Lipstick on a Pig.

The Republicans aren’t going to give up their extremely effective method of securing presidential elections for themselves until the Democrats stand up to it, so it was a relief to hear Barack Obama finally call the McCain campaign’s “outrage” over Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” remark for what it is – phony. In case you hadn’t heard, yesterday at a rally Obama compared McCain’s policies to those of President Bush, and said, “You can put lipstick on a pig… it’s still a pig.” The McCain camp twisted Obama’s use of the well-known expression to its perceived advantage once again, putting out an ad accusing Obama of “smearing” Sarah Palin.

HEY! McCain! It’s not all about your VP pick, OK? There is still the very large issue out there about how you’re tied a little too closely to the policies of the widely-loathed George Bush. Even though your party wants to make everything about gender right now to avoid talking about your crummy policies that are no good for America, the Democrats don’t have to do that because they have a slightly less storied history of being such raging, sexist pigs (at least on the surface). So cut the crap that your party has suddenly found Jesus with respect to sexism and now sees it around every corner. Last I checked your party despised all the women who supposedly had that little habit themselves.

It’s particularly ludicrous to hear all this coming from John McCain’s camp – when John McCain himself is not exactly known for his strides in the advancement of women’s rights. Aside from his own abysmal record with respect to issues of concern to women, this is a charmer who allegedly called his own wife a “c___” in front of his campaign aide and a consultant when she dared to joke that his hair was thinning. And that’s just his current wife – don’t even get me started on his treatment of his first wife. Now that’s a guy I want having anything whatsoever to do with my life. Please, let him make some decisions about my future - I can tell he has my best interests at heart.