic

There are books one returns to now and again for their sheer badness.