Biden Steps In It
A few years ago I wrote something snarky about Nancy Pelosi and a male friend scolded me for not showing solidarity with a female politician.
I nearly lost it.
“In that case, you should support Donald Trump,” I retorted. “After all, he has a penis, just like you!”
I loathe identity politics. I don’t vote for a candidate based on genitals or skin color. Neither should you.
For as long as I can remember, females have been told that we should vote as a bloc on so-called “women’s issues,” which is code, of course, for abortion. I heard it a lot in 2016, when we were urged to vote for Hillary to “break the glass ceiling”.
As if I shared any common ground with that coughing, condescending harridan.
It was on an unforgettable August morning in 2012 that I came face to face with the assumption that women are nothing but a mindless blob of voters. I was covering Mitt Romney’s surprise announcement of a running mate at the battleship Wisconsin in Norfolk.
Here’s what I wrote:
A few feet from me on the press stand was tiny Andrea Mitchell, whose stylist apparently thought it would be cute to dress her in some sort of nautical get-up for her trip to a Navy town. Her dark blazer with a red shirt and crisp white pants looked like something Thurston Howell III would have worn on "Gilligan's Island." Only in a petite.
As she spoke into the camera, with the crowd to her back, Mitchell told MSNBC viewers that Ryan's selection "is not a pick for suburban moms. This is not a pick for women."
Oh, really?
If she'd turned around, NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent might have noticed that at least half of the people cheering themselves hoarse for Paul Ryan were women. Many appeared to be suburban moms.
But to Ms. Mitchell and many other liberals, conservative women are invisible. They don’t count.
Of course, that’s nothing compared to the arrogant, entitled attitude the left has toward African Americans.
Take Joe Biden’s astonishing statement on Friday to Charlamagne tha God, host of “The Breakfast Club” radio show.
“Well, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re voting for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden declared.
Jeezus. Another cringe-inducing dip into atrocious grammar by a liberal trying to sound relatable to a black audience. How many times do you suppose Biden uses “ain’t” in normal conversations? Or “y’all” as in, “They want to put y’all back in chains”?
It’s degrading.
I was surprised that the host of Friday’s radio show didn’t snap back with, “What the hell did you just say? Since when do shriveled old white men get to decide who’s black in America?”
Biden later apologized - sort of - saying he shouldn’t have been such a “wiseguy” or so “cavalier.”
Shoot, that’s just more bragging by this creepy bigot.
What Biden said on the radio merely expressed what many lefties believe: that certain special interest groups owe them their fealty. Black voters chief among them.
They believe that African Americans don’t have the right - as white people do - to vote their consciences.
Put another way, what Biden was saying was that white men can be anything they like: conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat. But blacks have only once choice.
They’re either Democrats. Or they don’t count.
