I received an email today from a disaffected Hillary fan who plans to vote for McCain come November.
I am a died-in-the-wool Democrat, but when Obama turned his ass to Hillary and called her “sweetie,” I didn’t know what to do. I thought that I would write Hillary’s name in.
But McCain has given me a choice. While I disagree with most all of their policies (except for the honesty and integrity part), I’m voting for Sarah.
Can you start a women for Sarah group? That I’d like to join and work for!
Really. You cannot overestimate the negative effect that the naked sexism and disrespect shown towards Hillary during this campaign has had on women. I expect to be getting more emails like this as the sexism lands on Sarah Palin as well (and of course, it already has). Witness the comments over at John Cole’s Balloon Juice, a site where the reading comprehension is so great that the commenter who linked me there called me a Hillary voter. (Shyeah.)
She looks like a stripper in teachers garb. I keep expecting her to rip off her glasses and grab a pole.
And then there’s this charmer:
r€nato Says:
this pick just REEKS of desperation. I can’t wait to see Biden wipe the floor with her in the Veep debates.
And yes it is creepy to see old man McCain standing next to a cute chick 30 years his junior.
Even creepier when you remember that McCain’s second wife, Cindy Hensley McCain, is 18 years his junior.
I think the Obama campaign should definitely consider pushing an undercover ‘McCain digs chicks young enough to be his daughter’ meme.
I mean, great for the old guy that he can get young chicks… everyone else pretty much thinks it’s creepy.
Or this.
AkaDad Says:
When I think of Palin, I’m thinking “Drill Here Drill Now.â€
You stay classy, progressive Democrats. And try to wonder why women are unhappy with your party these days.
You know, I always hated Cole’s site. This garbage reminds me why.
Sarah Palin’s involvement in the Alaska “Troopergate” scandal raises questions about her judgement, and thus about McCain’s judgement in picking her. Granted the Alaska Troopergate affair may be to a certain extent about inexperience rather than corruption, it still has a bad oder. Republicans who can smell a bad oder anomg democrats from a mile off, are strangely unable to smell it among their own. John McCain, by the Palin pick, reveals himself to be the adventurer he really is.
After all the posturing and BS this race is still a statistical dead heat.
Once again the vote will come down to a few hundred thousand voters, and I feel the hate created between Obama and Clinton supporters will turn out to be to deciding factor.
As a Libertarian I have to real person to vote for. Yeah I could vote for whom my “party” has running…
I could also just stay home and accomplish the same thing.
So I have to choose between the lesser of two evils, AGAIN.
Since I could NEVER vote for a Socialist it seems I’ll have to vote for Mccain. A person I voted AGAINST the last time his pasty face tried running…
George Washington was right, the two party system WILL destroy this country.
Troopergate simply—isn’t.
Sounds like a legitimate case for being fired, if you ask me.
Does it really make sense to determine which candidate to support based on what you think of his or her other supporters?
I’m not saying it should be completely ignored, mind you. But Obama and McCain each have supporters who aren’t to my liking.
To me, the Palin nomination isn’t about gender. It says to me that McCain is making his candidacy not about the economy, nor about having a qualified and experienced Commander in Chief. McCain is running on being anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, pro-Second Amendent, and open to the teaching of Creationism in public schools. That is the only way that I can make sense of his choice of Palin.
Oh, yeah, I guess he is also trying to re-establish his maverick reputation. But I don’t think that Palin can overcome McCain’s new embrace of the Bush tax cuts, torture, etc.
Yes, it absolutely make sense, if the supporters are, say, rabid Israel-haters. Or 9/11 Troofers.
The company you keep speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. And while no one is responsible for all of his/her supporters, still, if the David Duke contingent is supporting someone (for real, not because they want Obama to cause their not-gonna-happen race war), then that’s something to be wary about.
To say the Palin nomination isn’t about gender is extremely naive. She wouldn’t have been chosen if she’d been a man with the same resume.
Cole has actually told his commenter’s to cut it out with both the misogyny and the baby stuff. He just has an open comments policy and basically lets everything through.
Also, one of the most obviously sexist site names now up on the web is by a Palin supporter. I won’t give the site cause it would probably anger Meryl.
Also, do not forget that this pick could upset non-Evangelical, died-in-the-wool Republicans because they trusted McCain to go for qualified over everything else. There is also anecdotal evidence as good as yours that they will either stay home or vote for Obama.
The problem with Troopergate even if he should have been fired is that it continues a pattern started when she was mayor. It speaks to cronyism over results and abuse of power, two of the big issues some folks have with the current administration.
That is what worries me, along with the creationism, staunch opposition to Roe, bad economic policy as an executive (see the problems with the stadium in the town she was mayor), her opposition to environmental issues and her ties to the oil industry.
Sarah has the common touch. None of the insults will work. The fools who dis her will only destroy themselves with the voters.
“Also, do not forget that this pick could upset non-Evangelical, died-in-the-wool Republicans because they trusted McCain to go for qualified over everything else. There is also anecdotal evidence as good as yours that they will either stay home or vote for Obama.”
… who is no more qualified than Palin? Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. By the way, that’s “dyed” in the wool, not “died”. It’s Obama voters in Chicago who cast ballots from the grave.
Jeff, the fact that Cole told his commenters to stop it doesn’t mean that the comments aren’t sexist and misogynist. It just means that Cole isn’t. There are many other things I can’t stand about his site, though.
Evangelicals for Obama? Don’t make me laugh. They will either vote McCain or not at all. They won’t vote for a liberal.
Jeff, name the site. I would never pretend that there aren’t as many sexists and misogynists in the red states as the blue states. It’s a fallacy on both sides to think that they are pristine and the other is full of bad guys.
I have seen sexism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and gay-bashing on every single unmoderated (and some moderated) blog I’ve read. A simple joke post by me, complimenting another blogger that I really liked, caused an outpouring of some pretty nasty sexist commments by his conservative commenters (who were too dense to get the joke).
Don’t think I’m only accusing liberals of sexism. It’s everywhere. But when progressives do it, gee, the hypocrisy rises pretty high to the sky.
THE BALLAD OF SARAH PALIN
(Sung to the tune of Davy Crockett)
Born in the northern part of Idaho,
Destined for fame, she just didn’t know.
Learned to hunt and fish, even in the snow,
Never was one to just go with the flow
Sarah, Sarah Palin,
lady from “The Last Frontier.â€
Moved to the North before she was one,
Landed in the “Land of the Midnight Sun.â€
Beautiful and strong, she likes to have fun,
She always works hard, but her work is never done.
Sarah, Sarah Palin,
lady from “The Last Frontier.â€
With her five kids and a man named Todd,
They carved out a life eatin’ moose and cod.
Alaska had some waste and a lot of fraud,
So she went to work and laid down her fishin’ rod.
Sarah, Sarah Palin,
lady from “The Last Frontier.â€
http://palinforamerica.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOF4cq6qNc
“Jeff, name the site.”
I’m guessing he’s talkin about http://www.vpilf.com/
Well, that’s a disgusting site name.
Told you there are sexists on both sides of the aisle.
Just glad I did not have to write it.
i won’t vote for her…
she’s just a cheerleader for McCain, not a real Vice Presidential Candidate…
You’re right Niki.Perceptive of you to note that a man patriotic enough not to leave a NV prison when he’d have to leave his fellow prisoners behind has sunk to such depths in selling out his country.
And don’t forget she wouldn’t have been elected governor of Alaska if peoiple hadn’t felt sorry for her after her husband had the affair with the Eskimo intern.