Thus speaks the brilliant Charles Pierce in Esquire, who says,
n Wednesday afternoon, my man Chuck Todd and his panelists on the daily version ofMeet The Press gave their audience as clear and simple a demonstration of the Clinton Rules as has been seen in public since that day Dan Burton murdered a melon in his backyard. Things got so weird so fast that, on a panel with two women, former RNC chairman Michael Steele was the lone voice arguing that, yes, misogyny might have played something of a role in last November's results.
(As to Steele's point, look at the giddy reception given to the re-emergence onto the national stage of good ol' Joe Biden, who announced to great fanfare that he was starting a PAC and immediately was granted legitimacy as a 2020 contender—even though he'll be 77 that year, and despite the fact that he was a monumental failure in both of his previous presidential campaigns.)
Put simply, the Clinton Rules state that any relatively commonplace political occurrence or activity takes on mysterious dark energy when any Clinton is involved.
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Yes. Yes. Yes again.
I don’t know if any of you saw this or the commentary by Greta van Susteren on MSNBC but basically people just couldn’t wait to say oh my goodness she is SO BITTER and why doesn’t she just fade away like — like who? Like McCain? Like John Kerry? Like Gingrich? Like — Joe Biden? Did Al Gore just go away?
None of these guys went away. None of them.
As a matter of fact, I think the nation would have been better served had Gore raised holy hell about what happened to him for as long as he possibly could. I think the nation would have been better served if some Democratic senator had stood with, say, John Lewis, to contest the results of the 2000 election. I think that Kerry should have hollered louder and longer about the shenanigans in Ohio that helped re-elect George W. Bush. Maybe if they had done this, the subsequent flood of voter-suppression laws, and the ensuing gerrymandering of various legislatures, which continues to rage through the political process today, could have been partially stemmed.
Amen to all of the above.
And one of these days we’ve got to have a serious talk about ageism and misogyny. Because every time I read a nasty comment, including here on KOS, sliming Hillary Clinton, telling her to shut up, crawl off, blame herself for this perfect storm of propaganda, lies, targeted analytics, social media, and FBI interference (not to mention Russia) in our election, I want to scream.
I take this very personally. It’s an attack on women everywhere but especially older women, the wise women who’ve struggled against misogyny all our lives, who fought for workplace equality, who’ve struggled to equal rights including the right to control our bodies and our destinies; to be free. And we’re now the backbone of the #Resistance.
Think about that.