Wendy Button is a riled-up ex-speechwriter for the Dems and an alum of the Edwards campaign and Saint John University, who yesterday wrote a blog post for The Daily Beast detailing her decision to vote republican this election. Button is voting conservative because, she writes, “I can’t dismiss the treatment of women and working people… [and] in the spirit of election 2008, I’ll get a manicure, pedicure, and my hair done.”

In The Daily Beast, Button elaborates:

Not only has this party belittled working people in this campaign from Joe the Plumber to the bitter comments, it has also been part of tearing down two female candidates. At first, certain Democrats and the press called Senator Clinton “dishonest.” They went after her cleavage. They said her experience as First Lady consisted of having tea parties. There was no outrage over “Bros before Hoes” or “Iron My Shirt.” Did Senator Clinton make mistakes? Of course. She’s human…

 

Everyone knows that when it comes to appearance, there’s a double standard for women politicians. Remember the speech Speaker Pelosi gave on the floor the day of the bailout vote? Check out how many stories commented on her hair that day and how many mentioned Congressman Barney Frank’s.

Here we are discussing Governor Palin’s clothes—oh wait, now we’re on to the make-up—not what either man is going to do to save our economy. This isn’t an accident. It is part of a manufactured narrative that she is stupid.

Well, somebody’s got their fallopian tubes in a twist! What else could be the reason for Button abandoning reasoned argument and falling into a pit of visceral, rah-rah blind grrrrl power and angsty bloviation? What else could be the reason for her failure to acknowledge that members of both parties are sometimes sexist, classist, ageist, and racist?

It is obviously untrue to say that “there was no outrage over ‘Bros before hoes’ or ‘Iron my shirt.’” Perhaps Button’s been a bit too busy cultivating her own outrage to notice articles written in publications ranging from the Huffington Post to the New York Daily News this January. Or maybe she was too occupied with fawning over Palin, that “mother [that] brings her son with special needs onto the national stage with love, honesty, and pride,” to notice Rush Limbaugh drooling, “Sarah Palin: babies, guns, Jesus. Hot damn!”

It’s poorly articulated and illogical diatribes like these that provide sexists with ammunition to disregard feminists as “hysterical.” But no republican would ever do that, right?