Dear Barack: Lipsticked Pig, Meet the Ape Rapist

Dear Barack,

When the McCain campaign tries to manufacture outrage over your "pig in lipstick" comment, the correct response isn't a coy dismissal. You need to say, in a tone of rising disgust:

Is John McCain seriously going to lecture me about my respect for women? John McCain, who used the exact same phrase about Hillary Clinton's health care plan? John McCain who listened to one of his supporters call Hillary "a bitch" right in front of him and said nothing? John McCain who once joked that Chelsea Clinton is so ugly "because her dad is Janet Reno?" John McCain whose idea of a good joke is a story about an ape raping a women? If John McCain has so much respect for women, why has he said such cruel and despicable things about them over the course of his entire career? As the husband of a strong woman, and the father of two girls, I find it disgusting that John McCain, of all people, would go crying to the press about sexism. This is man who doesn't even believe that women deserve equal pay for equal work. He doesn't believe women should have the reproductive rights over their own bodies. And he doesn't give a hoot whether they have health insurance. The only women John McCain does respect are those who might help him get elected.

You don't have to point out that John McCain cheated on his first wife repeatedly, before leaving her for a women eighteen years his junior. But I would. McCain's like any other bully. When someone hits back, he gets flustered and makes mistakes.

This is how presidential elections are won, Barack. Eloquent speeches aren't enough. Being right on the issues isn't enough. You have to summon the moral outrage to condemn these goons in explicit terms. You have to make their hypocrisy the issue.

Everyday you fail to do so, you embolden McCain, you fall further behind, and you betray those of us who support you.

This time the gut check better be in the mail,

Steve

Comments

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

Correct. He is a bully. He does get rattled. He begins stuttering. And finally, he loses it. McCain isn't beating Barrack. His campaign advisors are.

Barrack, McCain was lost when he was confronted by the View Women!

Attack, attack, attack McCain. Every day. Every day.

Take it to him in the debates, from the first minute and do not stop the pressure.

[rockaway20]

Great article. PLEASE FAX IT OVER TO DAVID AXELROD PRONTO!!!!!!!!

[LanceJetson]

All you Huffpo bloggers writing "letters to Obama" or spouting "10 things Obama needs to say," etc, are you sending them his way, to his campaign?! Please, tell me that you are, and not just wishing that someone will pass along what they saw on this website or wishing someone from Obama's campaign is monitoring blogs for ideas.

[AreYouSerious]

Great post! I completely agree!!

[kensmiles]

And worst of all.... John McCain,such as sexist that he chose a running mate purely because of her sex.

[mommadona]

Yup, Yup!

ONWARD!

[westwind]

This is perfect. I know Barack Obama wants to take the higher ground, but slime like McCain's needs to be forcefully answered, otherwise Barack lets the race get close enough to be stolen again. Unless the hypocrisy inherent in everything that McCain and Palin say on the stump is repeatedly and forcefully rebuffed, the media just shrugs.

Enough of a fuss has been raised about the Bridge to Nowhere lies that the corporate media has had to pay attention and report the differences between Palin's statements and the truth, but the same has to be done with every devious lie that spews from both their mouths. Repeat the fact that they are liars until it becomes its own media narrative and the campaign can't just ignore the pushbacks any more. Sad that it has to be this way, but with the state our media is in, it is the only way in such a short time before the election to bite back at the phony pitbulls.

[LeftRight]

"Everyday you fail to do so, you embolden McCain"

You need to add to this sentence: "and then the terrorists win."