You wonder sometimes how stupid our DC Democrats can be. Just when you think they can't do something more idiotic, they top themselves. Nancy Pelosi makes history this week, heck the press coverage was grudgingly good. So what do we get? This dimwittery:
Thursday was notable for another milestone in gender politics: the return of the Alpha Male Democrat. The members of this new faction, which helped the Democrats expand into majority status, stand out not for their ideology or racial background but for their carefully cultivated masculinity.
. . . John Lapp, the former executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who helped recruit this new breed of candidate[, says] "These are red-blooded Americans who are tough." Mr. Lapp even coined a term to describe these manly — and they are all men — pols: "the Macho Dems."
Sheesh. More.
The Macho Dems? Only a wimp has to call himself macho. This is the rhetorical equivalent of stuffing the crotch in your pants. Mr. Lapp, let me clue you in to something - Jim Webb and Jon Tester and Joe Sestak and Patrick Murphy do not need YOU calling them "Macho Dems" and "red blooded Americans." Authenticity. Look it up. Figure it out. This is pathetic, not to mention insulting to the rest of the Party and to the strong Fighting Dem women in our Party. Only a wimpy, spineless DC Democrat could come up with this shit.
Compounding this stupidity, is the bullshit from the journalist who writes the article, Ryan Lizza who writes:
Sure, some Macho Dems express support for, say, abortion rights but one gets the sense that ensuring Roe’s preservation may not be one of their highest priorities in coming to the Senate. It’s hard to imagine them at the next Emily’s List fund-raiser.
Ideologically, many Macho Dems are culturally conservative and economically liberal — making them odd ducks in a party that since the Clinton years has been defined by cultural liberalism and Rubinomics.
So what the fuck does "culturally conservative" mean anyway? Apparently, according to Lizza, you can be "culturally conservative" even if you support privacy rights, oppose the Iraq war, support stem cell research, believe in separation of church and state, etc.? Cool. Lizza would say sure, but is that their top priority? Hey Lizza, do you think Shuler, Casey and Ellsworth have abortion as THEIR top priority? Of course not.
This is all ridiculous. But the Media is nothing if not ridiculous. And the DC Dems appparently will never learn.