He sowed the seeds of his destruction himself many months ago, when he decided to exploit sexism and misogyny in his quest to defeat Hillary. Now John McCain will reap the harvest.
I have long believed the most dangerous thing about this primary was the misogyny, especially aimed at older women, running rampant unchecked by Obama or the Democratic Party. You can’t simply put that back up in its cage now that the nomination is over. That kind of hatred spewed into the culture is bound to affect the culture and change it in ways that are not positive.
Obama may very well want to stop this now, but I’m not sure this monster is still within his control. But then that’s what always happens when you accept help from a monster, it eventually turns on you. What? Obama and the Democrats thought Frankenstein was really about a scientist who built a monster from dead people?
With the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket, Obama almost certainly wishes he could re-bottle the misogyny he uncorked. But it’s too late. Woman-hating is now such a routine aspect of the Obama movement that the true believers can’t help themselves anymore. It simply pours out of them:
“She looks like a porn star.”
“Sarah Palin’s judgment is despicalble. She knowingly whelped a Mongoloid child earlier this year, probably to pander to the Right to Life Nutbags. Irresponsible decisions like hers dilutes the viability of the American Gene Pool. No wonder why we are falling farther and farther behind in an increasingly competitive global economic environment.
Her OB should have cut her tubes after her first child!!!”
“What is this, the Vagina Epilogue?”
“Will McCain have Palin do a Lewinsky on him every day to get his juices flowing?”
“I’d like to retract some of the thoughts of her qualifications that are stirring in my head. Sarah Palin is, likely, qualified to wash my dishes, even moreso to fetch a Big Wheel from my driveway. I was thinking she wasn’t, but those are just exaggerated thoughts.
What a bimbo!”
Obama supporters, all.
Yesterday I wrote that the possums will lose this election for Obama by alienating every woman in America who hasn’t already run screaming from the sexism in the Democratic party. Well, not every woman, but enough. Enough women will either stay home or vote for Sarah Palin (not McCain) to make that nut.
They’ll do so not out of spite and not because they’re irrational. They’ll do so because they will have decided that the critical thing, right here, right now, is not to be bound by some historical allegiance to the party that used to be the home of women’s rights, but to strike a hard blow against the sexism and misogny of today.
Can’t say I blame them.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008, PUMA on August 30, 2008, 11:55 pm EST
This is a ground-shifting, earth-quaking year in American politics, though not in the way any of us expected. I don’t know what will come of the various initiatives popping up here and there, but I know that nothing will ever be the same again.
Just got this in the mail from Murphy of PumaPAC; I reprint it here in its entirety:
August 29, 2008
TO: Puma PAC Members
FROM: Murphy
Subject: Announcement
Hello Puma PAC,
Goodbye Howard Dean. Goodbye Barack Obama. Goodbye Nancy Pelosi. Goodbye Donna Brazile. You have not only lost the White House for the Democratic Party. Today you have brought the Democratic Party to the brink of irrelevancy altogether. John McCain has played you all like a piano.
Today we say GOODBYE to the OLD Democratic Party. The OLD Democratic Party has led us to DISASTER. John McCain and Sarah Palin will win in November by a landslide.
TODAY, August 29th 2008, Puma PAC has started a new political party:
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY
We have a website launching tonight. at www.thenewdemocraticparty.org and www.ndp.org We will be modeled on Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party. We will NOT be running candidates. We WILL be endorsing candidates.
We will be the Party for All Disaffected Democrats who are FINISHED WITH THE OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY. We are NOT Republicans, though millions of us will vote McCain/Palin in November.
Our Platform is the Platform of the TRUE Democratic Party
* Healthcare for All
* Equal Rights
* Reproductive Rights
* Worker Protections
* Envmtl Protections
* Fair Immigration Policy
* Help for working class college students
* Good public schools
WE MUST PREVENT A REPUBLICAN TAKEOVER OF THE ELECTORATE. WE NEED A POLITICAL PARTY FOR ALL THE MILLIONS WHO WANT TO BOLT THE DEMS AFTER TODAY’S FIASCO.
Please JOIN US. We NEED the Platform and Principles of GOOD DEMOCRATIC VALUES now MORE THAN EVER. We MUST STAY UNITED AS A DEMOCRATIC VOTING BLOC OR WE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING.
To Join the New Democratic Party, please send an email with your name and state today to newdemparty@pumapac.org
Listen in tonight to the Lion’s Share on No We Won’t Radio with Sheri Tagg.
