Politics aside--unfortunately, they're going to go after her looks.

[Bicoastal]

Republicans and Conservatives have no leg to stand on when it comes to challenging her legal experience (Kagan was Dean of Harvard Law), and of course, she's not black or latina or asian, so they can't accuse her of racial favoritism like they did Sotomayor. So mark my words, they'll revel in the fact that she's a woman who isn't conventionally attractive.

I simply cannot WAIT to hear what ugly, blatantly sexist nickname Rush Limbaugh comes up with later today, despite the fact that Rush is no prize himself.

[lamp_shade]

1. What?

[lillypaddle]

3. Indeed, it's already started

lezie, lesbo, fat. What a bunch of mindless shit.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Well, let them

It'll only show how mean and superficial they are.

We should start a pool on WHO will mention it first. My bet is Laura Ingraham.

[Dappleganger]

4. Name one female political or judicial nominee who hasn't been subjected to sexism.

Yeah, I have no doubt that Mr. Limpy will be going after her looks, despite the fact he looks like Jabba the Hut's great-uncle.

[Uzybone]

5. they should go ahead

[Are_grits_groceries]

6. If they do that,

the Democratic chairman of the committee should make sure somebody will be ready to hand them mirrors.
This would be their reaction:
http://www.youtube.com/v/caX1OvnxCA8

[slackmaster]

7. Of course no liberal or Democrat would EVER go after someone because of his or her looks

[FreeJG]

8. oh...there is soooooo much more to go after...

are you a fascist????

[Bicoastal]

11. Yes, I'm a fascist.

Also, fuck you.

[spanone]

9. i have absolutely no interest whatsoever in what the oral flatulence one has to say.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. As a Democrat who has heard many a comment upon

the physical stature of Democrats I support, far more so from other Democrats than from Republicans, I find the idea that 'they' are doing what 'we' don't to be self serving as it usually is. Supporters of other candidates, as well as people who just have an ax to grid between cycles go out of their way to point out that Kucinich is short, they call him names that are considered slurs in the communities concerned with height prejudices. Elf, for example, or 'dwarf' which he is not, but some people are, and that is not a thing to frame as bad, anymore than is skin color.
It is just not cool to claim that others do wrongs that we'd never do, especially when we do them to our own as well as to theirs. If it is wrong to go after a person's looks, then it is wrong to go after a person's looks. When anyone does it. And Democrats most certainly do.
I just will not paint myself as being part of some great love in when the Party insults my favorites on the basis of looks, and also discriminates against my community on the basis of dogma.
Are they worse? Sure. And also, so what?

[lpbk2713]

12. Yup.

Expect the author of the "White House Dog" comment to be the first to make a public statement to that effect.