You decide.
Posted on 06/08/2008 12:41:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sacha Millstone is nobody's sweetie.
The Democratic insider will stand up at August's national convention and cast her vote for the candidate who suspended her bid on Saturday. And then Millstone will quit the party with which she is falling bitterly out of line.
"This isn't sour grapes. This is about the best candidate losing the nomination because she's a woman. It's the most blatant example of sexism in our society. This is about the party breaking my trust, women's trust. And that can't be fixed," she says.
Millstone hails the day in 2007 when Hillary Clinton announced she was smart enough, qualified enough and tough enough to be president.
"I had never heard those words come out of a woman's mouth and neither had anyone else," says the 49-year-old Boulder investment adviser who has spent 16 months volunteering on Clinton's national finance committee.
She pounded the pavement for 20 days in Iowa. And she has raised more than $300,000 for the campaign.
The shattering of Millstone's party loyalty came with what she deemed an all-out assault on Clinton "because she's a woman."
She winced when one biographer referred to Clinton's "thick ankles." She grumbled when NPR's political analyst likened the senator to the scorned stalker in "Fatal Attraction." And she grew incensed when talking-head Tucker Carlson said the mere sight of Clinton makes him "involuntarily cross my legs."
Millstone blames Barack Obama and party leaders for not rallying to Clinton's defense. And she slams them for trying to nudge the former first lady out of the race:
"That never would have happened if she were a man."
The final blow came last weekend, when Millstone stood in the rain protesting outside the hotel where party brass passed rules that she says threw Clinton overboard.
"First let me say that I have never been this angry in my life," she wrote in a dispatch from D.C.
There is no arguing with Millstone about whether Clinton was the most viable Democrat. She is unwavering that sexism cost her the race. Gender is the prism through which she views all things political. Any woman who doesn't, she says, is "deaf and blind."
History no doubt will have much to say about the attacks — both sexist and racist — that besmirched the 2008 primary race. And the party will spend years soul-searching about the jumbled rules by which it picks its nominees. Time will tell how many Clintonites ultimately flee the party.
Which brings me to Millstone's peculiar brand of identity politics and a group of feminists in the John Irving novel "The World According to Garp." In solidarity with Ellen James, a young girl whose tongue was cut off in a brutal rape, the so-called "Ellen Jamesians" cut out their tongues in symbolic protest.
Call me deaf and blind, as Millstone did more than once during our interview. But there is nothing at all feminist about quitting the party, refusing to vote Obama and threatening to back John McCain or any other candidate who opposes the values that drew devotees to Clinton in the first place.
Rather, it is the kind of hollow, self-defeating political overreaction that invokes the very stereotypes that cause women like Millstone to rise up in outrage.
Susan, you’re either a racist or a sexist; please pick one or the other and kindly move on…
Wonder if Obama will get the angry, soggy feminazi vote.
She's Obama's sweetie. She just does not realize it yet. When November rolls around she will go to the voting booth and pull the lever for Obama. It's all she knows - she can do no different.
Five months is forever in politics.
(p.s. Thank Rush for trying to save the little woman.)
Sexism is equal to racism when it interferes with the brain's decision to make good choices.
Sweetheart I support you quitting the Democrat party and hope you take all the other 18,000,000 airheads who supposedly cracked the glass ceiling for the Hildabeast.
The Clinton's are pure sympathy hogs.
Maybe, maybe not. I have made it my personal task to sample, from friends and family, who are far flung across these United States, the general feelings of the women regarding these primaries. Because I am from NJ, most of my friends and virtually all the wives (also friends) are Democrat, although not what you would call tinfoil hat types. There is an overwhelming dislike of Hussein among these people whether because they believe Hillary was denied the nomination through sexism (I don’t think that had anything to do with it) or because they simply do not trust or want a black man with a Muslim name who has NO experience, in the WH.
One of the most commonly expressed thoughts is “Who the hell IS this guy? I never heard of him before last year”, or words to this effect. Also if the libs believe the Reverend Wright et al thing has gone away, they are badly mistaken because a very large % of those I spoke to mentioned this along with his being a bit to slick sounding when he speaks.
I fully understandf this information is based on purely anecdotal evidence but it involves perhaps 50-60 individuals and I have seen much the same being said from other folks in different areas.
You decide.
Susan, you’re either a racist or a sexist; please pick one or the other and kindly move on…
the true theme of the lib/dems.....think and vote their way or your are a racist/sexist.....
this election ~ there will be hordes of racist/sexist republicans according to the lib/dems and the msm!!!
"Hey Conservatives.....we KNOW you'll vote for McCain even though your party is the GOP....you are a SLAVE to IDENTITY POLITICS and you'll do as the party elders tell you to do."
The lady sounds as fed up as a number of conservatives here on Free Republic (self included) do about the GOP.
Personally I think it would be great if all Americans would end the death grip both political parties have on our process.
A majority of RATS are not the moonbat type. They are "normal" people who do understand how INSANE it is putting a nobody with zero experience in as leader of the greatest nation on the face of the earth, especially during these trying times.
Maybe Hillary can do the "smart enough skit" next time she is on SNL..
Can’t speak for dems, don’t consider them sane on any level.
However, while we are at war and our heroes are in danger we cannot indulge ourselves by withholding our vote and risking an obambi CinC.
From the very first attack on our troops in Lebanon till this moment, our signs of weakness have wrought hell on earth and we cannot allow the evil to gain in strength.
Eh... what's that?
I thought it said "You de-ride."
Nevermind!
Nice try ComputerGuy, but the Socialist party DID nominate a woman ... welllll ... a black metro man is just about, ain't it?
No wonder Sacha is insensed ... she thought her woman would have a vagina.
Your views are equally as valid as anyone's on this forum. Keep in mind, as a suggestion, that this is a "conservative" forum and not necessarily a Republican Party forum. That is just a suggestion that will hopefully keep you from getting into some of the many "flame wars" that seem to permeate the forum these days.
Personally I don't diminish the right of any citizen to cast their votes as they see fit, nor do I attempt to change minds.
I am not as concerned as many, extolling the virtues of voting for the "lessor of two evils argument, of an Obama Presidency. The Executive Branch is only one of three equal branches.
What I am, just FYI, is very tired of the death grip the two corrupt major political parties have on our process.
I am also an old (relatively speaking) and very tired ex-stalwart of the GOP. No longer. I have finally taken George Washington's warnings about allegiances to political parties (in his farewell address to the Republic) to heart and will vote for the individual that comes the closest to representing my "Constitutionally Conservative" beliefs.
John McCain doesn't fit that profile, unfortunately.
Again, I take no issue with you nor your planned vote. It is the only capital any of us have in our political process.
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