Riverdaughter and I will join her to talk about today’s events and where we go from here.
www.blogtalkradio.com/no-we-wont
Thank you and Good Luck,
Murphy
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 29, 2008, 3:00 pm EST
I’ve been telling my mother for a month that McCain would pick a woman.
“Governor Palin of Alaska. I’ll just bet you.” Every time I would say that my mother would just roll her eyes.
I knew it. I knew he would pick Palin.
Goddamn, that old buzzard McCain is not so dumb after all.
EDITED TO ADD: The Palin pick is fricking genius, and since I’m a blogger and this is my blog I should probably take a minute here to blog about it.
Why is it a genius move? Because of two things:
1. It will make it easier for center-right Hillary supporters to vote Republican in the fall, and
2. (this is the genius part) It will complete the alienation of the rest of the Hillary supporters from the Obama camp. How? That’s easy — the Obamabots will do it themselves. Go read the Washington Post blog or anywhere online where the Palin pick is being discussed, and you’ll see the trademark Obama misogyny already out in full force. She’s been on the ticket for two seconds and already the Obamabots are saying she “looks like a porn star,” they’re making rude remarks about her childbearing, they’re ridiculing her intelligence.
Keep it up, possums. Keep it up. Just when some Hillary supporters were trying to forget what misogynist freaks you all are, now you’re going to remind us all over again.
Brilliant fucking move by McCain.
UPDATE: Greetings, Instapundit readers. You probably won’t be here long, as this is a genuinely feminist, leftist blog. But while you’re here I shall do my uttermost to be polite, and I ask the same of you. You are welcome to comment on your reaction to the Sarah Palin pick. As ever on this blog, sexist/misogynist and racist comments are of course verboten. Also, please refrain from attempting to “enlighten” me or my readers about abortion. Thank you.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 29, 2008, 10:56 am EST
Will he show up wearing a toga to match the fake Greco-Roman temple? Will they fly him in from the roof, like that guy in the Opening Ceremony in Beijing? Or maybe the stadium will be transformed into a cathedral of light, à la Albert Speer?
Whatever happens tonight with Senator Obama’s speech, Patsy and Sugar are ready.
Tune in to NQR after the speech for a special late-night edition of Our View with Patsy and Sugar (produced by me, Violet). I cannot wait to hear their take on this whole circus.
We’re planning to start at 11pm, but if the speech runs over, we’ll start the show whenever Obama stops.
P.S. I’m thrilled to announce that “Our View” is going to be a weekly program from now on. Tune in every Thursday night at 9pm ET to hear Patsy and Sugar!
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on August 28, 2008, 9:58 pm EST
And if you don’t have time to slog through the 500-page Caucus Analysis website, here’s another link to that 98-page book version. It’s horrifying stuff. As you listen to Opossum’s speech tonight, just think of all those busloads of people from Illinois arriving to pose as Iowa voters in the caucus…and all those thugs in Texas physically barring Hillary supporters from voting…and all those union fixers in Nevada dropping Hillary ballots in the toilets…
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 28, 2008, 9:40 pm EST
I’m not watching the convention. I can’t stand it. It’s embarrassing. It makes the Politburo under Brezhnev look like a beacon of democracy. It makes China’s National Party Congress look like an anarchists’ convention.
They’re laughing at us in Europe; you realize that. Here’s the Grundian:
…Aaaand we’re back, just in time to note that, pursuant to Section C8 of the Democratic Party Rules and Procedures, Barack Obama just won the convention’s very carefully choreographed roll-call vote, during which the representatives of many state delegations boasted that their state was better than all the others, until finally Hillary Clinton stepped forward to end the voting and award the nomination to Obama by acclamation, and Nancy Pelosi, who was overseeing the ceremonies, asked those who agreed to say “yay,” and those who disagreed to say “nay,” but cleverly left no time at all for anyone to actually say “nay” before declaring that the motion had been passed, making Obama the official Democratic party nominee, and then everyone burst into tears and they played Love Train on the PA system and everyone was very happy, the end.
Incredible. It wasn’t enough to have the usual fake roll-call vote; they had to interrupt it for a fake nomination-by-acclamation. And this after last night’s travesty of forcing the actual winner of the Democratic primaries — Hillary Clinton — to rally the party behind the crook who stole the nomination.
Possums on the scene in Denver are said to be wondering aloud why the convention doesn’t seem to be having an energizing effect on the country. Who in the hell do they think they’re kidding? Every sentient being in America knows that the Democratic Party is divided in half and that Hillary won the popular vote in the primaries. Tricking out the Pepsi Center to look like a Vegas lounge and having Nancy Pelosi lead the delegates in “kumbaya” is not fooling anyone. The only message the DNC is sending the country is, “We are complete and utter phonies.”
