PALIN-DRONES-- It's official: Women are idiots

[dorkulon]

by Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast

http://www.buffalobeast.com/131/palin-drones.html

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It seemed at first that McCain may have thrown the election by choosing an unknown, unready running mate with a BS in communications from Idaho University and a hard-right Christianist ideology, in a ploy to woo disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters. “We’re not that stupid,” came the cry from insulted feminists, and they were right to recognize that Palin did not in any way represent their ambitions.

But it turns out that they are that stupid, or at least some of them are. While it seems unfathomable that women who supported Hillary Clinton could flip to the GOP ticket for a woman who is pro-life, pro-assault rifle and pro-Bush just because she’s a woman, McCain’s numbers among white women have shot up with Palin’s stunt nomination. This is incredibly disappointing.

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Before anyone starts claiming that black Obama voters are equally shallow, consider whether they’d have voted for Alan Keyes. Because that’s the nearest analogy I can think of for Palin’s politics. Black people wouldn’t vote for Alan Keyes, even if he were running against Robert Byrd. They’re just not that stupid. So what the hell is wrong with white women? Are they really so aggrieved that Hillary got edged out of the Democratic nomination by Obama that they’re willing to ruin the country just for spite?

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It was the Clinton campaign that opened the door on claiming gender victimization as an electoral tactic. As her chances in the Democratic primary waned, Clinton and her surrogates went hog wild on the sexism charges, lashing out at anyone who dared criticize her. Admittedly, there were some ignorant comments here and there, albeit never from the Obama campaign. But when things got hairy, the Clinton campaign and its supporters leaned on sexism as an all-purpose excuse for losing, and it was a big steaming pile of horseshit. The fact is that Clinton’s gender was pretty much the only thing that distinguished her from a field rife with old, white, compromised senators. If Hillary Clinton were a man, there would have been no telling her apart from Dodd, Biden, or John Kerry for that matter. But Obama, even if you made him white, would still have been young, eloquent, and charismatic. In other words, as weird as this sounds, if you made Clinton and Obama into white men, Obama would have kicked her ass—it wouldn’t have been close.

But Hillary’s dead-enders insist that their expected primary victories were robbed from them by the “rampant misogyny” of Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, and somehow Obama himself. And as Hillary’s defeat drew ever closer, she herself ratcheted up the faux feminist rhetoric, leaving Obama with hordes of angry, inconsolable women blaming him for their imagined oppression, and somehow admiring Sean Hannity at the same time. And now, the Republicans have picked up the tactic and run with it, accusing Obama of calling Palin “a pig” (willful ignorance of cliché metaphors is a symptom of this condition) and labeling anyone who dares scrutinize Palin a sexist, including Tina Fey. These allegations hold about as much water as calling condemnations of Michael Vick racist.

There’s a great sketch from the Dave Chapelle show, wherein Chappelle and crew are dressed up as classic movie monsters. Charlie Murphy is Frankenstein’s monster, and when he gets fired from his office job, he accuses his boss of racism. A black coworker looks at him and exclaims, “nigga, you a Frankenstein!”

Nobody is after Sarah Palin because she’s a woman. The fact is, she’s a Frankenstein. And if women are so angry about losing a primary fight that they’re willing to elect a Frankenstein, even a female Frankenstein, then they really are gullible, emotional, weak-minded fools, and they really do deserve all the derision they’ve gotten and more.

http://www.buffalobeast.com/131/palin-drones.html

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[babylonsister]

1. It's official: Allan Uthman is an idiot for generalizing like that. nt

[NMDemDist2]

2. I don't know the date on this article but the recent polls do not back him up n/t

[dbmk]

4. I was about to say that

I am pretty sure that Rachel Maddow ran through the numbers the other day, and debunked the idea that Palin had helped McCain with women. Quite the contrary it seemed. Didn't see where she got her numbers from though.

[ellenfl]

3. all it means is that the female fundie base finally came on board.

just listen to baye buchanan.

ellen fl

[Captain Hilts]

5. It's amazing the attention that 20 women with a telephone and website get.

And people here eat it with a spoon.

If it's negative about the Clintons, it MUST be true!

IGNORE them, ignore this thread.