The John McCain Female Woman Haters Club

Update (11/9/08): I’m pleased to say that with the votes counted, I can demonstrate that most women in the United States of America who voted on November 4, did not fall for the Palin pander. Here are the stats.

Margin of Victory Among Women Voters

Women made up 53% of voters this year. Among that 53%, 56% voted for Obama, 13% more than voted for John McCain.

Update (11/5/08): With the election of Barack Obama to the United States Presidency successfully concluded, I am hereby closing the doors on the John McCain Female Woman Hater’s Club.  There will be no more inductees. However, keep your eye on this post because should any of these women in light of McCain’s recent defeat, come to their senses and declare their return to the ranks of self respecting women, I shall release them from their incarceration here.

If I see one more woman stumping for John McCain on TV, I think I’m gonna hurl. I’ve already expressed my great disappointment with these women who don’t seem to know a misogynist when they see one. I am now inaugurating The John McCain Female Woman Haters Club (named after The Little Rascals He-Man Woman Haters Club). Each time I see another woman publically displaying her ignorance of John McCain’s disdain for her and her kind, I shall add them to this Log of Shame. Should any of these women ever see the light, I shall remove them and congratulate them for being a proper role model for young girls throughout this great nation.

Our first three inductees are:

Carly Fiorina

Update (9/22): In an incredible show of unjustified hubris, Carly Fiorina declared that no one on either party’s ticket could run a corporation. This coming from a woman who was fired for botching her job as CEO of Hewlett Packard. It might also be noted she left HP with a very golden parachute, a crime made all the more odious by our current national financial crisis. It is with great glee that I report to you that Carly will not be heard from again for the remainder of the election season. Pride goeth before the fall, Carly. May your struggle to find new work be as difficult as that of the many HP employees you laid off before your own demise.

Jill Hazelbaker

Nicolle Wallace

Other inductees:

Elizabeth Hasselbeck

Heidi Harris

Darragh Murphy

Darragh Murphy, a leader of PUMA PAC is the worst kind of Female Woman Hater in that she hides behind devotion to Hillary as her reason for opposing Obama. If you want to be sickened to your stomach, watch this video from MSNBC’s Hardball.

Brooke Buchanan

Diane Mantouvalos

Nancy Pfotenhauer

Barbara Comstock

Shelly Mandell

Amy Holmes

Update 11/2:As we approach Election-eve, I doubt I will be admitting too many more inductees to our Club. Looks like Any Holmes made it in right under the wire. If there is one thing more confounding than a female supporter of John McCain, it is a black female supporter of John McCain. Not only is Amy clueless about McCain’s misogyny, she doesn’t seem to know that McCain consistently opposed the Martin Luther King holiday.

If anyone has any other candidates for this Log of Shame, please comment or e-mail me with the name and relationship to the McCain campaign.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell (Me That You’re a Total Idiot)

There is a juvenile quality to all prejudice but no prejudice in this country appears so juvenile as homophobia. Jon Stewart devoted a segment to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy on a recent edition of The Daily Show.

Among the congressional witnesses on display is one Elaine Donnelly who truly appears to be a horse’s ass. I’ll let Stewart’s piece speak for itself but the bottom line is: isn’t it time we all grew up and got over it?

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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Age Before Beauty

From the desk of The Rigorist

When competing teams first meet there is the handshake to establish the common ground of sportsmanship. When the salesmen of competing businesses first meet they usually attempt to find common ground in their common humanity and their common frustrations.  So here I am trying to make a good first impression.  I start with a joke and I look through the news for something to beat up McCain with.

There is nothing there.  The closest I can find is a breakthrough Alzheimer’s treatment.

When I dig deeper I find that he doesn’t have cancer.   I search wider to learn that he’s trying to show independence and he is an “unabashed” conservative.  Big whoop. Like I haven’t known that he was independent and shameless since he hooked up with John Edwards for that patient’s rights bill in ‘01.

McCain has got to be the slowest moving target on the political freeway.  Any conservative position he takes is a flip-flop and any liberal one is redundant.  He’s stuck.  His free range maverick ways now leave him mud sucked, unable to move left or right.  His sole attraction for the Republicans is he didn’t actually obstruct President Bush’s policies on Iraq or Afghanistan.  The number of attractions he presents Democrats challenge enumeration.

