Posted on 10/20/2012 5:41:16 PM PDT by chessplayer
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:
“And so we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ And they brought us whole binders full of women.”
Yes!!!!!!! With one bound, Obama was unbound! Romney had just made the worst presidential-debate gaffe since Gerald Ford declared there was no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. In the previous weeks, Obama had attempted to have a serious conversation with the citizenry, as befits the electoral process of a mature republic. He had raised the critical questions of our time — free contraceptives for middle-aged coeds, the outrageous right-wing Muppophobic assault on Big Bird — but the public had failed to bite. Now, in one fatal error, Romney had handed him the winning issue: binders!
HUH??
Romney had just made the biggest gaffe in Presidential Debate since Ford??
WTF??
This and Big Bird. What a great campaign strategy.
Apparently, sarcasm is lost on you. Is this the first time you’ve read Steyn?
Yep, its bindergate!
Mark Shields just said (on Inside Washington) that Hillary is the most popular woman of all time. ???!!
Don’t feel bad (if you are feeling bad). I showed this article to a professor of political science and Mark Steyn’s sarcasm was lost on her too.
Be still my beating heart..I love him so!
BRILLIANT article.
And Romnesia!
Choose wisely.
I'm sure there are Yahoo Polls to prove it...
In fact she jumped in on this first thing ~ 6am EST before even saying HI to the viewers. It was great entertainment. She kept on trying to get the others to agree but they just told her it was silly.
Then Joe read an email sent in to the program :"Back off guys, Mika is relevant", best laugh watching TV in a while.
I am soooo stealing that. BTT.
“Keep your Averys off our ovaries”
She apparently doesn’t think women should be bookish!
Romney had just made the biggest gaffe in Presidential Debate since Ford??
WTF??
"Sarcasm's a foreign language to you, eh, Pumbaa?"
I believe he was being facetious in his reply.
Ha!
Obama had a book of resumes himself... All Muslim. Chicago Tribune story from 2009.
Really? If his post was sardonic, he needs to work on his delivery.
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