Posted on 01/06/2012 5:17:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“Is sexism to blame for the MN Congresswoman’s decline in popularity?”
No, her mouth is.
“Many Christian Right leaders and the voters who dominate the primary in Iowa preach women’s submission”
Really, Cliffy?
I mean, REALLY????
No, it was her gaffes. She was right on the issues, but embarrassments like her Elvis gaffe made it difficult to even defend, much less support her.
Why even raise the question?
How does Cliff describe/reference Michelle Obama? Oh; to find those quotes. . . no doubt they w.ill not resemble anything found in this story
Hilarious.
Al Jazeera?????
Really, dude?
Her gaffes were minor compared to those of B. Obama and the members of his administration. M. Bachmann did well in debates.
Looks like Al Jazz has hired a liberal journalism grad to explain the reasons why the GOP is sexist. Seems to me it wasn’t gender, but a spectrum of other issues...
It doesn’t matter. She left with poise and respect. I think now we need to support her on the reelection to the House. One thing is for sure. We need her badly in the House. It would be a shame to lose her in the House because she wasn’t great at running for President.....she is great in the House.
Not only that, but Islam and the Left both have such good records on sexism.
Show me one male politician EVER referred to as “googly-eyed”. EVER. Makes me so mad I could spit.
This author had a website in 2008 dedicated to showing what a radical right wing extremist John McCain was. That should tell you where he’s coming from.
There are two things that I believe worked to her disadvantage.
First, I think the electorate is very suspicious of people in politics who say, repeatedly, ad infinitum, over and over, and then say it again, that "I am not a politician." It sounds very disingenuous to tell people that you are not a politician when that is precisely what you seem to have been called to do. Own it. We don't dislike politicians per se. We despise those who practice on the dark side of that art.
Second, speaking of art, every politician has a stump speech. They have a message that they or their advisors have determined is what they need to get out. So, they repeat things over and over, hoping that the message will stick. The best at the political arts are able to get that message across without sounding like they have a few programmed response lines recorded in their voice box. For whatever reason, that is what she sounded like. A Chatty Cathy doll with a string you pull and pre-recorded sentences come out.
That probably sounds unfair, especially since I firmly believe that she is a person with serious depth and intellect, but, for whatever reason--fatigue, bad advice, who knows-- her language seldom rose above the level of platitude. Thus her speeches and her response to questions sounded more like robo-calls than live language.
One of the reasons I was glad Sarah Palin did not run is because she has the same platitude problem (with some syntactical disorder thrown in.) Like Michele she is very smart, very passionate and I would happily vote for her if she were the nominee. Frankly, Romney and Perry suffer from the same malady.
The only two candidates (IMHO) who don't seem to speak in perpetual platitudes are Gingrich and Santorum. They do say the same things over and over but it does not always seems so. (Happily Newt has gotten over his "Callista and I" verbal tick.)
We don't need platitudes. We need serious solutions from serious candidates with their brains fully engaged. Obama speaks in platitudes but as the last election demonstrated, he is so good at it that too many people failed to notice they were hearing empty phrases.
Al Jazeera combating sexism has as much credibility as Planned Parenthood combating abortion.
I couldn't believe it myself...pathetic
i’m depressed she didn’t work out.
She has some good ideas and i like her positions on a lot of things.
Also, we haven’t elected ANYONE with just “House member” on their government resume since 1860. Everyone else has been a governor, general, senator or vice president or combination of those things.
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