Nice try but Brock Landers is a relevant campaign issue.
Posted by: Donna
So the official narrative on Ben Quayle’s participation on the Dirty Scottsdale site has become that it’s is a trivial matter and bringing it up is a “smear”. We’re supposed to focus on Weighty and ImportantTM matters such as the economy and foreign policy in the CD3 race. I’ve heard this not just from the usual Republican subjects but also from Concerned Liberal DudesTM
Silly women, why did you think you mattered?
Sorry dudes, but we women vote and we don’t care for the likes of Ben Quayle. Quayle’s denials of his involvement with the Dirty Scottsdale website are comical but his misogyny is not. He made comments on Dirty Scottsdale denigrating women as sex objects and is now running on a “family values” platform of wanting to take away our reproductive rights. He couldn’t even give Greta Van Susteren a straight answer to her question of whether Dirty Scottsdale and The Dirty sites degrade women. Quayle is a giant hypocrite who had his fun in the Scottsdale club scene and then, upon deciding he had political aspirations, embraced social conservatism.
Quayle boasts of his “lifelong” social conservatism on his campaign website. IOW, he’s for imposing a harsh and punitive sexual moral code on the little people (women especially) while while he and his rich pals can have a grand old time having “youthful indiscretions” until whenever.
Screw that. And screw anyone who thinks “Brock Landers” doesn’t matter and that Ben Quayle’s disparagement of women and his deplorable hypocrisy don’t matter.
Women matter, guys, and Brock Landers might just get the hell knocked out of him at the ballot box in November.
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I just saw in the NYTimes opinion page two women discussing Sarah Palin’s meaning for left wing women. They said that we should be more willing to be in your face types.
They ignore the real reason (IMNHO) why there has been an explosion of women running for office and/or becoming more open about their desire to be in public office, mainly the view that if that idiot (Gov. Palin) can do it, I can too because I am not an idiot.
Say what you will about Secretary Clinton or Speaker Pelosi-they both are very intelligent women and that can be intimidating for someone who is not quite as bright. However, Sarah Palin is an idiot (well okay, clever savant who is good at getting money for herself and family) and that is reassuring.
I was thrilled at Brock Landers/Ben Quayle win in CD3. This is a gift to the Dems.
Brock’s handling of this story says a lot more about him as a person than his misogynistic rants did.
The original story breaks and Brock/Ben has a couple of choices.
1) Go with the lie. “It’s not me.” Okay for an hour but sure to provoke more investigation and embarrassment.
2) Go with the truth and spin it. “I did pen entries for dirtyscottsdale.com. Then I realized how mean, hurtful and cheap they were. Something that seemed funny was wrong and petty. So I severed my connection to the web site.” Now it’s a story for a day or two but, assuming Brock/Ben can be truthful, it goes away.
Brock/Ben goes with the lie. Didn’t anyone ever tell him the coverup is almost always worse than the crime? And now he continues to lie and understate his role. He claims to be a lifelong conservative with family values?
Going back to when exactly? 1815 (or thereabouts) when Blacks were held as slaves and women couldn’t vote? Is that the kind of conservatism Brock/Ben embraces?
What Sarah Palin and Brock Landers are doing are actually very similar- making political careers out of spitting on the culture that allows them to be who they are.
A mother of four being taken seriously as a contender for President and an unmarried man being taken seriously as a candidate for Congress would not be possible in the Leave it to Beaver world these conservatives supposedly want to take us back to. They owe as much to Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem as any man who’s bought a condom or any woman who’s graduated from college.
They’ll continue to make pop culture references– mind you, a culture created by the very coast-dwelling denizens they blame all of America’s ills on– but I wonder if they’ll ever stop to consider that their careers supporting the patriarchy are only possible in a world where the patriarchy’s once firm grasp on everything is slipping.
Don’t know who you are dude, but I think I love you!
Herb Paine has the vapors that Hulburd dare bring this up.
Sadly, this tactic has worked before for the GOP. Remember when GWB was asked about his cocaine use and alcoholism? He said it was in the past and not relevant. And it was dropped!