Sooner Be Blue

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2008/1/26

Swiftboaters Call Hillary a 'C**t'

@ 08:11 AM (8 months, 20 days ago)

A new 527 group, Citizens United Not Timid, has been formed with the single purpose of attacking Hillary Clinton. "It's one-word education," said the group's organizer Roger Stone, a longtime Republican player. He's selling C.U.N.T. T-shirts with Hillary's name on them.
 
http://www.citizensunitednottimid.org/
 
This is misogyny in its rankest and purest form. And it is only the beginning.
 
Ah well, anyone who uses that word isn't going to vote for a woman president, anyway.
 
And it's good to know not all Republicans are crooks...some are just a**holes.
 
The dirty tricks have already descended to this scuzzy level and it's only January. I predict this election going to make the last one (attacking Viet Nam vets) look like the Nobel Committee ran it.
 
Every redneck rightie on the Gulf Coast will be wearing those tank tops by summer...if the $25 doesn't cut into their beer money.
 
No one can deny the misogyny in this election. From Hillary doll nut-crackers to this. I don't see the same attacks on McCain, Romney, Obama or Edwards in a way that calls out their gender.
 
Hmm...I think this is the same Roger Stone in those tabloid photos a few years back, posing with his wife in swinger ads, soliciting sexual partners and specifying "no smokers or fat couples please." Yeah...the same guy who wrote 'family-values' campaign speeches for both Reagan and Dole.
 
http://www.nndb.com/people/844/000047703/
 
The Weekly Standard rabid righties say that Stone is "trying to tap into deep-seated sentiments about Clinton that pundits and rival candidates can't articulate." So their 'deep-seated sentiments' really do have something to do with her genitals. We women would rather Hillary be attacked because of her ideas, not her gender.
 
Boy, It's a good thing for Roger Stone that women don't vote.
 
Oh, wait...
 
Next thing they'll say is that this was planned by Hillary to actually help drum up support from women.
 
Because that's what's going to happen. It will backfire. Every time a decent woman sees something about one of those C.U.N.T. acronym T-shirts, Hillary Clinton is going to get a huge amount of sympathy and redoubled support from angry women...who make up 54+percent of the voters.
 
And they ain't gonna like the logo either---too much like a "stylized" vagina.
 
In fact, anyone with a grandmother, mother, sister or daughter ought to be rightly offended by this stunt.
 
If the Clinton campaign has any sense at all, they'll publicize the hell out of this T-shirt.
 
Women, regardless of political affiliation, DESPISE that word.
 
But remember now -- there's a method to this Republican sophomoric madness--they want Hillary to emerge from the pack. They think they can beat her. She mobilizes their base like no other. She's their biggest fundraiser. They are praying that she is the nominee...because Hillary would be a much better swiftboat target than Barrack.
 
Except in Texas where they'll try to drag him behind a truck.