Abortions, pigs, white female voters and the implosion of a rock star.
Your humble messenger has always said that Republicans do not win elections, Democrats lose them. Ahh well – do you see what I mean? I wonder if Michelle’s husband Barry understands? As all the conservatives here have recently noticed, the Obama campaign is coming apart before our eyes. Look at what has happened just in the last 24 hours.
Obama makes a gaff that even the audience that he is speaking to believes he is comparing Governor Palin to a pig. Now he is spending time addressing that. His message now is ‘I did not say what they said I did. I am not who they are saying I am.’ Can you imagine the laugh James ‘its the economy stupid’ Carville is getting out of this. I have a question: If Senator Obama can’t handle the heat from a hillbilly hockeymom, how in the world is he going to handle all the despots he has vowed to meet with?
Now the junior Senator from Illinois gets the privilege of dealing with this…
South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate “ whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.”
One of the problems with being an elitist is you usually don’t think you are one. Fowler really stepped in it. Does anyone recall when Obama declared that the Republicans would play the race card? Between the candidate himself and his minions they have had to order more misogynist cards from Bicycle due to having dealt so many.
The WAPO comes out with their latest poll on white female voters showing a 20 point change in favor of McCain, and the Obama camp just denies it. You have to hand it to them they blew the WAPO poll out of the water by using devastating logic…
… campaign manager, David Plouffe, was more pointed when asked about the findings at a briefing on Monday, telling a Washington Post reporter, “Your poll is wrong.”
Former Hillary Clinton supporter turned McCain voter Lynette Long trashed Democrats as sexists during introductory remarks at the McCain rally here.
She was also the only speaker at the rally to specifically slam Obama for his much talked about “lipstick on a pig” line which Republicans are construing as a direct attack on Sarah Palin.
“Yesterday, I understand Senator Obama personally said, ‘you can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still a pig,’” she said to boos from the tens of thousands of supporters in the crowd. “Well Mr. Obama, Mr. Obama, calling girls names is something you do in fifth grade and I don’t want a fifth grader running my country.”
They can say what they want about ‘real pro-choice’ women not being impressed with Sarah Palin, but she has jolted Camille Paglia of all people …
Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich and rammed pro-sex, pro-beauty feminism down the throats of the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.
The overall conditions still favor Obama. He still has the time and talent to get back on track. He better or he is cruising for a 45 state McGovern style whipping. (Dave is right, these longer posts, even if they are 80% quotes – cut and pasted, are not for me! 
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I have to ask if people were incited to speak out as much when the Republican candidate himself made the same comment when running against Hillary Clinton. The comment referenced came from a response to Senator Clinton’s proposed health care reform program stated earlier in the campaign. Sounds like a typical distraction tactic. Tell nothing about what you plan to do for the country, create conflict where there is none, & give em what you want them to have.
Chrisby
September 10, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Chrisby, you can’t possibly be suggesting that the McCain campaign doesn’t want to talk about who has the best platform, can you? This couldn’t possibly have been a trap to trick the Mccain campaign into defusing the cries of sexism and making themselves look silly with an accusation that even Meghan McCain thinks is baseless, could it? Nah….
Oh, and McCain used the lipstick line THREE times at least. Odd that he didn’t recognize it.
Speaking of sexism, I have a joke. Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Give up? Because her father is Janet Reno! I can’t take credit for that one, it was John McCain’s. I wonder if any of those Hillary supporters have heard that one…
OK, putting away the snark… Seriously, though, when did Republicans start falling for this crap? I thought Democrats were the ones that always got caught in the PC Police trap!
And why don’t we taolk about McCain’s ad where he damns Obama for supporting a bill to help little kids protect themselves from pedophiles? That’s kinda stupid, isn’t it? McCain is really, really losing the press, and I don’t think he’ll be getting them back. Maybe he thinks that will work out for him, but I don’t think it will. Even people like Mark Halperin are starting to turn on him.
