Headline Prediction:

[urbpan]

Hillary Supporters Hail McCain's VP pick:
Shrill, bitter legions vow to elect GOP candidate, then jump out from behind something to induce "First Woman President" sized heart attack.
"A stroke would be fine, too," said Agatha Crabtree of Massachusetts, "or poison."

Comments

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on. The "shrill, bitter legions" thing is so overblown. It's ridiculous! There were just as many vocal anti-Hillary Obama fans who said they'd vote for McCain if she got the nomination. To characterize them as a movement is pretty silly. I mean, I know you were going for silly, but it's not helpful.

ETA: Especially given the fact that she's anti-choice, anti-gay, pro-oil, and by all accounts more conservative than McCain. The fact that people are even talking about this in a serious way (let alone tongue-in-cheek) as though McCain were picking an HRC to Obama's McCain is so ridiculous.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's ridiculous, but I'm really afraid. I encountered several Clinton supporters whose main issue was the candidate's gender. There are surely Obama supporters whose support was or is based on his being black, but I can't imagine any of them would have voted for McCain if Obama lost the primary.

Nina Totenberg agrees with you, by the way. A colleague asked her if she thought this VP pick was an attempt to reach out to angry Clinton supporters, and she replied incredulously, "If so, good luck with that."

I hope you're right, that the electorate is smart enough to look past black, white, male, female, old, young, to what the politician is likely to do to the Supreme Court, the Military, and the country.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

The Obama supports I encountered were more like "I hate Hillary! She's evil! I'd rather vote McCain than ever vote for her!" Which is equally ridiculous if you vote based on issues. As a Hillary supporter, I just feel like the whole thing has been SO overblown by the press. I felt like a second-class liberal the entire primary, but I jumped on board as soon as he was nominated and I have never met an actual living, breathing Clinton-supporter who felt the way that's been depicted. It makes me SO annoyed.

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry if my initial comment came across as too harsh, btw. I'm still stinging a lot from my experiences as a young liberal Clinton-supporter.

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

It's not a matter of having to look past gender. Every feminist on earth has already encountered the female patriarchy collaborator, often starting in junior high school, so it's not hard to simultaneously think it would be an objectively good thing to have a woman in the White House rather than a man of the same caliber at this point in history, and that one wouldn't vote for Palin if the alternative were a dead male white rhinoceros.

[belen1974.livejournal.com]

the stroke part is hilarious.

i was wondering the other night how many of those "bitter hillary" supporters there really are out there or whether it's just that the media, in wanting a sensational news story, are over focusing on them.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Good point. The media loves infighting. It's drama within drama!

[antarcticlust.livejournal.com]

I definitely think it's the latter.

But yes, once I get over my bitterness, I can have a chuckle at the headline. :)

[nmsunbear.livejournal.com]

You should write for the Onion. :)