Hi, everyone!
MamaDork went home last night after a very good time together. However, as exposure to my non-New York/blogging/feminist life always does, the visit brought up a number of quandries and queries, which I’ll be spinning into a few posts this week.
I have a little bit of non-Mom life to catch up on, but I’ll get something up later today. In the meantime, since I haven’t been watching much news lately, who in the States can give me the local scoop on yesterday’s primary elections?
Glad you had a great time with MamaDork!
It was a big night for women with the Sarah Palin Stamp of Approval. Meg Whitman’s millions are going up against Jerry Brown in the general election for CA governor. Carly Fiorina won her primary to run against Barbara Boxer. Nikki Haley just barely avoided a runoff in S. Carolina but it looks like she’ll have little problem winning that. Blanche Lincoln sadly evaded the anti-incumbent wrath. The bright spot is Kamala Harris winning the Dem primary for California AG.
Oh, and Sharron Angle, the seriously right-wing candidate (wants further Wall St deregulation, likes the idea of reinstating Prohibition, and wants to be rid of the Dept of Energy) who wants to unseat Harry Reid beat Sue “let’s pay our medical bills in chickens” Lowden.
Sharron Angle makes a cold chill run down my spine. There’s no way she will beat Harry Reid, right? RIGHT?
I sincerely hope not. Her views are so extreme. Harry Reid is no great progressive prize himself but against Sharron Angle he looks like the leftest of the lefties.
Long story short, great rhetorical strides were made last night in the quest to get rid of the filibuster. For some reason, a right-to-work state that goes redder than red for GOP presidents every election year failed to vote in the candidate endorsed by MoveOn and the Daily Kos. Imagine that.
It wasn’t a good night, I’m afraid. This is an example of how women winning is not necessarily a good thing for women.
I hear that, MM, but I wonder if it is can still be good for women. Like, it normalizes women in elected office, maybe? Having caught up on some of the stories (after wading through the van der Sloot crap which is EVERYWHERE), I’m in need of some positive spin.