Friday, September 12, 2008
The most striking feature of the Republican Party's mocking denunciation of Barack Obama's use of "lipstick-on-a-pig" is it portrays the moose meat-eating, wolf-shooting, tough-as-a-pit bull hockey mom Sarah Palin as the frail victim of overbearing sexism.
Turns out, though, that "lipstick-on-a-pig" actually is more of a favorite, all-occasion applause line for Republicans, not Democrats.
In the 2004 presidential campaign, Vice President Cheney used it three times in speeches against Democrat John Kerry. His wife, Lynne Cheney, used it once against Kerry. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner used "lipstick on a pig" metaphor to describe lousy GOP fundraising ...
The GOP needs to stop this meaningless mudslinging and get on with debating real issues that affect real people.
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