i'm a dumb motherfucker, and i vote
Is it just me, or is choosing Presidential candidates based on how much you dislike their wives a really stupid thing to do? From an article by Melinda Henneberger:Do presidential unions matter? Voters think they do. A recent survey found that fully one-third of women voters not only take the happiness of a presidential candidate's marriage into account, but cite it as a significant factor in their decision. In 2004, I argued against the notion that Teresa Heinz Kerry had hurt her husband's chances, but I was wrong. In interviews across the country for my book about what women really want in a president, I heard her perceived snootiness cited more often than I would ever have believed possible as the deciding factor against John Kerry. What these women didn't like about his wife reflected and intensified their reservations about the candidate himself. Just a few weeks after the election, a public health nurse in Illinois put it like this: "I'm a registered Democrat and I'm not for being in Iraq, but I'll tell you what, I voted for Bush. I don't know that Bush is totally truthful, and he's not the smartest person in the world. But Kerry, I really didn't like his wife, and that influenced me. She has a smart mouth and doesn't control it.''
Wait, one-third of women vote based on a candidate's spouse? No, there can't possibly be that many morons out there. George W. Bush has a perfectly happy marriage to his robotic sperm-dumpster wife - who stood by him while he spent the first 25 years of their marriage drunk and/or stoned - but that has nothing to with the fact that he is a lying incompetent who shouldn't even be in charge of Planet Spaceball.
Reading this, I got all ramped up to write a super-misogynistic post about how women's suffrage should be revoked. But then I realized that choosing a President based on his spouse can't be any dumber than any of the other "likability" factors that we spend months obsessing over. What is there to say, really? This is why we get the leaders we deserve.
Wait, one-third of women vote based on a candidate's spouse? No, there can't possibly be that many morons out there. George W. Bush has a perfectly happy marriage to his robotic sperm-dumpster wife - who stood by him while he spent the first 25 years of their marriage drunk and/or stoned - but that has nothing to with the fact that he is a lying incompetent who shouldn't even be in charge of Planet Spaceball.
Reading this, I got all ramped up to write a super-misogynistic post about how women's suffrage should be revoked. But then I realized that choosing a President based on his spouse can't be any dumber than any of the other "likability" factors that we spend months obsessing over. What is there to say, really? This is why we get the leaders we deserve.