Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to lose an election
I thought Republicans were supposed to be the party of women-who-hate-other-women:
South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a
running mate “whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
Maybe this is all just part of the Democrats’ GOP-envy. Gawd knows they’ve fallen all over themselves this year to become as Republican as possible. Their nominee is a corrupt candidate who cheated in the primaries, endorses Republican positions on everything from FISA to abortion, and campaigns with a blend of Reaganesque marketing and Bushian pseudo-religion. And they’ve tried to impose this candidate on an unwilling party with the same iron-hand authoritarianism that is usually the purview of the GOP.
My mother says, “Maybe they’ve decided that acting like Republicans is the only way to win after all these years.” Somehow I don’t think it’s working.
8 Responses to “Never underestimate the ability of Democrats to lose an election”
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descanso says:
Take a little trip over to Talk Left where Jeralyn Merritt, in her post “Polarizer in Chief” states that the ENTIRE COUNTRY is “terrified” of Sarah Palin, “except for a small number of women who think the race should still be about Hillary and sexism.” And then have a really stiff drink. I tried to respond to her, but she deleted me, as she is too busy rattling around in her own paranoia to be rational these days.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm EST -
Violet says:
That poor woman (Jeralyn, I mean). What on earth?
A friend of mine pointed me to a post by Eve Ensler at the Horrible Huff, and it was similarly unhinged, though better written. Ensler repeated uncritically every rumor about Palin, and ranted about how armageddon was gonna get us. She said she’d been having nightmares about Palin.
Back when Hillary was running, I said that I thought there were a whole lot of feminists who needed to do some serious soul-searching about their own attitudes to women. And I’m saying it again now, with Palin.
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kenoshaMarge says:
Feminists? Jeralyn Merritt and Eva Ensler are not feminists. They believe in “liberal” feminism and are interested in protecting women only as long as the woman in question thinks the same way that they do. That is not feminism to me. And the more they rant and rave the less credible they are to speak to women’s issues.
Personally I am not interested in anything Jeralyn Merritt says anymore. When she, a supposed defense attorney remarks that Sarah Palin has “lawyered up” over Troopergate I lost any interest in listening to her point of view on legal matters either. She’s self-destrucing in front of our eyes. She has become a joke.
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Ann Bartow says:
I won’t defend Fowler’s remark - how could I, it was horrible - but, she did apologize at least:
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Violet says:
I’m glad she apologized. Though I gotta admit, her apology doesn’t make much sense. If that was really the point she was trying to make, good lord.
But still, good on her for apologizing.
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Sis says:
I have a question. I watched the Obama “lipstick” clip this morning. I have also watched the “sweetie’ newsclip”. I listened, too, and noticed Obama speaks with what Canadians who are not too well tutored in southern U.S. accents (me) would call a “southern accent”, and cadence, and dropping his “g’s”.
I thought he was a boy in Hawaii, and would have developed his speech, accent there. I’ve never been to Hawaii. Is that a natural speech pattern there?
Or is this an affectation. I’m sincerely asking. I do know that some people are “speech sponges” and he may be one. But man it seems very convenient to suddenly sound like someone from the ‘hood.
Confession: ima speech sponge
Disclaimer: I’ve only been to the States once, 55 years ago. TV was rilly cool. We didn’t have it then. -
octogalore says:
Sis - I’ve wondered the same thing. I just got back from HI and didn’t notice any of the folks born there with that particular pattern.
Also, I’m wondering when he was ever in the hood. He went to a ritzy private school, briefly a NY college I think, then Harvard. Even when a c’ty organizer, he didn’t live in the hood and his associates mostly didn’t either.
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Sis says:
I’d expect him to sound a bit more Bostonian. That’s what *I’d* expect.
