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The Gender Card Talking Point
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
To hear McCain surrogates tell it, the McCain-Palin ticket is the victim of one big liberal media conspiracy, apparently, to deprive Sarah Palin of her due process and to discredit her. Because she's a woman. Yesterday, campaign strategist Steve Schmidt chastised the New York Times's Elisabeth Bumiller for asking whether Palin could balance her family and campaigning. Today, Sen. Lindsey Graham grouped together every question about Palin's family and put them into a sexism box. So did the McCain campaign surrogate ...
A Real Slick Movie Move
Whiskey Fire —
... Lindsay Graham, who is not at all a whiner, but instead a champion of Women's Rights: Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top surrogate for John McCain, Tuesday accused critics of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
of sexism for suggesting she could not handle her multiple roles as
mother, soon-to-be grandmother, McCain's running mate and, potentially,
vice president. Uh-huh.
I believe the term for this is "situational feminism."
Yes, it is sexist to say she cannot have young children and be vice president. After all, they let Cheney ...
The gender card
Political Animal —
... ," a point that Lindsey Graham was all too happy to echo. Welcome to Republican Feminism in the 21st century. This is politics at its most insipid, and while I'm confident Republicans are well past the point of shame, now would be a very good time for some. Their arguments have a certain child-like quality -- if you question the credibility and qualifications of a woman candidate, you must be some kind of misogynist. One assumes that if Democrats had taken a similar attitude -- any and all criticism of Barack Obama necessarily constitutes racism -- the reaction would have ...
