Yesterday Al Gore endorsed Obama, and McCain had to back away from a fundraiser hosted by a sexist and thoroughly discredited politician Clayton Williams. To top it off, McCain tried to claim his people knew nothing about Williams’ notorious claim that rape was like the weather, so women should just sit back and enjoy it since they cannot fight it.
Everyone who followed politics back in 1990 heard about this statement. This is a bold faced lie by McCain that his peeps were ignorant of Williams’ comment. For crying out loud, he made it in the heat of the Texas Gubernatorial race that he lost to the extremely popular Ann Richards! Of course his people knew about it.
In case there were any Hillary supporters contemplating McCain, this episode should permanently dissuade them from such nonsense. The Republican Party, John McCain, and Clayton Williams, do not support women or care about their issues.
On the day that Al Gore, successful former Vice President, Nobel Prize Winner, Oscar winner, and leading advocate for fighting climate disruption, endorses Obama, John McCain has to back away from a supporter/fundraiser who claimed women should enjoy rape.
Can the difference be any clearer?
And yet the chattering class does not think this is a big deal nor want to make much of an issue about it. To keep this devastating chasm in the limelight, progressives and Democrats have to force the media to cover it. The difficulty lies in the fact that Obama cannot be seen as harping on this too much, lest he appear to be going negative. However, there are some great progressive female surrogates who can drive this embarrassing episode into the public consciousness. This treads a very fine line between being a legitimate issue and crass politicalization, but it has to be done.
At the least, make the point clear to wavering Democrats that McCain, who will not return the money Williams has raised for him, should be utterly unacceptable to anyone who even moderately considers themselves modern and progressive. Heck, McCain’s refusal to back away completely from Williams is not even acceptable to people who consider themselves agreeable to the basic moral standards of the 20th century. Taking that money essentially endorses Williams’ viewpoints.
Even if he returns the money, Williams’ comments show the moral core and attitudes of many of the Republican Party. Who do you want representing the country, someone who bumps shoulders with Clayton Williams, or someone who bumps shoulders with Al Gore?
That is the choice this November.
Firstly, beyond Texas, Williams’ salt-soaked tongue didn’t register much on the news meter. Secondly, Obama is a Democrat hack from south Chicago, a political paraiste that wormed his way up through the “machine” Daly and the mob put in place long ago. I don’t doubt that McCain is crud (politician, after all), but you actually defend Barry Husein O’, that slippery ***** from the ****-**** “realpolik”? Amusing… dumb, but amusing.
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Left by Rex Lewis Field on June 26th, 2008