Macho Ma’am: Is Sarah Palin a “Muscular Feminist,” or Simply a Dumb Jock?
Our pal Robert Lanham has a new piece up about Sarah Palin at Radar. Go check it out:
Anyone who remembers the movie Bob Roberts will be familiar with Palin’s type; the pseudo populist who subverts a progressive movement and co-opts it to fit his/her own image. Yup, that’s Sarah. But the frustrating thing about the Bob Roberts and Sarah Palins of the world is this: they’re typically most successful when the institutions they’re co-opting are stagnating. And let’s face facts: feminism has been suffering an identity crisis for years, and it’s only gotten worse during the 2008 election cycle.
Also, Steve M. makes a very good point:
What I find most striking about Sarah Palin’s inability to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade that she disagrees with is that this would be a ridiculously easy question for a wide range of righties—not just political pros but online wingnut amateurs. Um, the banning of public-school prayer? That still gets ordinary right-wingers’ juices flowing. How about the recent eminent-domain case Kelo v. New London? That one infuriated the Freepers. Or what about the decisions that have tried to constrain the White House’s detention policies—Boumediene v. Bush, for instance? That one also had Freeper knickers in a twist. So Palin isn’t just less informed than the average VP candidate—she’s less informed than thousands of random message-board and blog devotees on the far right.
And Wonkette has rolled out a new pic of Sarah Palin as the Ice Princess that is just plain adorable.
p.s. We’ll be rolling out another one of our open threads at 8 PM ET for tonight’s VP debate, so make sure you come on by and join in the hilarity.
MORE: I’m going to yank up this Rumproast comment of the day from my buddy Iceberg Wedge:
My hope is that Sarah Palin fails so miserably and so completely that John McCain has to stand before the nation and declare “we are all ‘Joe Six Pack’ now.”
Posted by Kevin K. on 10/02/08 at 11:47 AM • Permalink
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