On display at the Lucianne.com home page right now:
So, Luce, which is it? Is Hillary Clinton a violent psychopath or (like even her male supporters) an ineffectual silly girl?
I've been extremely nasty to Team Clinton lately, but, yeah, this stuff is ugly. Then again, it's not just directed at women, or at Hillary Clinton. Republicans (and alleged non-Republicans who've internalized Republican memes) routinely characterize Democrats in a way that was recently summed up succinctly by Atrios, addressing himself to Maureen Dowd and Camille Paglia:
Dear Maureen and Camille
Okay, we get it. Democrats are all women except female Democrats who are men. You can stop writing now.
In the pure GOP form of the meme, the sexual stuff is just one facet of the dangerous-freak image of Democrats -- Democrats, in this view, either are going to get everyone in America killed/send all Americans to the poorhouse (because we Democrats are overeducated rootless cosmpolitan coast-dwellers who hate America and sit around with Dr. Evil himself, George Soros, concocting fiendishly brilliant ways to destroy every normal American's life, through terrorism, taxes, or gay marriage) or are nerdy girlie-men who are too limp-wristed to do what a real American can do without breaking a sweat (again, because we're overeducated rootless cosmpolitan coast-dwellers, and therefore don't know our asses from our elbows). That's the men, of course. The women are mannish and ugly and men would rather kill themselves than sleep with them.
And just to show that Hillary Clinton isn't being singled out, on Lucianne's home page today, right below what I highlighted above, Ms. Goldberg depicts an honorary Democrat (he's an honorary Democrat because he's turned against the god-king) who -- naturally! -- is just a pathetic old biddy:
This is practically all they've got. They turn it on everyone they can. If they can get it to work on Obama, they will. They'll certainly try. (Bowling jokes, anyone?)
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