Rick Davis: Palin drives ‘liberal feminists’ crazy because she’s ‘attractive,’ ‘competent,’ 'happy'

[babylonsister]

Oh, brother. This will go over well.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/21/davis-feminists-palin/

Rick Davis: Palin drives ‘liberal feminists’ crazy because she’s ‘attractive,’ ‘competent,’ and ‘happy.’»


On Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis claimed that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drives “liberal feminists” crazy because “she’s a conservative Republican” who is “raising five kids” while serving as governor. Davis then agreed when Bennett suggested that what drives feminists “more crazy” is that Palin is “very attractive,” “very competent,” and “very happy”:

BENNETT: I don’t know which drives them more crazy. Let me give you three things that I think drives them crazy, and you don’t have to comment. That’s she’s very attractive. That she’s very competent or that she’s very happy. You know, as a human being.

DAVIS: Yeah, all of the above.

Listen at link~

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has taken to attacking feminists over Palin as well. On the stump yesterday, he declared, “My friends, it’s remarkable the comments of the feminist left about Sarah Palin.”

[polichick]

1. LOL - yeah, that's it! :)

[SuperTrouper]

17. LOL!! Mika will be upset tomorrow!

:rofl:

Talk about idiocy running rampart in McFright's campaign...

[ellacott]

40. That ought to be funny

:)

[Cosmocat]

48. It has been said, and bears repeating ...

it really is like these clowns have boxed themselves into campaigning JUST for the "base" ...

It is this real disconnect with these people, where they kind of know they are going lose, and their way of dealing with it is to just throw bombs - get the unquestioned love of the "base" while totally flaming the other 55% of the electorate ...

It is sad, but also very harmful to the spirit of their country.

The knuckledraggers they are appealing to are going to vote for their candidate regardless - they SHOULD be trying to appeal to people outside of their box, but they simply are SO tone death, SO consumed by the dogma of their "politics" they just would prefer to go down in flames, with the adulation of their own.

[BklynChick]

2. disgusting.

[cdb]

3. Silly me. All this time I thought it was because she opposed womens rights... n/t

[Sodan]

4. let the whining begin ...as if she was all that..she's not (I am a man)

[tosh]

5. False.

[LiberadorHugo]

6. Who cares?

It's the Bookie of Virtues. The man has never had anything intelligent to say.

[JBoy]

7. Funny. McCain drives me crazy, and he's ugly, incompetent and unhappy.

[TxBlue]

72. LOL Good one!

[TheCoxwain]

8. No it is because she is 'Ugly','Incompetent, 'happy' and thinks she’s ‘attractive,’ ‘competent, and

'happy'

this woman is an insult to everything feminism stands for..

[FSogol]

9. I bet the liberal feminists are happier on 11/5/08. n/t

[justiceischeap]

10. Hmmm

Sounds to me that he thinks feminists are unattractive, incompetent and unhappy. Further proof they've lost the majority of the female voting bloc.

[Lucky 13]

11. I see...

You're saying feminists are a bunch of ugly, fat, incompetent, miserable bitches?

It's on, motherfucker.

[sunrisenativ]

12. Right.

Because ALL "liberal feminists" are ugly, incompetent and unhappy. :sarcasm:

[John Q. Citizen]

13. She doesn't sound that happy. She's always whining about that trooper to his boss.

[eleny]

14. More like a corrupt, incompetent hack

[JimGinPA]

15. Well, One Out Of Three...

And that's only because ignorance is bliss.

[ErinBerin84]

16. good grief.

Why not just say 'liberal feminists’ hate Palin because she shaves her legs!" Surprised he didn't go there.


I wonder if he would say that "Kathleen Parker is jus' jealous!" too?

[ellacott]

31. Or Peggy Noonan

[Supersedeas]

78. sort of a blindness to the Conservative criticism of Palin

[MagickMuffin]

18. She only drives me crazy because of her lack of INTELLIGENCE

I don't find her attractive, COMPETENT, and I don't really care if she is "happy" she is a disgrace to our gender.

[Hepburn]

19. Yeah, right....

...it has NOTHING to do with her Nazi views!!

:rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. that woman is no more attractive than i am and is significantly less coherent

if she were all that happy she wouldnt need a crazy witch doctor as a religious figure or the need to hate gays. all these things point to the fact that she is unhappy and looking for happiness in all the wrong places.

bah

[nebenaube]

69. but..

where else is she going to get the 'X' for her congregation?

[RoadRage]

21. Ugly, incompetent & sad liberal here...

the only thing that will make me pretty, competent & happy is if Obama wins..

How great it will be to see Sarah Palin switch positions with me. Actually.. the only thing she probably really has going for her are the looks.. because competent is NOT what I would call her at all - and I really can't imagine she's ultra happy right now.

