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The Great Binder Blunder
National Review ^ | 10/19/12 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/19/2012 2:51:14 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan

So the other morning a reader e-mails me a picture of a handful of women demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Ohio Republican party — in what we expert analysts round about this point in the quadrennial election cycle like to call the critical battleground of the Buckeye State. The women each wore two giant pieces of cardboard, front and back. Ah, I thought, a timely protest. These activists understand that, with Obama’s flatline economy drifting inexorably to a $20 trillion federal debt, we’ll soon be living in cardboard shacks in shantytowns in the parking lot of the bankrupt Solyndra factory. Or it’s what they’ll be using for the x-ray plates at your local hospital once the Obamacare rationing kicks in. Or maybe it’s the perfect visual metaphor for the flimsiness of U.S.-government security at its Middle Eastern embassies before the “Death to the Great Satan!” crowd punched through the compound like so much soggy cardboard.

But no. The women were chanting “Equal rights, not binders,” and they were protesting the following remarks by Mitt Romney at the presidential debate:

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KEYWORDS: 2012debates; binders; blunders; marksteyn; steyn
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1 posted on 10/19/2012 2:51:17 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan
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To: trappedincanuckistan

So lame. Women aren’t stupid although the left apparently thinks their concubines are.


2 posted on 10/19/2012 2:53:29 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: trappedincanuckistan

So Romney had a binder of women’s resumes. What’s the big deal? If he had one of men would the media think he was gay?


3 posted on 10/19/2012 2:55:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Thought Mitt handled the comment pretty well. What’s the beef with the binder comment?


4 posted on 10/19/2012 2:55:15 PM PDT by ptsal (E)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

These dipstick Dem dames are due for an oil check! They are one quart short of functional.


5 posted on 10/19/2012 2:56:26 PM PDT by miserare
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To: trappedincanuckistan

If Obama thinks the binder thing is a big deal, he’s seriously lacking in ammo....

Good grief, who cares...


6 posted on 10/19/2012 2:56:41 PM PDT by Professional
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To: ptsal

“Thought Mitt handled the comment pretty well. What’s the beef with the binder comment?”

It was not optimal.


7 posted on 10/19/2012 2:56:41 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: trappedincanuckistan
Far from being a blunder, it is what the axelrod grease machine has successfully used to divert attention from the absolute treason of Obama & co lying about their abject failure to meet the '3AM phonecall' on Benghazi and instead floating a lie for two weeks. The binder flimflam is more proof that the media will do anything the DNC instructs them to do, even commit journalistic suicide to defend their little barry bastard boy drug-addled degenerate commie.
8 posted on 10/19/2012 2:57:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

I don’t get the hoopla. So Romney has binders with resumes, why is that a bad thing? Doesn’t that just mean he is considering women for jobs?

Liberals are so ignorant.


9 posted on 10/19/2012 2:57:50 PM PDT by madison10
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To: OpusatFR

“So the other morning a reader e-mails me a picture of a handful of women demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Ohio Republican party”

Not saying anything about women in general, but obviously....


10 posted on 10/19/2012 2:57:54 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: OpusatFR
Women aren't stupid

Some are. Women in my family think and have said they want Michelle Obama to run for POTUS in 2016. When asked, they could not name one qualification. But they still want her to be president. TO be fair, there are stupid men also. And there is certainly no shortage of them in my family.

11 posted on 10/19/2012 2:58:52 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: SkyDancer

Let’s not drag bath house Barry into this.


12 posted on 10/19/2012 2:59:51 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Desparation.


13 posted on 10/19/2012 3:00:37 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: MHGinTN

Amen. This binder thing is an Obama/media constructed controversy meant to distract people from the Libya thing. Obama knows he trapped himself the other night.


14 posted on 10/19/2012 3:01:26 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: longfellow

Ooopsie -


15 posted on 10/19/2012 3:01:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church shows up at your funeral)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

PC requires employers to have binders full of women then complains when they have binders full of women.


16 posted on 10/19/2012 3:03:08 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: trappedincanuckistan

How many binders of women do you suspect Bill Clinton kept in his office?


17 posted on 10/19/2012 3:04:00 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: OpusatFR

I work with a Jewish female lawyer. Guess what her Halloween costume is going to be?


18 posted on 10/19/2012 3:04:05 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow

Ann Romney?

Please don’t tell me Gloria (I would chase an ambulance, but being paid by the DNC is easier) Alred?


19 posted on 10/19/2012 3:07:41 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: longfellow

Michelle Obama?


20 posted on 10/19/2012 3:09:27 PM PDT by madison10
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