dagblog - Comments for "Women Against Christine O'Donnell"

I suppose if you're looking

Donal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:50:48 +0000

I suppose if you're looking for change, then all you have to go on is presentation because electing someone with a long record of political achievement isn't change. So we get Survivor: Government in which most of the contestants are eventually revealed to be models, actors and screwups that never made a mark anywhere else.

This Delaware brat reminds me

Richard Day — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:59:46 +0000

In reply to Women Against Christine O'Donnell

This Delaware brat reminds me of some Reese Witherspoon movie.

Only this one never even went to Law School.

If the Democrats' big problem

acanuck — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:25:14 +0000

In reply to I felt that I've been

If the Democrats' big problem next month is shaping up as the enthusiasm gap, then how is focusing attention on such poster children for the crazy as O'Donnell, Angle, Paladino or that would-be Nazi guy NOT a good thing? I hate it that the Dems' only campaign slogan is "The Pepublicans would be worse," but when there's so much evidence that it's true, lying there for the picking, hell, run with it. If candidates like this don't motivate Dems to GOTV, nothing can.

"It's only if you expect

Orlando — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:02:06 +0000

In reply to Women Against Christine O'Donnell

"It's only if you expect nothing of women that such women could meet your expectations."

This is a point that I wish were true because then I could get all righteously indignant about how men are still so completely oppressive! But, as I commented somewhere up above, I think conservative voters who count these candidates not just as qualified but as vastly preferable to the (hopefully) smarter and more well informed alternative aren't making those decisions because they devalue women. They are voting for men who are equally idiotic. Boehner and Cantor are their leaders, for goodness sake. Mike Pence and Louis Gohmert are two more that have already made the cut. Ben Quayle will likely soon be joining them.

It's true that it is insulting to women that these women should rise to the top. But so it is also insulting for men. Your gender's representatives at the conservative table are just as pretty and just as dumb. :)

You might be right, Ami, but

Orlando — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:42:46 +0000

In reply to Even a conservative man

You might be right, Ami, but I have an alternate theory. The conservative officeholders who are men probably think that they can control these women if and when they achieve office, but I don't think the average voter thinks that deeply about the ins and outs of congressional horse trading. Instead, I think the average conservative voter sees an attractive, young, somewhat charismatic woman who is a member of their party. I think that the President's detractors would say the same thing of the average liberal voter and their might be something to it. But at least our guy isn't a lunatic who can't think his way out of a paper bag.

My control over Wisconsin

Doctor Cleveland — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:40:51 +0000

In reply to What exactly are bloggers

My control over Wisconsin politics is actually extensive, especially my profound influence over GOTV efforts, but if I ever reveal that power on my blog I will lose it forever.

Oh. Whoops.

Bruce, to clarify:I look

Doctor Cleveland — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:38:20 +0000

In reply to Doctor Cleveland: Huh? I

Bruce, to clarify:

I look forward to reading what you write.

And that is where I should have left it.

Don't play innocent, Bruce.

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:34:00 +0000

In reply to Doctor Cleveland: Huh? I

Don't play innocent, Bruce. We know that you're trouble, and we're watching you like people who watch people who they know are trouble.

(I think the good doctor is just gun-shy due to some recent undaglike activity that we're not used to round these parts.)

Bslev aka Bruce meet Dr. Cleveland aka Dr. Cleveland. Dr. Cleveland meet Bruce. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.