[vaberella]

22. Rick Davis is an operative because he's been sabotaging his ticket from day one.

He just drove off more independent feminist women that bs, paticularly since we are supportive of the idea of "sisterhood". Rick Davis just pissed on it, which will hurt Palin and ultimately the McCain/Palin ticket.

[vaberella]

44. I've got it. He's an operative for Bob Barr AND Ron Paul. n/t

[Kdillard]

23. They really don't know when to stop.

[Mojambo]

24. Competent... ROTFLMAO. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

25. Say that again

Say that again every day, Rick. :thumbsup:

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

26. Here, Mr. Davis...

...got a nice, juicy Pew Poll for you to munch on...or maybe you'd like this tasty CBS one?

[AndyA]

27. Wrong, Rick. Palin drives 'liberal feminists' crazy because she's a

NIT WIT.

Liberal feminists are attractive, competent, and happy as well. They are also intelligent, don't need a husband to tell them what to think or say, and they recognize Palin for what she is: a typical Republican.

And whether male or female, that's not acceptable in today's world.

[Franzia]

53. A nit has more wit than Palin.

Of that I become daily more convinced.

[lukasahero]

28. OMFG - speaking as one of those liberal feminists

She drives me crazy because she's the incompetent bimbo I've had to compete with my entire life - using her cheap flirty act with men to get ahead while far more talented women are overlooked because they "won't put out". God she pisses me off.

[endarkenment]

29. She could give me a happy ending and I still wouldn't vote for her.

Besides - I have never found that sort of woman attractive, not even visually attractive, and when that mouth opens any shred of physical attraction just vanishes.

[TexasObserver]

30. If anyone should know, it's famous feminist Rick Davis.

You can smell the lard on him through the TV screen.

[OnionPatch]

32. She's doing all those things because of liberal women who paved the way.

She wouldn't be able to vote, let alone run for VP if it weren't for liberal-minded women in history. It wouldn't be acceptable for her to raise a family AND be a governor if it weren't for the women's liberation movement. And she'll stand and tell the world how evil we liberals are. This is what irks me about conservative women like her.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Way to win over those women voters, guy!

You know, the ugly ones. :eyes:

[babylonsister]

41. No kidding; this is just going to piss people off if they hear about it. nt

[Kalyke]

34. I'm attractive (and younger), competent and happy and I'm a

LIBERAL!!!

See, that's why women don't like you, Ricky.

[Vektor]

35. One out of three ain't bad. I suppose there IS a possibility she is "happy."

Or blissfully ignorant, to be more precise.

The other two things, she is most certainly NOT.

Rick Davis, FAIL.

[BlooInBloo]

36. (facepalm) Soon they're gonna start talking about the unshaven dirty hippie women.

[Rambis]

37. Ignorance is bliss

yeah?

[CakeGrrl]

38. Way to win over the disaffected Hillary voters and women in general. NOT.

Gawd, I hate the "they're just jealous and bitter because she's so wonderful" slam.

Sorry, Rick. You have a corrupt, lying, know-nothing shit-disturber on your hands who can only give beauty pageant answers to relevant questions and who has to wink her way through a debate to score points. You lose.

[ErinBerin84]

39. flashback to the McCain ad

"They called her...ATTRACTIVE..how DISRESPECTFUL!"

[deadparrot]

42. A liberal feminist's reponse...

Attractive? I find her position on every imaginable issue to be not only UNattractive, but completely repugnant.
Competent? She can't name a newspaper or magazine she reads. Enough said.
Happy? On this account, I can't respond. I don't know if she's happy. But one thing I do know: she can be happy back in Wasilla, without the ability to run roughshod over my rights.

[wvbygod]

43. Women don't care if their rivals or other women are attractive

That would be petty and harken back to the animals/mating/survival meme.

[Disturbed]

60. She is attractive until she talks. Then she becomes real ugly.

Alaskans need to mount a Recall Petition & toss her out. She is corrupt & inept. She is unfit to be Gov., much less VP or possibly Pres. of the USA..




Outlawing Abortion, even in cases of Rape &/or Incest.

Against any form of Birth Control.

Abstinence Only Programs in Public Schools.

Creation Education in Public Schools.

For overturning Rove v Wade

Extending US Occupation Iraq Indefinatly

Believes that Homosexuals can be cured through prayer.

Against Civil Unions.

In October, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled the state couldn't deny spousal benefits to the same-sex partners of public employees. That means that while Alaska has banned gay marriage, it can't withhold, say, health insurance from a state employee's gay partner.

... Elected officials can't defy the court when it comes to how rights are applied, she said, but she would support a ballot question that would deny benefits to homosexual couples.
"I believe that honoring the family structure is that important," Palin said. She said she doesn't know if people choose to be gay.

