Hillary's Revenge, Continued

Hmmmmm....:

Sarah Palin found some unlikely allies Wednesday as leading academics and even former top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed the Republican charge that John McCain’s running mate has been subject to a sexist double standard by the news media and Democrats.

Georgetown University professor Deborah Tannen, who has written best-selling books on gender differences, said she agrees with complaints that Palin skeptics — including prominent voices in the news media — have crossed a line by speculating about whether the Alaska governor is neglecting her family in pursuit of national office.

“What we’re dealing with now, there’s nothing subtle about it,” said Tannen. “We’re dealing with the assumption that child-rearing is the job of women and not men. Is it sexist? Yes.”

“There’s no way those questions would be asked of a male candidate,” said Howard Wolfson a former top strategist for Clinton’s presidential campaign.

This from the same bunch that made a very prominent public spectacle of crying "sexism" against Team Messiah back in the primary season, which was another way of morally condemning Lucifer for denying the Empress her rightful throne - "Sweetiegate" not withstanding. Just, of course, like the opposite result would have generated snarls of "RACISM!" - and, of course, Obamanation rode that card to nominational victory. Not a very....practical result given that there are more women voters in the country than African-American voters.

Which makes the defamation campaign against Governor Palin by The One's nutter surrogates this week all the more self-defeatingly foolish, as evidenced by this rather stark admission of weakness in the face of a genuinely strong woman: 

Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday…

Obama aides said they were counting on not only Mrs. Clinton but also Democratic female governors to rebut Mrs. Palin — and, by extension, Mr. McCain. Those governors include Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas…

“What McCain has done with Governor Palin’s nomination is aim right at a demographic that Obama needs to address quickly: noncollege-educated women,” said Mike McCurry, a former spokesman in the Clinton White House. “They need to maximize Biden’s ability to reach out to them, but at the end of the day, it is Obama who has to get that very, very critical group.”…

Advisers to Mrs. Clinton said that she stood ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged the campaign not to overestimate the impact Mrs. Clinton could have, noting that she had other commitments this fall, like campaigning and raising money for Senate candidates.

There's an old joke that goes, "What do you have when you hold two tiny green objects in your hand? Answer: Kermit's undivided attention." False Messiah rode his ethnicity to the Democrat nomination, but burned quite a few gender bridges behind him en route. He could have repaired those bridges in one fell swoop by taking Her Nib on as his running mate, even though he would have been condemning himself to four years as a de facto figurehead. He could also have repaired those bridges by picking Governors Sebelius or Napolitano, or at the very least from the short list of female Donk Senate colleagues, which would have made an undying enemy of Medusa but blunted any attempted sabotage from La Clinton Nostra down the fall home stretch. Instead, he went with what amounts to a white, twenty-years-older version of himself, Joe "Gaffe-A-Minute" Biden, leaving the door wide open for John McCain to blow everybody away with Sarah Palin.

Now Barack Obama is in the worst place imaginable: right where Hillary Clinton wants him. At her never-tender mercy. He needs her to rally the PUMAs to his banner or risk getting swamped by Palinmania, and they both know it.

And in that context comes several top Clintonoids promptly stoking the "sexism" fires again, and Hillary coyly pledging to play the good soldier (heck, she DID put Barry over the top in Denver last week) but dousing it in a deluge of patently phony modesty and "scheduling conflicts."

Given the dismal fate of pretty much every Democrat for whom Bill and/or Hillary have ever campaigned, I'm baffled that the Chief Stumbling Block wants either of them on the same continent. I wonder if he realizes just how disappointed Jesse Jackson is going to be to find that Mrs. Clinton got to his own set first.

UPDATE: J-Ger imagines the phone call:

"Hey, sorry about that bitter primary thing, calling your husband racist, and the lack of campaign debt relief. Could you do me a favor and alienate a certain portion of your voters, obliterate your newfound respect from some corners of the right, and incinerate your chance to head a Democratic ticket in 2012 by making a kamikaze run at America's newest sweetheart, in order to save my tuchus? Thanks."