While I can appreciate some fundamental level of cleverness over these buttons that showed up on a vendor's display (for a brief time) at the Colorado Republican Convention, it's also telling to me that — just as there is a faction within the GOP that really loves using racist imagery about Barack Obama, there's also a faction (probably much the same one) who can't talk about Hillary Clinton without making a sexist crack.
Call them the Rush Limbaugh faction.
I don't think they represent the GOP as a whole, by any means. I know some fine Republicans who would consider these buttons, at a minimum, offensive, and I'm sure there are others who would be appalled at the message it was sending. But not enough of them seemed to be around outside the VIP reception at the California convention to have told off this vendor before a reporter spotted them tweeted about it (http://goo.gl/IMZdH1).
Republican Convention Features Sexist Anti-Hillary Buttons: ’2 Fat Thighs, 2 Small Breasts’
So how’s that Republican Party rebranding effort working out?
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Considering that most men in the country are married to similarly shaped women, perhaps they ought to take some offense, after all.
I never really spent a lot of time thinking about Hillary Clinton's body. Her pantsuits, yes.
The previous target of this kind of thing, from my perspective, was Janet Reno, the AG in Bill Clinton's administration, who was almost inevitably characterized by Rush and his ilk as "ugly" (in much more colorful terms), as though that was the foundation for any critique that might be made about her job performance.
Now, to be honest, Janet Reno was no Raquel Welch (sigh). But that her lack of swexiness was both the lead and wrap-up of attacks on her from certain quarters from the Right was terribly telling.
The closest I can think of as an analog from the Left are those who rag on Chris Christie for being overweight. Which is possibly a legit criticism in the relatively narrow category of "expressing concern over how health issues might impact one's ability to execute office," but that's rarely how it happens. And, yes, that irks me, too.
Don't worry…most republican males are that…2 fat thighs, breasts, big huge buttocks and a paunch! They'll match each other!
… and hopefully eat each other >.>
Yes, let's apply those standards to all the politicians and see how they fare. (Rump roast jokes immediately spring to mind.)
There is that irony, +Art Divine India, that there are plenty of folks doing this sort of thing who are throwing stones inside their own glass houses.
Of course, that gets back to it's okay for guys to look older, because it makes them look distinguished, while women who get older are just asking to be replaced with trophy wives. Which is a reflection of the real underlying problem here.
Hmmm…you actually give me an idea…women should enjoy their prime by themselves and find a young trophy husband when they are sixty…Wonder why Hillary has not done that with all that power. Hmmm…then she could tease the Republicans….he he