2008 A Humble Suggestion For Your Post-Hillary Protest Vote
posted by on June 9 at 15:05 PM
[But first, a brief note: Remember when I was leaving the SLOG? Forever? Well, I’m back. Minus the ‘-unpaid intern’ modifier. Thank you to the powers that be, and as Chairman Mao so aptly put it, “Let a thousand flowers bloom.”]
While this weekend may have officially ended Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency, for some the battle still rages. The time invested was too long, the emotional toll was too high, the hours of hard drugs and internet message-board rage too pure: nothing can make them cast a ballot for a woman-hating fanatic like Barack Obama.
Women are expected to only care about abortion - not their self respect.The cries for “Unity” are heard in abundance, in full shout, from those that sowed the seeds of division. However, the seeds of division have borne a bumper crop this year.
Democrats like Obama/Dean/Brazille/Pelosi think they can wave the red flag of ‘Supreme Court’ or ‘Abortion’ and women will come running to the aid of the Democratic? Party and forget the misogyny Obama/Dean/Brazille/Pelosi never spoke against while Hillary and her supporters were belittled and denigrated.
But, why McCain as a protest candidate? If, as many are claiming, the misogyny of the Obama campaign was driving them to vote Republican… wouldn’t it be kind of a hypocritical back flip to vote for a hardened opponent of women’s reproductive rights? A guy who left his previous wife in the midst of crippling medical problems, and who allegedly handed out the following impromptu fashion advice to his present wife during his first run for the Senate in 1992:
“At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt.”
Who knows, maybe her makeup was really badly put on that day. Or maybe Senator McCain was just having a really bad day. But honestly, isn’t it a little discomforting to know that your protest vote is going to a guy who doesn’t seem to respect women all that much? Or, at all?
Which brings me to a kind of suggestion for a Grand Compromise: why not vote third party? Specifically, why not vote for Cynthia McKinney? You’ve already made the decision that you want to put John McCain in the White House, but why not do so carrying the metaphorical trash bag of righteous indignation that voting for the Green Party candidate grants you?
Cynthia McKinney isn’t some humorless leftist like Ralph Nader or Dennis Kucinich, were you know that what they’re saying is probably the right answer, but the hopelessness of the political reality makes it come across as a certain shade of obtuse and sad.
McKinney punches people who get in her way.
McKinney believes firmly that when you cut away the conspiracy, you’ll find Dick Cheney at the bottom of 9/11.
McKinney believes that Al Gore has a deep-seated hatred for the black race.
Does she have the rhetorical flair of a Ron Paul Revolution? Of course she doesn’t, but you can’t expect every political outsider to develop a well-funded cult around them with a flair for Depression-era political theater. What Cynthia McKinney offers is crazy. Crazy in bulk. Crazy in oil tanker-like excess.
The kind of crazy you can believe in. The kind of crazy that justifies a protest vote against Barack Obama.
I must disagree, sir. It only makes sense that angry Hillary supporters who feel their candidate has been treated disrespectfully in the public sphere would cast a protest vote for this man.
Crazy or no, please, only vote for McKinney if you live in a solidly red or blue state!
And it'll prove they're not just against Barack Obama because of race.
People like you deserve people like Bush.
I just don't understand this "logic" at all. Both campaigns denigrated to slinging mud against the other when push came to shove, so it's not exactly as if Hillary's most ardent supporters aren't themselves guilty of that which they would seek to punish.
In the end, can these people, these women, who have come to view any legitimate criticism of their chosen candidate as rampant mysogyny against both her and themselves REALLY feel that voting for McCain, whose mysogyny IS in fact rampant, is in their best interest?
Am I the only one hoping, truly hoping these women represent only a token minority of Clinton's supporters? Because if not, if there are in fact millions of women willing to cut off their collective noses in order to spite their faces, well then, I'm afraid it just acts as confirmation of all the negative stereotypes they claim to find so offensive in the first place.
That's hilarious. But I don't think they could stomach voting for anybody black, even if it was really a vote against Obama.
A disgruntled feminist voting 3rd party makes more sense than voting for McCain. If that makes people happy, then more power to them.
Then again, historically (and stereotypically), feminists and makeup go together like oil and water. Maybe “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt” somehow resonates with the bra-burning crowd?
A vote for McCain is a vote for more back alley abortion clinics!!
If McCain wins, I PRAY she opens up some black bag in her alley and finds an aborted fetus in it; with a young girl crying from the shadows as some "doctor" left the knitting needles in her vagina after the abortion.
I hope she sees that if her behavior let's McCain be President.
Oh, sweet cakes of Jesus, this is beautiful.
That site is basically a dozen people talking amongst themselves. Look at the post names - not a lot of variety. These flat-Earthers will provide some cheap controversy during slow news days, but don't expect them to be a significant voting block.
P.S. Congrats Ryan!!
It's mostly older women. I guess that once menopause hits, some of them just cease to care about Roe v. Wade. Let those ungrateful Obama-supporting patriarchy-worshipping daughters of theirs learn to use a coathanger, eh? Serves 'em right!
These women know that a vote for McCain in 2008 is a vote for Hillary in 2012. They are hearing that loud and clear from the Clinton For President 2012 campaign (which officially launched last weekend). They've waited 8 years, what's 4 more?
