“Tonight, I call on the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower that will wilt at any moment. This woman is from Alaska, for crying out loud. She is strong. She is tough. She is confident. And you claim she’s ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. If that is the case, then end this chauvinistic treatment of her now. Allow her to show her stuff. Allow her to face down those pesky reporters, just like Barack Obama did today, just like John McCain did today, just like Joe Biden has done on numerous occasions. Let her have a real news conference with real questions.
“By treating Sarah Palin different from the other candidates in this race, you’re not showing her the respect she deserves. Free Sarah Palin. Free her from the chauvinistic chains you’re binding her with. Sexism in this campaign must come to an end. Sarah Palin has just as much a right to be a real candidate in this race as the men do. So, let her act like one. We’re going to have more on Palin’s cloistered day coming up in just a moment.”
This has come up many times in other contexts.
My personal visual of Palin’s interaction (or lack thereof) with the media is that the McCain campaign threw bubble-wrap a virtual blanket over her, and she helpfully grabbed the edges and pulled it tightly over her head.
So…. is it sexism when the perceived victim deliberately colludes with the villains?
Added: Shhhhh!!! No talking!
Campbell Brown’s remarks strike me as idiotic! The “Free Sarah Palin” call reminds me a little of what the suffragettes were shouting many years ago in this country.
Collusion? As in “secret agreement or cooperation for an illegal or deceitful purpose”? What collusion? I don’t think that McCain had the vaguest idea what he was getting into when he proposed her as his running mate.
Nor do I think the press or anyone else has the vaguest idea of what to make of her. And, because she cannot be precisely pinpointed, particularly in re foreign policy (to name just one example), “everyone” seems to be running around in circles like crazy trying to figure out ways to attack her before she (Heaven forbid!) gets elected into office.
Then, of course, if she does happen to be elected, she will quite simply disappear into the woodwork (as all good Vice Presidents do!). I just hope she doesn’t ‘disappear’ before the election. She adds pizzazz to the campaign.
Will there be a Vice Presidential debate? There’s probably one already scheduled. I just haven’t been paying attention. Now THAT I would be very interested in watching and listening to. I know that Obama and McCain are squaring off against each other Friday night. I will not be watching. BOWring!!
But ‘collusion’? No, I don’t think so. At least, not as I understand the definition.
I thought it was a stupid comment too.
She is complicit, 100%
The American people should be demanding that she answer any questions that the media or the people have.
If she doesn’t or won’t then she should not be the VP and McCain should not be elected. plain and simple.