Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Geraldine Ferraro, old party hack

She's been touting the line that opposition to Hillary, especially in the msm, is sexist by nature. To be against her is to be sexist by definition. Real Gloria Steinem stuff, people stuck in cultural timewarps. Yes, dinosaurs still roam the Earth folks but here's why the T. Rexes are wrong. Think about it, think about the courts, the culture, our laws. Almost everything is seen through a women's eyes these days, her perspective from child-custody cases in divorce proceedings to Anucha Brown Sanders & oh, don't pay your child support you're a Deadbeat Dad facing some serious jail time. To take a man's view these days or even to consider it is considered retrograde. Whatever animates political opposition to Hillary it ain't this but there Ferraro was on the Today show this morning still talking like it's 1968. Now as has been already pointed out by some conservative commentators this is fascinating stuff to watch, this identity politics thing which is now so firmly entrenched in Democratic Party machinery. You have an African-American dude running, you have an older liberal chick in the race, it's like Ferraro is saying we'd sooner rid ourselves of our latent racism rather than our sexism. We're living in the Age of the Ism only now we have different schools of thought as to which Ism is more important, it's kinda like, how do I say? Al Sharpton and Gloria Allred oil-wrestling (sorry) with those superdelegates in the audience tired of the whole thing. Now what would have really made this race even more interesting than it already is would be for a Gay Guy to run.

5 comments:

  1. For future reference it'd be much better to have fusion candidates, hell go for the whole trifecta, a liberal black woman who's gay. No party infighting, just peace, serenity.

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  2. Well thank goodness you didn't bring Obama's wife into this, he'd get really mad if you did.

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  3. So she's been the one nixing a Hillary VP all along!

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  4. Can you imagine a trifecta candidate, would that candidate ever get questions about real issues, or would it all be about bigotry and how anyone who doesn't vote for this candidate must be one?

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  5. & in the case of the Gay Guy running for president, if he gets in we could see a 1st Man or Husband along the way if CA is a harbinger of things to come.

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