Women to Dread

When Sarah Palin made her political debut, she rocked my world in a very bad way.  With every vacuous and ignorant remark she made, I would cringe.  I swore that if she got into office I would leave the country.  I had never been this incensed about a politician in my lifetime.  This is not how I imagined women taking leadership in politics would be.  Shrill soundbites, meaningless phrases... all purporting feminism.

Ladies, this is not feminism.  It is the opposite!  The Republican Party/Conservatives have created a monster breed of unintelligent female political candidates.  It's sheer evil genius to try to trick the less than educated conservatives into... I don't know, thinking they are somehow progressive?  I'm not even sure if that's the draw.  But since then, all intelligent women can shake their heads with dread and agony...  the Palin minions have multiplied!

In no particular order:

Linda McMahon- The telling response in a NYT article:  I asked her, for instance, whether she was in favor of reforming entitlement programs that, along with military outlays, represent the principal forces driving spending levels ever higher. “We’re going to have to look at them,” she said, “but I can tell you that that has got to be done in the legislative arena, with open debate, with people on both sides really tackling this and talking about it. We’ve got to strengthen our entitlement programs. We’ve got to make sure that our contract with seniors is maintained and upheld.” But, she added: “I’ve made a specific point of saying I’m not going to go into that on the campaign trail, because I don’t think that’s appropriate. I think the appropriate arena is the legislative arena.”  In other words, she doesn't know how to answer that question.  She's never thought about it. 

Christine O'Donnell- All the stupidity of Palin without the weirdly endearing qualities.  I could have sworn in her closing remarks that she read "we will defeat our enemies and see triumph over freedom.  The LA times had a transcript (Christine O'Donnell-Chris Coons debate: Full transcript) and filled it in for her: "We will cut spending. We will reform our government, and we will defeat our enemies and see triumph of (ph) our (ph) freedom again."  Hopefully for her it was just a weird accent thing and not a misread.  That wasn't the worst of it, obviously.  She interrupted, she deflected real questions, she couldn't think of a Supreme Court case...

KARIBJANIAN:  Well, we've talked about the Supreme Court, and obviously a United States senator has the opportunity to determine in a way the make-up of that court.  So what opinions of late that have come from our high court do you most object to?
O'DONNELL:  Oh, gosh.  Give me a specific one, I'm sorry.
KARIBJANIAN:  Actually, I can't, because I need you to tell me which ones you object to.
O'DONNELL:  I'm very sorry.  Right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot, but I'll put it up on my Web site, I promise you.

Good Lord, woman, you don't even have the case down that your party eats for dinner.

Sharron Angle- Told a bunch of Latino students they looked Asian.  For lack of a better expression, WTF?

Where have all the smart women gone?  Or does this just prove that women really still are hitting a glass wall unless being exploited as "women" in politics?  Sigh.