This has been steaming me for a week now and since it's a slow Sunday at home and here on Kos, I thought I'd use my diary to vent.
I simply cannot stand the Sarah "Barracuda" hypocrisy.
Suddenly the allegedly down home, small town GOP base is embracing this "Barracuda" term as if being a man-eating b*tch is now what they desire in women...
Yet how many years have we had to live with them criticizing strong powerful left-leaning women? We'll look past all the criticisms of the Barbra Streisands and Martha Stewarts of the world...and instead focus on their chief foe: Hillary Clinton.
Can you imagine if their reaction if Hillary Clinton touted Barracuda Pride? They'd be laughing their arses off on every news station and calling her a b*tch.
For the last two decades, Hillary Clinton has been vilified in every way imaginable because she's a strong woman who fights back. The right-wingers HATE her because of it.
They call her "high powered" with disdain - suggest she's so power hungry that the entire DNC media coverage was focused on whether she'd stage a coup!
They make Hillary Clinton Nutcrackers and Tucker Carlson said he unconsciously crosses his legs when she comes on tv.
They say she's Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
and on, and on, and on.
But, now, here they are PRAISING the fact that Sarah Palin is known as a BARRACUDA!
It drives me nuts. Absolutely nuts.
Somehow they've taken claim over these words as if they're good thing. All of a sudden "maverick" (which we all know from watching Top Gun means "loose cannon") becomes something noble. Barracuda now is something they praise.
Ugh. Perhaps it's that we need to start OWNING terms too. What if Hillary Clinton had the "I'm a nut-cracking b*tch and proud of it" attitude? I mean, that's how they play the game. They revel in the "We're gun-totin' rednecks and proud" and "I'm a Barracuda and proud" and on and on...