A Difference
By Mitch Berg
Bob Collins over at NewsCut is going to be liveblogging MPR’s “Midmorning” show. The subject?:
Does a candidate’s gender really make a difference? That’s one of the questions we’re exploring this morning during the first hour of MPR’s Midmorning.
A better question, perhaps – to whom does it make a difference?
How many Hillary Clinton supporters out there want to vote for a woman – any woman? (Check out the podcast of Ed and my broadcast from the convention last Thursday, with the two Hillary supporters who’d switched to Palin while driving home from the DNC).
Still – read some of the “feminist” response to Palin’s nomination; it seems the only “gender” issue that matters to most of them is abortion.
Ironically, among the base at whom Palin was really aimed – the Reagan coalition of 1980 – Palin could have been male, female, black, Hindu, or damn near anything, as long as he/she conveyed the three emerging messages of this campaign:
- Flyover land matters
- The GOP needs to be the party of integrity
- America – *%$$ yeah!
(Along with “Drill oil, split atoms, create energy”, of course).