[beltanefauve]

45. Just what we needed

:eyes: Another white male in a position of power telling us what we think and how!

[Quantess]

46. That's funny.

1. Palin is attractive, he got that part right. But so am I, and that's got nothing to do with anything. Ask beautiful starlet Hayden Panettiere her opinion of Sarah Palin...are you going to accuse Hayden Panettiere of hating Palin because she's beautiful?

2. Palin does seem happy, in an odd way. A lot of American women are not happy right now, so that could be a reason why she isn't connecting with them.

3. "Very competent"....:rofl:

[political_Dem]

47. Believe me. No one wants to be jealous of an incompetent, racist, homophobic bigot.

But Bill Bennett claims to read the minds of women? Yeah Right. Just like the time he released that pearl of wisdom about Black folks and abortions.

:sarcasm:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

49. Puhleeze. Dweebs like Davis and Bennett are so jealous of Obama it's not even funny

He's so obviously brilliant and handsome and likable and successful, to the their everlasting fury.

Women are not repudiating Palin because we're jealous. We're rejecting her because she's a dangerous idiot.

[Median Democrat]

50. Rick Davis - "Don't You Wish Your VP Was Hot Like Mine....Don't cha..."

Sung to the Pussycat Dolls tune.

[Canuckistanian]

51. If it weren't for feminists, Palin would be at home cooking moose meat

That her husband shot for her.

And if she EVER tried to run for mayor of Wasilla, she'd be patted on the head and asked to bring some coffee by the men.

[texastoast]

54. Yeppers

She stands on the shoulders of some REALLY great women who understand more about what being a woman means than Sarah is capable of understanding.

[TxBlue]

73. YUP! Yup!

But she so clueless and self involved she doesn't credit anyone but herself.

[Metric System]

52. Yes, I'm sure those are the reason. Uh huh.

[noiretextatique]

55. this liberal feminist dislikes palin

because she is an empty-headed rw bigot. :patriot:

[kestrel91316]

56. Ok, I see it's the "ugly lesbian feminist" label v 2.0 rearing its head.......

"Liberal feminist" and "attractive, competent, and happy" are not mutually exclusive. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[JohnnyRingo]

57. That explains Palin's 98% approval rating

Hahahahahahaa - LOL
Only liberal freaks and "feminists" dislike her.
We're all jealous that we don't have a Palin or a Pfuttenpuffer on our side.

Good one Rick.

[countingbluecars]

58. I have many friends

who are more attractive, competent, and probably happier than Palin. Just wait and see how happy she is when she returns to Alaska.

[TheKentuckian]

59. Good job Rick!!!!

Keep up the good work and the GOP will solely consist of Archie Bunker types that are intellectually challenged and over 55. When those folks die out, it seems as if they have to decided to end their party's run as a national entity.

"As The GOP Narrows" may be America's newest Soap Opera.

[EC]

61. Oh Yeah,

whatever....

[JohnWxy]

62. Yeah, when the Chief of Safety wouldn't fire her ex-brother-in-law for her she fired him.

Yeah, really somebody to envy (slime-ball).

[onenote]

63. right. because liberal feminists like Sharon Stone, Scarlett Johansson,

Halle Berry, Hayden Pannetierre, Jessica Biel, etc. are such dogs.

[TxBlue]

68. lol that's a great retort!

[kwolf68]

64. DE-Nial

Just like the Powell voting for a black person ONLY because he is black, these people are doing EVERYTHING to deflect the real reason people don't like her: She's a vacuous neo-fascist, right wing theocrat. Her POLITICS IS SHIT.

It has nothing to do whether or not she is happy or pretty. What a load of horseshit.

If a happy, pretty women was hated by Liberals, Ashley Judd wouldn't be my 'fantasy girl'...

As far as competent that is a hoot, so much a deranged statement it can't even be addressed.

This is pure political propaganda Conservatives are using to deflect potential criticism of their sordid ideology. Instead of some actual self-analysis of where their perspective has failed them (and our country), they choose these superflous memes about 'why' I, and many others like me, loathe Palin. And it HAS NOTHING to do with her looks or her general happiness.

us Liberals have been sitting back for 20 years now (or more) listening to these right-wing windbags 'define' us...and it's all bullshit.

[TxBlue]

65. ROTFLOL Those 2 are talking about being attractive??? OMG

I'm sorry but if they are going to judge people on appearances then they opened a door.
Davis looks like a shark. Strange face.
Bill Bennett...gamblin' Bill? the really obese Bennett?
Reminds me of that Hagee man in San Antonio preaching on tv about how marriages wouldn't being breaking up if women took care of themselves and made themselves attractive for husbands. And here he is about as attractive as a beached whale. Feel sorry for his wife. Can you even imagine?...ok, erase that ugly image from my head.

