Let’s Take Them Up On Their Challenge To Choose Between Liberal And Wingnut Women

by Charles Topher 

It’s no secret that wingnuts are shallow, misogynist creatures who put very little value in women. The Republican cabal is allowed to continue its war on women’s healthcare rights while ignoring calls for wage equality because their base won’t penalize them for considering women “less than.”
Nowhere is this fact more true than on social media, where memes like the one below show exactly what wingnuts value about women:

To compare a group of women, most of whom wingnuts couldn’t identify if they wanted to, by their looks alone is quite possibly the dumbest thing ever conceived. We moved out of caves tens of thousands of years ago. We stopped judging women exclusively by how they look shortly thereafter.
Or, those of us with any kind of real-world sensibilities did anyway.
For the sake of argument, let’s do a three-way tag match and have a little fun with the insane logic that a book can be judged by its cover. To keep things fair, we’ll use one TV personality and two politicians from each side and have ourselves a little side-by-side comparison.

Round 1 – Janet Napolitano Vs. Sarah Palin, both former governors.

Janet Napolitano is a graduate of Santa Clara University with a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia. She served as US Attorney for the district of Arizona and Arizona’s Attorney General before being elected governor of Arizona, serving from 2003 to 2009. She was then appointed Secretary of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013 and has since served as the President of the University of California. Napolitano is considered a front-runner should a seat on the US Supreme Court become vacant while a Democrat is in office.
In 2000, Napolitano spoke at the Democratic National Convention shortly after having a mastectomy. She refused to allow cancer to define her, and as a survivor has gone on to continue a brilliant career as a politician and educator.
Sarah Palin got a degree in journalism after hopscotching to four different schools in six years. She did a short stint as a sportscaster and after marrying well, helped her husband with his fishing business. After falling backwards into a career in politics as mayor of Wasilla, Palin somehow managed to get elected Governor of Alaska, but quit halfway through her term because John McCain needed a woman the base would find attractive as a running mate.
Sarah Palin has never accomplished anything of consequence, was recently let go as a commentator for Fox News, gave up on a subscription-based failure of a TV channel and got dropped from reality TV for being too boring.
In 2008 Palin winked at the crowd at the republican national coven and coined the phrase “youbetcha,” which had already been coined before.
Winner: Napolitano

Round 2 – Nancy Pelosi vs. Michele Bachmann, US House Of Representatives.

Nancy Pelosi, a Notre Dame graduate, began serving in the House in 1987. Her notable career of nearly thirty years includes a year as House minority whip and four years as Speaker Of The House from 2007-2011. She currently serves as House Minority Leader. Pelosi has stood firm on her beliefs that women should control their own healthcare choices, that religion has no place in public schools and has been vehemently opposed to any kind of military action against Iran since the Bush administration first suggested it in 2007 as the next phase of their plan to take over the oil-rich world.
Pelosi is credited with spearheading the Affordable Care Act, which has now provided healthcare to more than 30 million previously uninsured Americans, as well as the federal minimum wage increase of 2007.
Michele Bachmann, a graduate of Oral Roberts University, is a nutcase. Not even her master’s degree in tax law from William and Mary can compensate for her batshit crazy religious views, which have skewered any chance she ever had of being considered a rational human being. A founding member of the now dying teabagger caucus, Bachmann has stood firm on her beliefs that women need to be regulated at every level of government to save zygotes and that schools should dump the “junk science” of evolution in favor of creationism and prayer.
Bachmann, who has never been taken seriously by anyone, also stood up for whatever financial reform the Koch brothers stood for, as long as they continued to feed her the insanity that they were doing it all for Jesus. She isn’t credited with spearheading anything of consequence other than witch hunts and wild accusations that the President was spending billions of dollars to have the entire Navy escort him to India.
Winner: Pelosi

Round 3 – Rachel Maddow vs. Dana Loesch, television personalities.

Rachel Maddow is the first openly gay recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship, which helped her earn a doctorate in political philosophy from Oxford University, considered by many to be the best school in the world. A brilliant commentator, Maddow’s talents moved her through the ranks of radio, ultimately landing her with a television show that has blossomed into a bastion of liberal politics on MSNBC. Maddow’s insights have been sought after for years, and her contributions to television and radio have certainly no gone unnoticed, earning her the following awards:

• Emmy Award in the Outstanding News Discussion and Analysis category for “The Rachel Maddow Show” episode “Good Morning Landlocked Central Asia!”
• Maddow won a Gracie Award in 2009, presented by the American Women in Radio and Television.
• On March 28, 2009, Maddow received a Proclamation of Honor from the California State Senate, presented in San Francisco by California State Senator Mark Leno..
• In July 2010, Maddow was presented with a Maggie Award for her ongoing reporting of healthcare reform, the murder of Dr. George Tiller, and the anti-abortion movement.
• In August 2010, Maddow won the Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award, which was presented by the Interfaith Alliance. Past honorees included Larry King, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings.
• In February 2012, Maddow was presented the John Steinbeck Award by the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University.

Maddow also earned numerous distinctions and awards for her role in the LGBT community and too many nominations for awards to list.
Dana Loesch is a college dropout who built a successful radio show on a voice wingnut men just love. A liberal that campaigned for Bill Clinton, Loesh says she became a wingnut when she became a mother because she no longer agreed with the political ideologies of liberals. That happened to coincide with her marriage to a moron Republican. After 9/11, Loesch went all the way to the “I hate muslim” lunatic fringe. After a brief stint as a commentator on CNN during a time when the network tried a move further toward the lunatic fringe, her fear mongering and hate landed her a show on The Blaze, the propaganda sellout machine of fake crier Glenn Beck. She’s received some honorable mentions from right-wing media but never won an award of consequence from anyone with any credibility.
Winner: Maddow
It seems the wingnut theory that women who present better (to some) physically makes them somehow superior is yet another side-effect of the stupidity virus that runs rampant in their circles. Memes like this degrade women for no reason and provide nothing other than a sexist point of view.