It is to McCain’s ironic misfortune that Democrats emote rather than think.  The voters he should be able to rely upon cannot consider him.  Entranced with Barack Obama’s looks and kindness and vigor, they are unconflicted while rejecting John Kerry’s partner on CAFE standards, Paul Sarbanes‘ backer on corporate oversight, Senator Charles Robb’s cosponsor for military base closings, Lieberman’s across-the-aisle buddy on global warming and Ted Kennedy’s on immigration reform.  Democrats are unmindful, a sadly accurate adjective, while abandoning the Senator that stood with them against President Bush’s tax cuts, federal embryonic stem cell research funding bans, and Supreme Court nominees.

A jilted McCain must turn away from the spectacle of Democrats swooning over their latest everlasting love d’jour and face Republicans unimpressed with his cleverness.  The media that called him ‘Darling’ has tossed him aside to chase a younger, more slender tart with an easy smile and vacant eyes.  Oh, the heart break of it all.

It puts a grin on my face, but I’m cold like that.

The only thing left for McCain or the Republicans is to calculate the proposed cost of Obama’s excesses and track the many dangerously dumb ideas Obama has had in order to scare people into voting for the dead guy.

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Reading Between the Lines of the Williams-Ahmadinejad Interview

From the desk of The Rigorist

MSNBC Nightly News : ‘Response … will be a positive one’

Somebody at MSNBC has got to be smart enough to know what actually got said in this interview. Still, the polit-speak surrounding the meaning was so thick they thought they could tack a headline on it that would make Obama look good. Who’s got boots tall enough to slog though this? Who would waste their time collecting this rank fruit?

I do. I would.

Point / Counterpoint

Have you ever noticed how predictable the political slant is of most blogs? I’m as guilty as the rest. You know if you read my blog, you’re likely to get a liberal perspective. You might also notice if you read the comments posted to my blog that you’ll get the conservative reaction.

I have decided to mix things up a bit and I have invited one of my most frequent “commenters”, Ecclesiastes, to join The Rutherford Lawson Blog as guest contributor. Henceforth, you can look forward to contributions from him that no doubt run 180 degrees counter to my own opinions. But that is the whole point.

Rather than provide detailed biographies, I think he and I both prefer to reveal ourselves through our posts. You can fill in the blanks from there (and I’ve been amused at some of the blanks that have been mistakenly filled in by some readers already).

I hope you enjoy the variety of opinion you will find here and I urge you to jump into the fray with your own views!

Respectfully,
Rutherford

The Surge: Premature Joculation

Much has been made lately of Barack Obama’s refusal to admit that the surge has worked. Even the liberal MSM has questioned why Obama won’t give McCain his props for supporting such a great military strategy.

What am I missing here? We are not even at pre-surge troop levels yet and the oft cited reduction in violence has not had much time to endure. In fact, just today three female suicide bombers struck Baghdad and another struck Kirkuk killing and wounding loads of innocent citizens. We won’t even go into the fact that the goal of the surge, to provide Maliki’s government some air cover while they get their act together, has not yet been completely achieved.

It’s way too early to celebrate, folks, and Barack is right to not ring the victory bell too loudly. That McCain is making the “successful surge” one of his talking points should be no surprise. He’s part and parcel of an administration that declared “mission accomplished” before sending thousands more young American men and women to die.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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Can You Spot the POTUS?

Sit back and let me take you on a flight of fancy.

Imagine Bobby. Bobby has been in a coma for the past nine years. When he awakes, as far as he knows the President of the United States is Bill Clinton. We tell him that is no longer the case but rather than tell him who the current President is, we try a little experiment with him. We play Bobby two sets of video and then ask him who he thinks the President might be.

Video 1: “What do you see, Bobby?”
“Mmmm, well, I see a middle aged tall black man. Looks like he’s talking to the head of Afghanistan. OK, now he’s talking with Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq. Mmmm, he’s shaking hands with Bebe Netanyahu in Israel. Oh, look now he’s talking with Andrea Merkel in Germany. Wow! Look at that crowd in Berlin that he’s talking to! Wait a minute, is he in a press conference with the President of France? OK, I’ve seen enough. I know who the current President is.”

“Hold on Bobby! We’ve got another set of videos to show you.”

