As I Was Saying (VII)

Skip this if you're bored of politics. I'll get back to baseball, sex, and fun stuff soon. But it's the political season, so you'll have to bear with.

Here's some more ammunition to add to my theory that Palin's identity will be smashed and trashed by "feminists" far more than it will by any misogynistic man. I'm loving this. Their new transparency is absolutely beautiful.

Wendy Doninger, Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago’s Divinity School:

[Palin's] greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts and their votes, has driven thousands of real women to take to their computers in outrage. She does not speak for women; she has no sympathy for the problems of other women, particularly working class women.

That must be a pretty interesting religion class. And wait a minute...Palin's not a woman?

Cintra Wilson, Salon:

I confess, it was pretty riveting when John McCain trotted out Sarah Palin for the first time. Like many people, I thought, "Damn, a hyperconservative, fuckable, Type A, antiabortion, Christian Stepford wife in a 'sexy librarian' costume -- as a vice president? That's a brilliant stroke of horrifyingly cynical pandering to the Christian right. Karl Rove must be behind it."

Palin may have been a boost of political Viagra for the limp, bloodless GOP (and according to an ABC/Washington Post poll she has created a boost in McCain's standing among white women to a 53 over Obama's 41). But ideologically, she is their hardcore pornographic centerfold spread, revealing the ugliest underside of Republican ambitions -- their insanely zealous and cynical drive to win power by any means necessary, even at the cost of actual leadership.

Sarah Palin is a bit comical, like one of those cutthroat Texas cheerleader stage moms. What her Down syndrome baby and pregnant teenage daughter unequivocally prove, however, is that her most beloved child is the antiabortion platform that ensures her own political ambitions with the conservative right. The throat she's so hot to cut is that of all American women.

Got it. Now it is acceptable to knock a woman for her looks, ambition, type A personality, being a baby factory, and having a disabled son. Thanks for clearing that up.