Moe - The DFL Feminist

Moe - The DFL Feminist crowd is already in full fume over Roger Moe beating out Judy Dutcher and Becky Loury for the DFL Gubernatorial nomination.

But I have to wonder - why? And is it all it seems it is?

I was at the convention. You couldn't swing a cat without hitting a feminist activist in full froth and combat plumage. Women, I believe, outnumbered men. Feminists and their sympathizers certainly outnumbered their opponents by an order of magnitude. Itis apparently beyond some DFL feminists of both genders to consider that.

So after decades of fruffing and phumphering, why is the DFL base still whining about its inability to nominate anything but white European males? Those who want a woman at the top of the ticket at any cost have ALL the advantages, not the least of which being a majority of voters.

So why, in 2002, after decades of electoral quotas and Emily's Lists and supercharged fundraising to get women on every possible (liberal) ticket, do we come down to Renee's near-liturgical expresson of frustration yet again?

Two theories to advance, tonight:

1. The DFL Feminists don't WANT a woman to run for governor, least of all a hand-picked, far-left, utterly FPC one. Having a sense of invincible victimhood is worth more to the DFL Feminists than a candidate - one that would probably get shredded at the polls (largely because her DFL-Feminist-endorsed campaign would be so far the left that even Minnesotans, outside the Metro, wouldn't vote for them). The clobbering would reduce the DFL Feminist faction's "kingmaker" status within the party. And let's not forget - the DFL Feminist's power is not through power, but that sense that she's been so deeply wronged (yet again) that there's NOTHING all those nasty white men can do to atone.

2. The GOP will be the first to nominate a woman for governor. Dunno how or when, but that's what'll happen. Not only will we beat the DFL to it, but we'll feel better about, because she will have been nominated based on qualifications, not gender.

Women are 51% of the vote - literally fifty percent at the DFL convention, but I'd suspect (and the "Gender Gap" seems to corroborate) that the majority of DFLers are women. If the feminists can't jack the ticket, perhaps it's not the DFL's fault.

Not that Buffett, Unfortunately - Warren Buffett warns that a nuclear terrorist attack of some sort is a virtual certainty.

He's in the insurance business. That's the part that scares me.

Posted by Mitch at May 5, 2002 09:07 PM