Cowboy Up, Boys August 26, 2010
Posted by lizp4 in Uncategorized.trackback
I’m really curious about the GOP big boys. It has occurred to me that I don’t see a single one of them out there duking it out with the bad guys. They are all sittin’ around their swimming pools, sippin’ their summer drinks, and just dozin’ in the sun.
There’s only one person who’s out mixing it up with the lefties — A person who isn’t even running for anything that I can see. Yet this one person is raising more welts and causing more bruises on the baddies on the left than any five of the GOP beltway faithful.
It says a lot about a bunch of supposed “men,” when they will sit back and watch a girl do all the fighting, and not even offer to hold her parka. I guess she’s the only one out there on the Right with the knobs to take the fight to the enemy.
If I was Mitt or Tim, or any of those guys, I’d be downright embarrassed that I hadn’t even taken a swing at the dems, let alone landed a punch. But Miz Sarah is out there like a buzzsaw, and anybody who thought twitter is for sissies hasn’t yet seen what Sarah can do with it. Whackitty, bappity…
Cowboy, up, boys. Are you going to just sit there and let the little lady sheriff do all the work?
Bloody. Clinton is aggressively cunning. Palin is cunningly aggressive. As a champion athlete, Sarah knows how to press an advantage. Clinton is just a flint-hearted harpy who is convinced the presidency belongs to HER.
It would be very interesting. But C. would have no qualms about clearing the trail in any manner that got the job done. “Ruthless” is putting it mildly.
I saw a closeup of Palin’s face today. She was smiling, but her eyes were just TIRED. She’s fighting almost alone. It has to be wearing on her.
Interesting point, Liz. I’ve been thinking something similar. And it is not just Sarah. There is Jan Brewer in Arizona, Michelle Bachman from Michigan (I think) and several other up-and-coming ladies that are stepping right out while the men are definitely holding back. It is rather curious to watch.
On the one hand, I wonder if the men are already too seriously compromised to make a good candidate; they have too much dirty laundry. If this is the case, we really don’t want them running, nor do we want them in office.
I think there is another factor at work here as well. It looks bad for a male politician to attack a female politician; it us ungentlemanly. This is probably the last vestige of civility left in the political sphere, but I think that these woman are exploiting an advantage that in some senses in unfair but very real. I don’t know how long it will last or quite how it will be destroyed, but I expect it to crumble soon.
Carly Fiorina in California is another rising woman pol, but one that I’m not too pleased to see. I do not see her as sincerely conservative, but rather as simply exploitative. She ran a good company (HP) into the ground, and there is nothing conservative about doing that.
It does seem to be the age of the woman politician. We could easily have both major parties fielding women candidates for President in 2012. Say Palin against Clinton. Wouldn’t that be something to see??