The "adult in the room" is the most immature campaign ever

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Excerpt James Taranto online.wsj.com

An especially odd statement: “[It’s] also super uncool to be out and about, and someone says, ‘Did you vote?’ and [you say], ‘No, I didn’t feel–I wasn’t ready.’ ” The Washington Examiner’s Joel Gehrke notes that Dunham seems to be mocking sexual innocence: “If a girl’s not ready, she’s not ready. The president, who has two daughters, surely understands that.”

Slate’s L.V. Anderson notes that Dunham was 22 in 2008, which means she was eligible to vote four years earlier. Why didn’t she? Anderson suggests Dunham’s 2004 reticence was a product not of modesty but of hypergamous selectivity: “I’d rather lose my voting virginity to Barack Obama than John Kerry, too.”

He has the hat to this day.

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