I hear they’re building a fake Greek temple in the middle of that stadium for Opossum’s speech tomorrow. Keepin’ it real.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 27, 2008, 11:26 pm EST
My jaw dropped when I read that Obama’s text message announcement went out at 3am - 3am being the name of the Clinton ad that apparently really got under the Possum-in-Chief’s skin. Here he’s supposed to be riding the unity pony into Denver, and what does he do? Flips the bird to 18 million voters. Arrogant, immature, petty - we’ve had enough of that in the White House, thank you very much, we don’t need any more.
The 3am touch was pure possum.
But at least we know now that Obama’s movement will crumble. After all, the possums can’t possibly support Obama with Biden on the ticket, since Biden voted for the Iraq authorization and thus, like Hillary, is personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of Iraqi babies. Biden is also on record as saying that it was a “storybook” that our country should finally have a “clean,” “articulate” African-American running for President, remarks far more racist than anything actually uttered by any Hillary supporter during the primaries. I’m sure the possums will swarm Huffington Post and Daily Kos demanding that Biden be executed.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on August 24, 2008, 12:08 am EST
I’ve been so busy being a PUMA that I’ve had little time to read about PUMAs. Or I should say, read about myself, since in America it’s the media that tells us who and what we are. It’s like Patsy said on the radio the other night: here she is, a Black woman and proud of it, come to find out that because she doesn’t support Obama, she’s a racist. “Guess I better get measured for my hood,” she said.
So the media narrative about PUMAs is of interest, since in good Goebbels fashion it’s bound to be far more important than the actual truth. And the media narrative about PUMAs appears to be unchanged from the media narrative about Hillary supporters during the primaries: we’re all old white racist conservative crypto-Republicans who think Obama is too liberal.
Too liberal? Obama?
As I’ve written many times, my problem with Obama is that he’s not liberal enough. If anybody’s a crypto-Republican, it’s him. The Obama movement combines all the worst elements of Republicanism into one juggernaut package: Rovian cheating, Reaganesque marketing, Bushian pseudo-religious fervor, wingnut propaganda, mindless worship of authority, hatred of women, contempt for the disadvantaged, and of course GOP political positions on everything from FISA to the environment.
The PUMAs I know feel the same. We’re feminists. We’re liberals. We’re a hell of a lot more liberal — truly liberal — than the callow young white men who form Obama’s cheering squad. Those guys are indistinguishable from the Jonah Goldbergs of the world, though they’re too self-infatuated to realize it.
But the PUMA movement — the coalition of Democrats who reject Obama — is broader than just my crowd. It’s true that there are some PUMAs who complain that Obama is “far left,” or who worry aloud that he’s a front for “far left” extremists of some kind. But what do they mean by that?
They don’t mean that he’s too progressive. Obviously he’s not. Every PUMA knows that Obama ran a dirty campaign, that he intends to continue and even expand Bush’s policies for faith-based programs and government spying, that he’s soft on women’s rights, that he endorses the Cheney energy plan. And every PUMA is unhappy about that. Every PUMA wants a Democratic nominee who actually represents Democratic values.
What disturbs those who talk about the “far left” is something completely different: it’s Obama’s connections to people like William Ayers and, tangentially, to Louis Farrakhan — people who are typically labeled “the radical left” or “the far left.”
The problem here is one of nomenclature. The current class of tags we’re working with is insufficient to adequately describe reality.
Consider: the Nation of Islam, an extremely patriarchal organization that preaches female inferiority, is allegedly on the “left.” But so are feminists. So are gay rights activists. So are political atheists. Cramming everyone who resists the White Christian Male hegemony into one category makes no sense. And treating “liberal” or “progressive” as if they’re the weak end of a continuum that culminates in “far left” results in sheer absurdity. By that reckoning, I suppose, if you’re a moderate leftist you might belong to NOW, but if you’re really leftist you’re a prime candidate for the Nation of Islam. If you’re a good liberal you might belong to the Sierra Club, but if you’re really hard-core you probably give money to Hezbollah. Huh?
What we need to do is get behind the labels and understand what people are really saying. Those PUMAs who think Obama is “too far left” aren’t talking about domestic policies. They’re not talking about abortion or gay rights or any of the other issues that typically distinguish Democrats and Republicans. What they’re talking about, I think, is Obama’s connections (whatever those may be) to wild-eyed pistol wavers.
For the record, I don’t share those concerns. I don’t think Obama is a fellow traveler with any terrorist organizations, nor is he a front for extremists (unless you categorize neo-Republican financiers and propagandists as extremists). And the PUMAs who do worry about that stuff are only one subset of the coalition.
