[lbo-talk] nutters electrified

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sat Aug 30 21:36:34 PDT 2008


NPR interviewed Geraldine Ferraro, who said that she is undecided.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:17:26AM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
>
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Wendy Lyon wrote:
>
>> I think if I was one of these Hillary women I'd be insulted by the
>> gesture. Has anyone heard what the actual Hillary women think?
>
> Pretty much exactly what you just said: they're insulted by the gesture.
> I thought Gail Collins wrote a good column summing it up:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/opinion/30collins-.html
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> AFAICT, no Hillary woman takes seriously the idea that any of their
> brethren will vote Republican because of Palin. As Collins says, it's as
> daft as thinking they'd vote Republican because Quayle was cute (which a
> lot of Repugs did think). And the more the men on her side call her a
> babe, the more absurd the lure becomes.
>
> But OTOH, Palin's ability to electrify the nutters might well matter in
> terms of Repug turnout. Up until now the nutters have hated McCain no
> matter how nutty he's tried to sound. But now they have a win-win: they
> can support him, and then pray for him to die.
>
> Michael
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