Not the first time he’s knocked her but Rudy has had this field largely to himself for awhile and it’s time that changed. Here’s a quick jab, reminiscent of his famous rejoinder to Michael Moore, courtesy of Fred File. He offered some pointed substantive criticism of Spitzer’s dopey idea yesterday when speaking to reporters. I wish he’d included that here.
But not as much as I wish he’d included this:
“The Clinton campaign goes so far in relying upon her being a strong, strong woman … and then on a dime, they can switch to say, ‘Oh my goodness, the men are ganging up on her,” Thompson said, referring to the Clinton campaign’s latest message. “You can’t have that both ways in American politics and they’re just beginning to find that out.”
An excellent point, especially given the popularity of her damsel-in-distress “politics of pile on” viral video. The GOP has to be careful about addressing gender given how well Hillary’s doing with women voters, but they also need to head off the double standard he’s talking about here at the pass, and quickly. By bringing it up with Hannity, Fred’s trying to hand it off to the media and let them do the work. Shrewd.
Update: No need for the GOP to push the gender meme, as it turns out. It’s already been launched. Thanks, Obama!
“I am assuming and I hope that Sen. Clinton wants to be treated like everybody else,” the Illinois senator said in an interview with NBC’s “Today Show.”
“When we had a debate back in Iowa awhile back, we spent I think the first 15 minutes of the debate hitting me on various foreign policy issues. And I didn’t come out and say: ‘Look, I’m being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage’,” he said…
He was speaking a day after New York Sen. Clinton — the only woman running for president — urged women voters to rally behind her against “the boys club of presidential politics.”…
“So it doesn’t make sense for her, after having run that way for eight months, the first time that people start challenging her point of view, that suddenly she backs off and says: ‘Don’t pick on me’,” he said.
“That is not obviously how we would expect her to operate if she were president.”
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