Cojones
In a former life, I used to pound the pavement, knocking on doors on hot sultry Texas afternoons with a voter list prepared by our local paid political hack … er … political consultant. The list guaranteed that we would not be “preaching to the choir,” nor would we be talking to people who were “unavailable to persuasion.” In other words, no “triple D Democrats” and no voters from the Dark Side.
It kept you on your toes.
On one memorable occasion, I knocked on a door that was opened by a big burly gentleman with no neck to speak of, and I asked to talk to his wife, whose name was on my list – but not his. He took one look at my lapel regalia – aka campaign buttons – and asked why I wanted to talk to her.
I immediately saw my mistake and told him that I had the wrong address.
“I think you DO,” he answered to my retreating back.
I might have blown his wife’s cover as a closet Democrat anyway, and for that, I was and am truly sorry.
But this year, women as closet Democrats have their own campaign spokesperson: Julia Roberts.
“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want, and no one will ever know,” she says, in a recently released TV ad.
It’s a secret ballot. You can vote for anyone and anything, and the old man doesn’t need to know about it.
This naturally unleashed a furious male MAGA backlash. How dare they tell women to lie to their husbands! Encouraging infidelity is not strictly OK.
The icing on the cake is who chose to loudly object: Newt Gingrich.
Newt, you will recall, has had a checkered past vis-a-vis his marriages.
Three of them.
But that didn’t stop ol’ Newt from saying this:
“For them to tell people to lie is just one further example of the depth of their corruption. How do you run a country where you’re walking around saying ‘wives should lie to their husbands, husbands should lie to their wives’?”
Indeed.
Gingrich divorced his first wife after her cancer surgery and his second wife while having an affair with his soon-to-be third wife, Callista.
Having the cojones to criticize Democrats for suggesting that wives should lie to their husbands about who they voted for, when he himself felt the need to lie to his wives to cover his infidelities is a little rich.
But to Newt, it’s just another day in politics.
She didn’t say to lie, she just said you don’t have to say anything, which is a time-honored tactic for marital peace…especially on the distaff side..
1How did magats run a country where TFG lied about everything to everyone, Snootie? Perhaps IOKIYAR?
2Newt the Pewt got the Bewt from his speakership decades ago because he was too big a swine for even the Republicans of that era. The guy who literally wrote the book on negative campaigning has no right to tell anyone else what they should be doing in an election.
3The loud and constant badgering, nonstop right wing noise machine, which is controlled by about 75% MSM, lives by their most prized axiom … ‘Lie and Blame the Democrats’.
4While I fully support telling women they don’t have to vote the same way as their husbands or partners, my concern is we should not alert the MAGAs about this. I’ll bet that most of them will insist on mail-in ballots for future elections, so they can hover over and force wives to vote they way their husbands demand.
It’s the one shortcoming of ballots by mail. I’ve known cases where the husband simply filled in both ballots and signed the wife’s signature on one. It’s illegal, but if the woman is faced with a no-neck bully like Half Empty describes, she may value her physical well-being or life too much to complain.
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