There are no "solidly Red" states anymore.
Remember, a vote for McSame is a vote for $8 a gallon gas and even more tax cuts for the ultra-rich while the other 99.9 percent of us get even LESS than today.
Period.
oh ... WELCOME BACK, Ryan!
I think I'll be voting for Cynthia McKinney! Considering either place I vote (Washington or California) will be going for the Big O anyways, and McKinney is just the right amount of crazy, it seems to be the perfect vote for my first ballot cast.
Fucking awesome post, Ryan. Very funny. Obama and Clinton antagonists: calm down. It's over. Move on.
Way to go Ryan.
Hey, so these women who are angry about a female candidate not getting a fair shake ... where were they when Carol Moseley-Braun's campaign fizzled in 2004? Why wasn't there so much wailing and gnashing of teeth about that?
Ryan only gets paid if he remembers to empty the trash and spit shine the Ann Landers desk everyday...
Can someone point me towards a place where I can read examples of Barack's misogynist ways? He's married to a woman that makes Hillary Clinton look like Laura Bush.
Like Hillary, Ryan keeps coming back from the dead to strike again.
A simpler protest vote is just send your donations to Emily's List or May's List instead - 100 percent of the money goes to women running for office ...
A vote for McKinney would be a chance to show that you're not sexist or racist. Also, just because something seems "crazy" to mainstream pundits doesn't mean it's not true. At least she had the guts to do this.
McCain-Sock-Puppets-Posing-As-Bitter-Hillary-Supporters for McKinney! Come join our movement!
#6, I know it's tempting and much easier on the the part of the brain that tries to make sense of the universe to paint these people as simple racists, but frankly their psychosis goes much deeper than that. There are a lot of people on NoQuarterUSA, etc talking about voting for McKinney.
Near as I can tell, it seems to have something to do with Obama leading a gang of thugs, "stealing" an election, being a Chicago-politics-style(?) fraud/huckster who will say anything to get elected, and not denouncing misogyny among his supporters (ok) and the media (this is somehow his job?).
#5, I agree with you completely and I do think they are a small vocal minority. Remember the rabid support that Ron Paul seemed to enjoy on the internet? Didn't quite pan out.
You convinced me, and I was an Obama Man!!! Mckinny is the one. Fuck Obama. Fuck the Democrats and their inability to stop George Bush in any meaningful way. The Republican Party committed suicide, and the Dems have done nothing to help this country but wait and watch. You shit tards, you liberals, you cowards.
Right. Because the Green Party is soooooo effective.
Sigh.
@ Pretty much everyone who said something nice,
Thanks so much for the kind words. My beat is probably going to end up being this kind of thing, so please, any suggestions for future political mutants to discuss would be completely fantastic.
Also, Bob Barr is very much on the agenda, if for nothing other than his terrifying mustache.
Or write Hillary's name in
Not a bad start, Ryan, if your goal is to work for Fox news.
You have to always push the masses further to the right by selecting the most progressive political figures and making them appear crazy. Carefully select images and soundbites that plant this message in the minds of the viewers. Make sure to grossly exaggerate and place out of context anything that supports your view.
For instance, when McKinney tried to sidestep a metal detector (as congress is legally allowed to do) and is stopped and felt up by a police officer, make it sound like she "punches people who get in her way".
When she questions an official conspiracy story and calls for a more thorough investigation of 9/11, just say she thinks "you'll find Dick Cheney at the bottom of 9/11".
When she makes the personal observation "Gore's 'Negro Tolerance Level' has never been too high." in response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 250 black Secret Service Agents who alleged that they have been systematically discriminated against and a report that a quota was placed on the number of black Secret Service officers who would protect Vice President Gore, just say she "believes that Al Gore has a deep-seated hatred for the black race."
If you ever consider becoming a real journalist you might consider actually reading the sources of rumors you post about and perhaps expanding your sources beyond mainstream corporate American media such as the NYT and "Slate". Perhaps balance it out with foreign and independant sources for different points of views which can help you be a little more objective and intelligent in your own reporting.
Who cares? Your votes don't count anyway. Obama is a racist with no plan, no experience, and isn't any different than McCain. Why don't you people realize it's the idiots in congress and the senate that have been there forever that run this country?
um.......I think I love you?
I finally watched Hillary's full concession speech and I must say it was one of the best political speeches I have ever heard.
It was also about the best speech that the Obama campaign could have ever asked for.
It was the best speech that the Democratic Party could have asked for
It was the best speech that Hillary's supporters could have asked for.
It was downright presidential actually.
In that speech I could truly imagine Hillary Clinton being a great President. But as Hillary said, it is time to move on and not dwell on what could have been and start working on what will be…Obama 2008!
wow, congratulations on being an idiot and further upsetting women of america - mainly me!
if you're trying to get us to vote for your "candidate" you're doing it the ass backwards way. thanks for confirming that my decision to not vote for obama if he doesn't choose hillary as his VP (aka hand holder) is absolutely correct.
Emily, you were already upset, you had already made up your mind not to vote for him. So aside from being a snarky ass, what's your point?
That's because crazy white feminists are white first. Sisterhood doesn't extend to the black ladies, DUH.
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