"Would anyone on the right give a shit what Palin said if she looked like Olympia Snowe? Nope."

[babylonsister]

Things you shouldn’t have to explain to grown-ups

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Ask yourself this: Would anyone on the right give a shit what Palin said if she looked like Olympia Snowe? Nope.

Snowe is what they call a RINO these days, but there are female politicians every bit as wingnutty as Palin—Ginny Brown-Waite and Virginia Foxx, for example. No one gives a rat’s ass how they feel about Obama’s nuclear arms reduction proposal. Why? Because they don’t generate starbursts.

What we’re seeing on the GOP side with the Palin phenomenon isn’t progress, at least, not the kind to which we should aspire. It’s a beauty pageant with an expanded platform statement consisting wholly of red meat.

So while Marsh laments the lack of a lefty Palin, I think it’s cause for celebration. There’s no lefty Sarah Palin because Democrats don’t get all tingly and shouty over reasonably well-preserved 40-something mombies who like to shoot moose in the face. It’s just not our thing.

Even if there were a woman politician who boldly asserted lefty positions, made us cheer by trash-talking wingnuts on TV and lived what our base considers an exemplary lifestyle—say if Alan Grayson were a woman—I still don’t think you’d see liberals lining up to get his autograph, rushing to salons to mimic his beehive or emptying Lens Crafters of Grayson-style specs. To our credit, we’re just less like Jonas Brothers-smitten tweener girls than wingnuts are (most of us, anyway).

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