Tuesday, November 24, 2009

"We saw through her quickly"

Sarah Palin has a problem with women, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll conducted in early November. This Sullivan reader explains why:

"Sarah Palin is the peppy cheerleader in high school all the boys thought was so sweet but the girls knew was really a vicious shrew. She's the new girl in the office who wears tight shirts and three-inch heels, is super-friendly to her male superiors, ignores the other women, and gets promoted sooner than her more capable and hard working peers. She's the outgoing PTA mom all of the other women are scared to cross because they will find themselves put on the worst committees. Only a woman knows how to give another woman a sweet smile and at the same time cut her down to size with an artfully crafted 'compliment' without male observers having a clue about what just happened. It's like a dog whistle."

Right after she was first announced as McCain's VP pick, I found myself in a men's wear store owned by a very dear family friend, an old-world Italian widower. Both he and his manager, an older gay man, were both Republican, and were both completely enamored of Sarah Palin. In fact, the owner went into his office and retrieved a color print of Palin in her leather skirt and said "Whoa, boy, would you look at that?"

Well, let's face it -- she looks pretty hot in that picture, although it looks like something shot about 20 years ago. But it was clear to me then that she was going to pull in the horny man vote. But as soon as I heard that the McCain strategy in picking Palin was to attract disaffected Hillary supporters, I knew that women would not like her because she was a manipulative symbol in every possible way, from her decision to carry a Down's Syndrome baby to term, to her being a working mother of five, to her being a regular gal from the Alaskan frontier. FAIL!

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