Wes
September 10, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I couldn’t care less what he really meant guys, that is not my point. You play ‘tit for tit’, and who said what. You again continue to miss my point. It is the perception, Obama’s reaction to it, and the result. LOL Catch a clue please guys!
pg - your humble messenger
September 10, 2008 at 4:21 pm
You all might recall that Fowler is the wife of former DNC Chairman Don Fowler, the guy caught on camera phone calliing Gov. Palin ‘Dan Quayle on steroids’ and having a good old laugh about Hurricane Gustav maybe hitting New Orleans. Dinner parties must be great at their house.
And, until you show me where Hillary Clinton made a widely publicized, much circulated comment about herself and lipstick less than a week before McCain used that phrase, your defense of Obama’s use of it against Gov. Palin falls completely flat. (as for me, I was inclined to dismiss it, since it is a pretty common phrase, until I failed to come up with any way that it made any sense in the context of his speech)
Oh, and Wes, McCain apologized for the crack about Chelsea. Let us know when Obama apologizes for calling his opponent’s running mate a pig on the stump instead of blaming republicans for daring to be be upset that he called his opponent’s running mate a pig (reminiscent of his outrage that McCain would dare to be outraged that he had called him a racist). Then you can roll that out as an ‘equal’.
You think he’s NOW losing the press? What planet, exactly, do you live on?
Falze
September 10, 2008 at 4:52 pm
He didn’t call her a pig. On Letterman, tonight, he pointed out that even if you interpret it that way, she wouldn’t have been the pig in that analogy, anyway, she’d be the lipstick. The pig would still refer to McCain’s false change mantle.
And Falze, I’m not talking about the liberal press, I’m talking about the (at WORST) moderate press. I don’t know what planet we’re on that Mark Halperin would qualify as liberal media. I think that we may well see Kristol’s prediction come true and see Colin Powell endorse Barack Obama if McCain doesn’t start running a serious campaign OR if Sarah Palin doesn’t prove herself to be the quickest study in the history of the country.
As for the Fowlers, throw em under the bus, for all I care. Both remarks show them to be pretty callous. Besides, they were Hillary supporters anyway, so…
Edit: He also made a funny: “There’s no doubt that [Palin] has been a phenomenon. I mean, as somebody who used to be on the cover of Time and Newsweek — those were the days. I had a recent offer with Popular Mechanics, centerfold with a wrench.”
Wes
September 10, 2008 at 5:02 pm
PG I hear ya about this post being about perception. Point made and point taken. It’s just a bit silly to me that “issues” like the pig comment get the lion’s share of the press coverage.
Note to Obama: Listen next time try this one”just because you pour syrup on shit doesn’t make it pancakes.” Man I should be a campaign manager.
thompaine
September 10, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Tell the people in the crowd he wasn’t calling her a pig. He also said he didn’t call McCain a racist. These denials are commonly referred to as ‘lies’ after you are ‘caught red handed’.
Falze
September 10, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Tell that to Sarah Palin. If she agrees with you, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.
Wes
September 10, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Sorry, I’m with Josh Marshall on this. Obama should embrace the pig.
If McCain does win, I look forward to four more years of my fellow ConClubbers telling me how McCain, like Bush, is screwing things up because he is not a “real conservative”.
Andre the Defiant
September 10, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Sarah Palin has to take the high road. It’s what politicians usually do. They can leave it up to people like us to call a spade a spade.
(yes, used intentionally for mockery purposes)
Falze
September 11, 2008 at 6:38 am
I have never said that about Bush, so you do not have worry about me telling you that about McCain. I will just tell you lost.
pg - your humble messenger
September 11, 2008 at 8:28 am
How is another African American’s endorsement going to help Obama get back on message? If Hillary’s backing has not helped, how will Powell’s?
The Democratic Party in action is a thing of beauty!
pg - your humble messenger
September 11, 2008 at 8:30 am