Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Trashing Conservative Women

Since winning the Delaware primary, Christine O'Donnell has become the nation's best-known candidate. That's not a good thing, not when things you did in high school and views you had in your early 20s suddenly become part of late-night comedy routines. Granted the right has piled onto some of the Obama administration but these have been political appointees and it is their political statements that have been the subject of controversy (Van Jones).

Over a decade ago O'Donnell said that masturbation was the same as adultery. Back in 1976, Nobel-prize-winner and former president Jimmy Carter said that he had committed adultery many times by simply looking at a woman with lust in his heart.

At the age that O'Donnell was denouncing self-love, her opponent wrote about becoming a "Bearded Marxist". As far as I know neither Leno nor Stewart has picked up on that.

The national attack on O'Donnell reminds me a lot of the attack two years ago on Sarah Palin. Both are fairly young and attractive and both hold values that are radically different from the hard left. In both cases the left has used the "politics of personal destruction" to attack the person instead of the platform. Compared with the attacks on Palin, the attacks on O'Donnell have been fairly light. At least no one has accused her of faking a pregnancy.

Still, there is a message there for Republican women - if the Democrats think that they can benefit from it then they will savage you mercilessly from coast to coast. Does anyone else find this creepy?

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