'Unbecoming' Candidate in Taxachusetts (Sexism!)

NewsMax ^ | 10/31/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Desperate Democrats have long played the race card. In Taxachusetts, they're now playing the gender card.

During a debate Tuesday night, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mitt Romney chided his Democrat opponent, Shannon O'Brien, for her "unbecoming" attacks on him. Now she and her underlings are raising a big stink by charging sexism.

"I certainly think that he wouldn't have used the term 'unbecoming' if he were speaking about a male opponent," she claimed.

But the word is gender-neutral, Romney noted. He pointed out uses such as the military phrase "conduct unbecoming of an officer."

"When somebody does something which is not the kind of manners I would have expected, that's the word I would apply to a man or a woman," Romney said.

On Brit Hume's panel of pundits on Fox News Channel this evening, even National Pinko Radio's Mara Liasson agreed that O'Brien was trying to exploit a non-issue for partisan gain.

In most states O'Brien's whining would backfire, but remember, this is the place that repeatedly fails to unseat Teddy "Manslaughter" Kennedy and Barney "Page Boy" Frank.

[Hugin]

It's very unbecoming when Democrats are so niggardly with their common sense.

[Diogenesis]

If memory serves, O'Brien who is a hussy, smirking,
kind of gal who rewards her father's pol-friends
with double-dipping pensions, had nothing of substance
to say so she called Romney a liar.

He called her conduct unbecoming, and when the
Senator from NY arrived the next day, she purported that
Romney allegedly called OBrien unbecoming.

[yonif]

I voted Mitt Romney!

[fight_truth_decay]

Shannon O'Brien "siezed up" on that word and had it echoed today by Hillary sitting beside her..was great fun to watch! Desperation calls for desperate measures. Wellstone's Memorial Service was "UNBECOMING" by the Democrats.

[Lurking2Long]

"Niggardly"!

Racism, racism, everybody, quick, come see the racist poster...!

(Tongue firmly in cheek)

[Diogenesis]

[Texas_Jarhead]

He said he learned that phrase and its use from the phrase, "behavior unbecoming of an officer" which has no gender component. the RAT chick must be desperate for anything.

[beGlad]

Dang! That was my first thought!

[Diogenesis]

Desperate and then some. Last month she lost 1.5 billion in Massachusetts pension funds.
It took Arafat years to steal that much money.

O'Brien also said she was responsible for Clinton
who appears nearly each week for her.

[NYS_Eric]

This reminds me so much of the Lazio/Shrillary debate in 2000, where the Democrats screamed for days after that Lazio was "in her face" and trying to intimidate a lady. Apparently, since the charge of picking on a woman seemed to play to the sheeple then, the Massachusetts RATs are trying it out themselves.

[oldironsides]

Shannon said she would sign a bill arriving at her desk for a man to marry a man if she gets the chief executive job in Massachusetts. I can just hear my Democrat relatives now saying "Jesus, Mary and Joseph"

[TomGuy]

Mz O'Brien should invest in a dictionary.

from dictionary.com.

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3 entries found for unbecoming.

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un·be·com·ing   Pronunciation Key  (nb-kmng)
adj.

1. Not appropriate, attractive, or flattering: an unbecoming dress.
2. Not in accord with the standards implied by one's character or position: conduct unbecoming an officer. See Synonyms at improper.

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unbe·coming·ly adv.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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unbecoming

\Un`be*com"ing\, a. [Pref. un- not + becoming.] Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.

My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. --Dryden. -- Un`be*com\"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com\"ing*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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unbecoming

adj 1: considered inappropriate for or unattractive on a particular person; "an unbecoming style" 2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University

[July 4th]

She's unbecoming and ugly.

[mombonn]

I saw the segment on Fox News. If this is the best the RATS can come up with, they're more ridiculous than when Lazio "intimidated" hillary.

[jackbill]

Frankly, I am getting damned sick and tired of women who are running for office being "offended" by comments by their opposition. We saw it in the Lazio-Clinton race, we have seen it in the Ehrlich-Townsend race and now it's in the Romney-O'Brien race. If the bitches want to play, let them play on an even playing field.

[fight_truth_decay]

Romney's the one: A leader for Mass. A Boston Herald editorial Thursday, October 31, 2002 "Difficult economic times require a special brand of leader, one with a vision of what can be, one not bound to the old ways, not weighed down with special-interest baggage, and yet one with a set of basic values that don't change over time or with the political winds. Mitt Romney is that kind of leader, the kind of leader Massachusetts needs as governor right now." sounds like an endorsement

[cynwoody]

O'Brien's counting on the stupid electorate here in Taxachusetts to buy her quack lexicography!

Romney is of course totally correct about the military use of the word. Ever heard of Article 133 of the UCMJ, "Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman"? This usage predates the advent of women in the military by a large number of decades! The phrase was coined in a totally male environment. Evidently, they still haven't got around to changing "gentleman", now that women can serve.

Check out this list of the articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. How many others do you think might apply to Shannon O'Brien and the rest of the 'Rats on Beacon Hill?

[San Jacinto]

It's very unbecoming when Democrats are so niggardly with their common sense.

Yes, I find that very queer.

[DBrow]

She probably added to what Romney said, in her mind- he said, "unbecoming", and she added "unbecoming for a lady" because that is what she'd expect a male Mormon to say.

"Everyone knows" that's what Mormons think, or so she thinks.

So he's sexist because of what she thinks, donchagetit? He is the sexist one doing inappropriate profiling and stereotyping.

The nonracist, nonsexist Boston Globe picked up on what O'brien heard (not what Romney said) and ran with it on Page One.