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The Clinton Chorus [George Will on Identity Politics]
Townhall ^ | May 18, 2008 | George Will

Posted on 05/17/2008 10:41:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Women, we are told by some people who say they know them, are not amused. Women, or at least those whose consciousnesses have been properly raised, supposedly think that the impatience being expressed about the protracted futility of Hillary Clinton's campaign is disrespectful. They say that if the roles were reversed -- if Barack Obama's delegate arithmetic were as hopeless as hers -- people would not be so insensitive as to try to hurry a man off the stage.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; election; elections; georgewill; hillary; identitypolitics; obama; vicepresidency; vicepresident
Out of the park, IMO.
1 posted on 05/17/2008 10:41:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Live by political correctness, die by political correctness.

Anybody opposes Hillary, it must be that you are a woman hater.

If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist.

Gotta love it.


2 posted on 05/17/2008 11:05:40 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When asked what should be most important in choosing the party’s presidential nominee, 51 percent of Democrats polled said “skin color,” while 49 percent said “sex organs.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


3 posted on 05/18/2008 12:09:48 AM PDT by John Semmens
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is kind of off topic, however, I hope the GOP resolves it’s own issues with identity politics by the 2012.

They reason we are where we are with the crud of a candidate we have with McCain is because of the identity politics of the Huckster and Mitt.

Both of these guys need to do what is best for the country and not thier perceived political interests and forswear efforts for the Presidency in the future.

There is a significant percentage of Republicans that will never vote for a Mormon.

And there is a significatn percentage of Republicans that will never vote for the Huckster because of his Christian Socialist Big-Government message and because he so blatantly played the identity card in his campaign.

We need to look forward to 2012 and hopefully coalesce around a Reagan Conservative who did not relatively recently switch from Liberal to Conservative (Mitt).


4 posted on 05/18/2008 12:12:47 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We have a presidential election cycle that will be tattooed in the mind for ever.

A self centered lying female who believes she is owed the job.

A half black guy who thinks he should be given the job because he can walk & talk.

And an ex POW (ie: war hero) who uses his membership in the Republican Party as a platform from which to jab sharpened sticks into the eyes of fellow members.


They say "that which doesn't kill you ... makes you stronger".


I'm fearing for our mortality this time.

5 posted on 05/18/2008 4:53:23 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: SoConPubbie

We need to look forward to 2012 and hopefully coalesce around a Reagan Conservative who did not relatively recently switch from Liberal to Conservative (Mitt).

______________________________________________________

We had one. His name was Fred Thompson. Nobody wanted him.


6 posted on 05/18/2008 5:44:32 AM PDT by CTOCS (Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.)
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To: SoConPubbie
I hope the GOP resolves it’s own issues with using the term "identity politics" by the 2012.

ftfy

I hate the expression!

7 posted on 05/18/2008 5:58:38 AM PDT by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: SoConPubbie
I hope the GOP resolves it’s own issues with using the term "identity politics" by the 2012.

ftfy

I hate the expression!

8 posted on 05/18/2008 5:58:55 AM PDT by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
So, if you oppose McCain, you must be an "ageist" - unwilling to accept the idea of a septuagenarian as President.
9 posted on 05/18/2008 5:59:31 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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