What all PUMAs agree on is that the Obama movement represents the abandonment of basic Democratic values. All PUMAs are “progressives” or “liberals” in the sense that they demand a Democratic Party that continues to stand up to the Republican assault on women’s rights, social programs, and the Constitution. They want a Democratic nominee who’s actually a Democrat.
And that’s not Obama.
Maybe this would be a good time to re-post some of what I’ve written over the past months:
P.S. If you don’t have time to read the whole website (which is humongous), here’s a handy a 98-page report that summarizes the key findings and includes a few eyewitness stories from each state. Suitable for printing out and taking with you to Denver…
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 22, 2008, 6:52 pm EST
Hey, everybody. It’s me, your long-lost host and ghost.
I am and have been extremely busy doing extremely secret and important things connected to the convention in Denver. No, really. I have a whole double life thing going here that none of you know about.
But there’s one thing I’ve been working on that isn’t a secret, or at least it won’t be anymore: I’ve started producing radio shows (podcasts, really) for NoQuarter Radio (NQR).
The hosts are Patsy of Soldier4Hillary fame (that’s her picture) and Sugar of Sugar N Spice (no picture — she’s reclusive, like me). Both Patsy and Sugar have been staunch Hillary supporters throughout this election season. For this show they’re teaming up to talk about the difficulties faced by African-American supporters of Senator Clinton and how this whole situation is playing out in the Black community. They’ll be discussing their own experiences and taking calls from listeners. The call-in number is (347) 677-0792.
It’s a livestream podcast, so what you do is go to the NQR link at 9pm and listen to the show on your computer. You may hear my voice a bit as the producer, but I won’t sound like my normal God-like Mopish self because I’m deeply exhausted from the Other Secret Things I’ve been doing. My voice is creaky and weak, like me.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on August 21, 2008, 1:15 pm EST
As a commenter astutely notes, “These uniforms are going to make it very hard to focus on the game, because many players are going to be distracted by thoughts of how they look. And to think, while the men are preparing for their game by stretching, going over their techniques, etc., the women are waxing their bikini lines!”
Exactly. I think that could serve as a pretty damn good working definition of how patriarchy operates: men get to do stuff, women get to worry about their bikini lines.
I recall a study that showed how women’s ability to think clearly and to focus their minds drops dramatically when they’re wearing revealing clothes. The more revealing the clothes, the dumber they get. Test scores plummet, ability to answer questions nose-dives. That’s because they’re so goddamn anxious about how they look and whether their bits are hanging out.
I can attest to that myself; whenever I wore short-shorts or some other such foolishness as a young Sock, I was so flustered I could hardly concentrate. All I could think about was how much of me was showing.
Maybe it’s a good thing I’m not watching the Olympics. I’m insanely swamped with Stuff That Must Be Done, so no Games for me. I did, however, watch the Opening Ceremony, and as soon as I have a chance I shall grace you all with my 10,000 word essay on the subject.
Posted by Violet under Various and Sundry on August 12, 2008, 2:07 am EST
Some time during this past week I saw a blurb somewhere that people on Capitol Hill are starting to wonder if Obama is mentally ill. Wish I could remember where I saw that, but it struck a chord. At first I thought Obama was just deliberately cultivating a “presidential” image to sell himself to the public, but the more I read about him the more I’m really starting to wonder if the man doesn’t have narcissistic personality disorder.
I thought of that again today when I saw this post by SusanUnPC, with the picture of the special embroidered “President” chair on “O-Force One.” Jeebus.
Posted by Violet under Election 2008 on August 4, 2008, 10:59 pm EST
Did you think I’d died? Did you think I’d been kidnapped by the Obama campaign and forced to swear fealty to the god-king?
Actually I’ve just had an insanely busy and complicated week. I’m still busy, as a matter of fact. But I’m here and alive — well, no, actually I’m not alive. Extant is perhaps a better word. I’m still a ghost in the Smoking Lounge with my peeps Raoul, Alex the Grey Parrot, Nietzsche, and God. But I’ve been so fried these past few days that I didn’t even have time for the Friday night throwdown with Nerf ball and tequila shots, which is usually the highlight of my week. (By the way, God always wins at Nerf ball. Always. Her aim is incredible.)
But I have a treat for you: a trailer for the documentary in the works that will “tell the WHOLE story of what happened to the Democratic Party this year.” Man, this movie is going to be good. Watch:
Hey, everybody. It’s me, your long-lost host and ghost. 
