Anonymous Blunt supporter: Missouri needs a male Senator for "balance"
Holy sexism, Batman!
Buried in a new National Journal story on the potential role of gender in the Blunt/Steelman primary, we find one heck of claim from a Roy Blunt supporter:
Gender Back In Focus In Missouri Race
Tuesday, April 28, 2009Gender politics has a renewed focus in the open Missouri Senate race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Christopher (Kit) Bond, in part because of last year's vice presidential candidacy of GOP Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
The issue will first come into play in the developing GOP primary between former House Minority Whip Roy Blunt and former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman, who just launched an exploratory committee...
Some Republican strategists pointed out that Palin used gender but in a way that didn't resonate, as pocketbook issues superseded social ones in the 2008 race. Steelman, some say, is in a better position, as she has begun to develop a reputation as "Palin with an economics degree."
Such assessments rankle Steelman. "People don't scrutinize male Republicans who run for office like that," she said, suggesting a "different standard for women than for men."...
A Republican in Blunt's camp countered that with Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill already in office, Missouri voters might be better served balancing that with a male.
Really? What does this anonymous member of Blunt camp think Roy Blunt's boy parts will enable him to do in the Senate? Why is this anonymous Blunt person afraid of two female Senators?
