So, I’ve been following all the stories today, and it seems that the Republicans have found their inner sensitivity, their deep belief in feminism, their softer side. Really, as someone who has fought for women’s rights her whole life, mostly against the same assholes who are whining today, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. So instead, I’m helping other folks in my neighborhood organize voters for Obama. Here in Colorado, a major swing state this year, that’s important work. And it keeps me from throwing things at the TV.

Over at dailyKos, brownsox makes a clear refutation to Mike Huckabee’s claim that the right never said terrible things about Chelsea Clinton. Hannity claimed it recently too, saying he could not remember any thing rude being said about Clinton then. But brownsox missed the column that angered and disgusted me most of all, written in 2001 by John Derbyshire at NRO, who, after admitting he hated Chelsea Clinton, said this: Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint; and though not prosecutable in law, in custom and nature the taint cannot be ignored. All the great despotisms of the past

Without further comment, I present this bit from MSNBC’s First Read. Palin backed abstinence-only education By the way, as has been pointed out, Palin backed abstinence-only education during her 2006 gubernatorial race. In an Eagle Forum Alaska questionnaire, Palin gave this response to the following question: Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools? Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.

Clearly in choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate, McCain has successfully rounded up the WTF? vote. I don’t think many pro-choice women are going to go for a fully anti-Roe ticket, but I’ve never understood the Clinton supporters who turned to McCain. Update: Ah, nevermind. That was ‘shopped.

That’s Cindy McCain talking about the two condos the McCains own in California. Seems the kids used the first one so much she didn’t get to use it as much as she wanted, so she bought a second one nearby. That’s taken from an interview in Vogue that she gave last spring, dug out by Talking Point Memo’s Election Central. I’ve been sitting here all afternoon trying to remember where I’d read that quote, so I appreciate that they found it. “When I bought the first one, my husband, who is not a beach person, said, ‘Oh, this is such … Continue reading →