Stop Calling Them Sluts

Daily Beast ^ | November 1, 2010 | Mark McKinnon

[Al B.]

O’Donnell likes nights on the town, Palin is a clotheshorse, Angle is “crazy,” Whitman is a “whore”—conservative women are being attacked from all sides, but voters will reward the victims at the polls, says Mark McKinnon.

Nuts and sluts, bitches and whores: That’s the gauntlet conservative women must run to compete for the “honor” of political office today.

While every campaign season is deemed more vicious than those that came before, the attacks this time around have reached a new low. Rather than debate ideas and policies, weak-minded opponents of strong-willed women resort to sexualized attacks—a cover to compensate for their own inadequacies.

Those who hoot and holler, cheering from the sidelines, and those who enable the abuse with their silent acceptance, are as complicit in the rape of reputation as those who spew the vitriol.

By choosing to step forward to serve the public good, women who are wives, mothers, and daughters are called crazy, loony, and mentally unstable. Conservative women who dare to run for office are simultaneously attacked as sleazy and prudish. Phony reports of illicit affairs are leaked online, where the damage can never be undone. Their sex lives and the parentage of their children are called into question.

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

[Al B.]

Knock me over with a feather.

[Candor7]

[Al B.]

Ping! Read the whole thing from Mark McKinnon in the Daily Beast of all places.

[FrankR]

This name calling thing is nothing new, but a media who dwells in the gutter is why it is becoming so common.

[ncalburt]

Fraud Austin leftist / former Ann Richard employee Leftist Mark Mckinnon thinks he is fooling someone here.

This is a Dem operative who allowed his leftist employee access to the Bush debate tapes and she handing them over to Gore.

This left wing fraud has the never to peddle himself as a Gop insider.
This scum left the McCain camp because he was backing Obama !

Believe nothing from this snake.

[humblegunner]

Stop Calling Them Sluts

Obligatory Slut Ping.

[Al B.]

No doubt he is a Leftist and an Obama supporter. Interestingly, he helped prep Sarah Palin for the VP debate with Biteme.

[muawiyah]

Not to worry. The MSM into calling women names are the sort who must strap on a small dildo to impress their own females back home ~ and being Democrats they are easily impressed of course.

[Popman]

Rather than debate ideas and policies, weak-minded opponents of strong-willed women resort to sexualized attacks—a cover to compensate for their own inadequacies.

Wow, that's going to leave mark

Democrats exposing democrats for small penis syndrome

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

So even McKinnon is now gagging on his pals’ excesses, eh?

[Larry Lucido]

Obligatory Slut Ping.

I've always wanted to meet an obligatory slut!

[Viking2002]

'Nuts and sluts, bitches and whores'

Talk about putting my love life (18-34) in a nutshell. Ah, but there were the good times........*sigh*........most of which wouldn't make it past the content filters here, if ya get my drift. *wink* *wink*

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Colvin]

Interesting read in the comments. All very defensive, and a lot of hatred for the author.

A prophet is despised in his own town.

[buschbaby]

....."I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office."

I think about this all the time. I also would not want any male relative to go through the slime that is American politics. I can remember not so many years ago telling my son he could be President, now I would beg my children to never run.