California NOW Chief Says Whitman Still a 'Whore' ("Yes, that's an accurate statement")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

California NOW Chief Says Whitman Still a 'Whore'

The president of the National Organization for Women may have said it's wrong for anyone to call a woman a "whore," but the head of the California NOW affiliate says Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman still is one.

California NOW President Parry Bellasalma told the TPM blog on Thursday that the description of the Republican candidate for governor of California is accurate.

"Meg Whitman could be described as 'a political whore.' Yes, that's an accurate statement," Bellasalma said after a TPM blogger called to ask her about a story that appeared on the Daily Caller website.

In the Daily Caller report, Bellasalma said a conversation recorded by a voicemail system after Whitman's Democratic opponent, Jerry Brown, thought he'd hung up on the Los Angeles Police Protective League demonstrates that Whitman is a sell-out and thus deserving of the description.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/15/california-chief-says-whitman-whore/

[Barack_America]

1. "Opportunist" wouldn't suffice?

Please, enough with calling women "whores".

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. There are certain positive connotations to 'opportunist' - someone

who leaps at a chance, maybe not always with the best results, but a person who takes action. An opportunist is simply someone who takes advantage of an opportunity - entrepeneur is a synonym.

Whore is a perfectly valid word which applies to the majority of Republicans - and the majority of Republicans are men, you might remember. And it carries none of the positives of 'opportunist'.

[Kablooie]

5. Calling her a gigolo doesn't work very well either.

[bemildred]

2. Oh good.

:popcorn:

[Upton]

3. Good...that's better