Yes, I do feel insulted by this

For background details, please see my previous post on FOX's apparent preamble to the naming of Palin.
Actually, why don't I just let you watch the video.



I do wonder if FOX perhaps had a little bit of insight into the imminent plans of the John McCain campaign. I guess the answer is obvious.

Yes, I share the anger of the many, many, many people who consider McCain's surprise pick of Palin as running mate an egregious attempt to pander to women voters (the choice also clearly serves to steal some of the Obama's thunder in the "historic moment" department).

I've read a few blogs now that castigate those of use who are airing our offense at the McCain campaign. These people are calling us sexist for our audacious assumption that Palin was only picked because of her gender. We are such assholes.

Hmm. I don't think her gender was the only reason she was selected. Not at all. She's right in line with the base of the Republican party. She wants to make abortion illegal. She loves guns. She hates polar bears. She doesn't much like icky science because it supports such nauseating ideas as 1. Evolution is essentially irrefutable, 2. Global warming is quite real and very much a result of human activity, and 3. Drilling for oil now would not yield results for many years and would therefore not cause any immediate drop in fuel costs or reduction of dependence on foreign oil, and even when the oil is drilled and refined, the predicted effect on cost is a reduction of something like $0.04 to the gallon.

Yes, I certainly believe that McCain picked Palin just as much (if not more) to placate the right wing as to lure Hillary supporters.

So let me explain something: it's not his pick of a woman that upsets people like me. It's the fact that Palin is now being used as yet another way to pander to the women's vote, in a long string of pandering attempts this election season. We don't like that a bunch of Republican women have been parading as Democrats claiming to be so angry at Obama that they're willing to throw their support behind their political polar opposite. Seriously. Do you PUMAs think we're so stupid that we'll see you and think to ourselves, "Gee, what they're doing is so feminist 2K! I want in!"

Pandering pisses people off. In this case it pisses me off. So Republicans, quit treating me like an idiot and then calling me sexist for having an opinion, all the while denying that the glass ceiling even exists.

Jackasses.