Video 2: “Bobby, now what do you see?”
“Ah that’s sweet. Looks like a retired guy going golfing. Hey is that George H. W. Bush he’s golfing with? Wow, real nice of the former President to take that old guy golfing with him. Ah, ok now we see this same guy grocery shopping. Looks like he’s a grandpa shopping with the family. He seems to have a preference for cheese. Oh what’s this? Ah, now the old guy is having a nice lunch at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus and Restaurant. It sure is nice to see this fella enjoying his retirement: heck, golfing, grocery shopping with the family and a nice leisurely lunch. Ehhh, one question. Why are you showing me this video clip of this retiree?”

OK, flight of fancy over. Now I ask you. Isn’t it hard to believe that McCain has put someone new in charge of the campaign?

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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A Final Plea to Women Voters

By now I should think that every half way intelligent politically minded woman in this country has read that John McCain publically called his wife a c**t. So it astounds me when I see the likes of Carly Fiorina and Jill Hazelbaker stumping for him. What self respecting woman would do this?

I think I finally figured out that it’s not an issue of self respect. It’s a simple issue of intelligence. You see, when conservative women read that John McCain called his wife a c**t, they make the following translations:

John McCain called his wife a cast.

John McCain called his wife a cart.

John McCain called his wife a cant.

John McCain called his wife a cent.

John McCain called his wife a cyst.

Now I know that no woman, even if she lacks self respect, would vote for a man who would demean her mother or her sister or her daughter. No woman would support a man who thinks it’s funny that her daughter. mother or sister would enjoy being raped by a gorilla. Therefore, as a service to conservative women everywhere, let me spell it out for you.

John McCain called his wife a C-U-N-T.

Now, please vote accordingly.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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Sigmund Freud and Larry Craig

Watch the following comments by Idaho Senator Larry Craig and then tell me that Sigmund Freud would not have had a field day analyzing him.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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Jesse Jackson and How to be Black in America

I’ve said from the start that Barack Obama’s candidacy is good for America if for no other reason than that it gives us a good excuse to have some frank conversations about race in this country. The recent “hot mike” remarks made by Jesse Jackson highlight at least two interesting topics regarding how blacks should conduct themselves in this society.

The first issue is whether or not blacks should castigate other blacks in front of whites. When I watched excerpts of Barack Obama’s “Father’s Day” speech, I must confess to some discomfort. While I fully agreed with Obama’s call for responsibility among black men, I wondered to myself when have we ever seen a white politician telling deadbeat white dads to get their act together on national television? All I could do was picture a bunch of good ‘ole boys watching his speech and saying “yep, even the colored guy knows how lazy and shiftless his colored brothers are. Heck, if he’s saying it, it must be true.” I have struggled with my feelings about this. It smacks of airing dirty laundry outside the “family”. On the other hand, how do we fix problems in any community if we don’t discuss them? When Bill Cosby gave the same message not long ago, I didn’t think twice about it. Perhaps it was because he is an entertainer. Obama is auditioning for leader of the free world, and President of ALL Americans so perhaps I’m upset to see him singling out one group for admonishment? In any case, Jesse’s comments resonated with me on a certain level. Yet I’m not comfortable about it.

The second issue involved Jesse’s use of the “N” word during his whispered comments about Obama’s social perspective. This prompted a heated debate on “The View”, a show that I don’t typically  look to for intellectual stimulation. However the following dialog is worth discussing. (The video is a bit long but ultimately worth it.)

Who should use the “N” word? Absolutely no one! In this face off on The View I was astounded to find myself at first on the same side as the too-young-to-know-better conservative Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Sheree Shepherd and Whoopi Goldberg’s old argument about how “owning” the word somehow disinfects it is just so much horse manure. The word is hateful and has no place in public or private discourse. But the argument does take an interesting turn when Hasselbeck suggests that “we all live in the same world.” To this, Whoopi angrily pointed out that life for blacks and whites in this country is not the same. Hasselbeck, who more often than not comes off like a spoiled brat who lucked into a reality show and a football player husband, was dumbfounded (and outright hurt) by Whoopi’s reaction. Sadly, Hasselbeck naively believes that her Utopian view of the world is reality. For this she badly needed a wake up call from Goldberg. Whoopi’s only mistake is in thinking that the way we deal with our lot in this country is to “take ownership” of words that demean us.

As I expected, Obama’s candidacy is sparking debate among blacks and whites about racial politics in America. More interestingly, a road map is being drawn for how to conduct oneself as a black in 21st century society. Are we truly in a post-racial period? If so, then blacks criticizing blacks in a public forum might be completely appropriate and part of that criticism ought to be the complete and utter rejection of the “N” word.

Respectfully,
Rutherford

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