As much as I love Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann I am not sure I can wholeheartedly support either one of them. We live in a sexist world and we have to come to grips with it if we want to defeat a man who is either the biggest buffoon in American History or the Manchurian President. Obama has got to go and if it means holding my nose for Perry or Romney, I will do so.
At this time we should recognize two truths that are self evident. 1. People are inherently sexist. 2. Women are more sexist than men.
Why are there fewer women than men in elected offices? Because women do not vote for women. In the 2006 Massachusetts Gubernatorial election, Deval Patrick beat Kerry Healey by 20 points. Among male voters, it was a tight race. But the suffragettes turned out in force to put their sister back in the kitchen where she belongs. This pattern is usually repeated when women run male opponents.
If Sarah Palin could run on her record, she would probably win the GOP nomination. She removed unsavory elements from her own party. She negotiated some tough deals with the big, bad oil companies. Perhaps most importantly, she left her state with one of the largest budget surpluses in US History. On a per capita basis, the surplus was Secretariat at a turtle race. There are no close seconds.
The Dems are possibly more sexist than the GOP. Hillary wss infinitely more qualified than the sophomoric community organizer but the latter was more "presidential" (insert laugh track here.) But the NeoCons/Republicans, etc., are even more hostile to women. Rove, Babbin, Krauthammer, et al, hate women candidates in general and Sarah Palin in particular. It's the lay of the land.
Tonight, Jed Babbin was hosting a "Jerry Doyle Show." Doyle is usually unlistenable but he had a guest host tonight so I listened to Babbin bash Palin mercilessly. He hates her to such a degree that I suspect he has a closet crush on Obama. He started the hour bashing Rove and Palin. He then played a clip of Rove bashing Palin. It was MSNBC grade material.
Babbin then blathered on that if Palin was smart she should have studied under historian Paul Johnson or Ambassador Bolton to elevate her intellect. He then praised Perry and Rubio (the Rubio praise is really wearing thin with me.) OK, did Perry trapise off to England to be tutored by Paul Johnson? Did Rubio? Did either of these geniuses have a private office with John Bolton? I kind of doubt it.
When Babbin talks about Rubio he reminds the listener of Chris Matthews discussing his biological reaction to Barack Obama. It is nauseating and he isn't the only one. I used to like Rubio but all this balderdash about Rubio being a VP candidate gives me the chills. He is possibly less experienced than Obama was when he ran for president. He might be qualified to be the president in waiting in a few years but for now, he is too green.
The Rubio fan club sound a lot like Obots. He's so good looking and he's so smart and he would be the first Hispanic...Take a cold shower, boys. America got an inexperienced HISTORICAL FIRST in 2008 and are we better off because of it?
Rubio, Christie, Perry and every other Y-Chromosone political figure will be viewed more favorably than Palin or Bachmann or Brewer. I'm not sure there's anything we can do about that. But America is on the road to Hasbeensville and if Obama wins another election, there will be no turning back. We will join Portugal and Spain and the Dutch on the shelf of once-powerful nations and we will remind passersby that we used to matter. We used to be somebody. Somebody important. We used to be.
If the choice is so stark that we must decide to defeat sexism or to defeat Obama, I will choose the latter. Sexism is sometimes a drag but truth is, we get used to it. But can we get used to Mr. Smug and his legions of destroyers?
Not me!
Not ever!
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