MoDo and the Feminization of the Left

Digby has written on this topic many times, but you won't get a much starker example of the Republican's strategy of feminizing the Democrats as this:

Obama and Edwards make an attractive picture -- Ultra Brite coverboys of youth and glamour united against old men (and women) who worship the status quo. Fraternal twins of yin and yang, one is the healer, the other a fighter. Obama -- the man who makes Chris Matthews feel a thrill up his leg -- wants to "do the Lord's work," lately pictured in front of a Christian cross illuminated with vanity lights on a flier aimed at Kentucky voters, while Edwards wants to roll out the catapults and nuke the Coliseum.

And on and on. The gold standard for this crude attack on the manliness of Republicans and the lack thereof on the Democratic side is of course Maureen Dowd, who continues to inexplicably foul the pages of the Paper of Record each week with her meaningless ramblings on the zeitgeist of politics, I suppose. It was MoDo who referred to Obama as an "anorexic starlet" and wrote a cheap shot piece on Obama that Media Matters took apart here.

Her approach to politics is pathological, snide, gossipy, completely unsupported by facts, and almost mad in its obsession. Her obsessions have drifted from Clinton to Gore, to Clinton and now onto Obama, and I suppose all we can do is sit by and watch. Whether she is focusing on Bill's sex life, Gore's boringness, or Hil's conjugal state, her overriding theme is that the party of the right is virile and strong and the party of the left is effeminate, sissified and downright gay. The Hillary corollary, of course, is that she is butch, bitchy and obsessed, a sci-fi monster who will stop at nothing to destroy Obama and the party. Really? That's what this is all about?

Far be it from me that the Republicans have moved towards the nomination of a 72 year old with questionable health, a Vesuvian temper, a self-confessed ignorance of economics, and little or no knowledge of the most pressing foreign policy issues of the moment. Leave aside the fact that his flip flops, panders, and bald political lies have jumped into high gear, and count that as the unavoidable collateral damage of an election year. I'd still venture to say that there is a column in there for MoDo, but I'm just not sure she'll get around to writing it.