Palin competent? In what regards, Charlieee? Like when she went to 5 colleges for a journalism degree???

OMG these people are too funny.

BTW, I'm a former repug legacy from longtime dyed in wool repug family. I'm a conservative Christian woman and attending a lot of fundie churches. Some ok but a lot are just subterfuges for male control and dominance to build up there on sad, sick egos.
I say that in love but it's true.
And no, I'm not any bra burning fem but hey, that's ok for them too, back in the day.

I guess I really believed all that stuff in the Bible about love and giving and taking care of widows. I'm sorry but I don't see how Obama is "so liberal". He doesn't seem to be totally sold out to corporations. Is that what they mean when they say Obama is "so liberal"?

Read Isaiah - portrait of Christ. In the Gospels, Jesus championed the rights of women and was the biggest bleeding heart liberal there ever was.
He threw the money changers out of the temple - He was against corporate greed.
If I had to guess I think Jesus of the Bible would be voting this election
for BARACK OBAMA!

[shimmergal]

76. Yeah. It's strange how

so many unattractive men think they're entitled to publicly rate women on their appearance.

We ought to turn the tables on them, IMO. How many times do you hear women making comments, publicly, about the looks of men whom they really find off-putting?

[Lucy Goosey]

66. As a liberal feminist, I would like to point out that Rick Davis doesn't speak for me.

I mean, obviously, right?

(Also, I'm happy, competent and, if I do say so myself, attractive.)

[vanderBeth]

67. So we're jealous?

:puke:

[Danger Mouse]

70. That's right, drive away those women voters.

:rofl:
God, these pigs are inept.

[DeschutesRiver]

71. Probably sounds right to Rick - what these boys listed were qualities you'd want in your mistress

and since that is their only frame of reference for the object "woman", than THAT must be what is driving other women crazy about Palin.

Not the madness of putting a low information, low IQ, low rent person in the VP slot, who is more than 90% likely to be running the free world in less than 3 months when her sugar daddy keels over during the first quarter of his first term.

[spanone]

74. rick davis is the perfect 'swamp rat' lizard man.......creepy...and why does bennett have a radio sh

ow?

[Arkansas Granny]

75. It's pretty obvious that he hasn't asked any "liberal feminists" about Palin if that's

the only explanation he can come up with.

[sunder]

77. WTF?

Um, no. I hate the fact that they think her looks are enough to qualify her to be VP.

[Cass]

79. As if these 2 dolts would have a freaking clue about what liberal feminists think.

:eyes:

The whole damn world knows this woman is in way way over her head - that's not liberal feminist jealousy, that's cold, hard reality.

[seabeyond]

80. like i am gonna listen to these stupid ass, women hating, white males.

tell me what i think, .... morons. i ma gonna buy into it. rollin eyes.

[noel711]

81. 'Oh yeah, attractive, competent, happy and STUPID!'

Yeah, as feminist professional, I'm just insanely crazy
because she's head and shoulders above me and my peers.

Right... we all wish we also attractive, competent, happy,
and as STUPID as she is.

Not only is she an insult to all women,
but these men who think they can put us down are
every more stupid: testosterone stupid.


P.S. "competent"? At what? Inspiring a hard-on?

[Vinca]

82. As Judge Judy is fond of saying -

beauty fades, dumb is forever.

[Blu Dahlia]

83. Are liberal feminists pissed at Maria Shriver too?

:shrug: She's 50 times more gorgeous than Palin-and she's actually intelligent!

[bluedawg12]

84. Women don't think, it's all apparently a cat fight

in the repig universe.

The old smear used against liberal women--very old tactic, very revealing of their true understanding of women.

Oh and pig-bennett-oink--

This is code, the sterotype of unhappy liberal, gay, uppity, you name it whatever the RW patriarchy fears

"That she’s very competent or that she’s very happy"

wolf killer is not happy, she's delusional.

[Feron]

85. I don't like Sarah Palin because...

she's a woman that revels in her own ignorance. It's like she is running for Miss USA rather than Vice President.

Hillary Clinton may have many faults, but she is an intelligent and competent woman. That's the kind of woman I would like to see in office, not someone that can't even answer softball questions from Katie Couric.

Women want to move away from the stereotype of an airheaded sex object and Palin's candidacy reinforces just that. I don't want a MILF in office, I want someone competent that is able to lead if the need arises.

We've gone down the folksy route with Bush and look at the mess we're in now.

[Phx_Dem]

86. Rick honey, if I looked like you I wouldn't talking about attractiveness. n/t

[casus belli]

87. Any "feminist" who agrees with this garbage needs her credentials checked. n/t