GOP Tries To Make Political Gains Via Misogynistic Attacks

by Jen Nedeau · 2009-05-23 10:30:00 UTC
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It's no wonder the Republican Party is losing female voters in droves. Check out this recent publicity stunt, where the RNC Tags Pelosi ‘Pussy Galore’ in Video. Politico explains:

She's the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history.

But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National Committee wants you to think "Pussy Galore."

At least that's the takeaway from a video released by the committee this week - a video that puts Pelosi side-by-side with the aforementioned villainess from the 1964 James Bond film "Goldfinger."

The RNC video, which begins with the speaker's head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the use of waterboarding in 2002. While the P-word is never mentioned directly, in one section the speaker appears in a split screen alongside the Bond nemesis - and the video's tagline is "Democrats Galore."

This is not the first instance of the GOP using misogynistic remarks to denigrate the Speaker of the House. Take a look at this video, which makes the GOP's cries of sexism toward Sarah Palin earlier this year seem hypocritical.

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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