Try as they might to avoid it, Republicans attempting to hide their paleolithic attitudes toward women (and non-whites and non-straight people) are being exposed. The most recent example is "Dim Jim" Hagedorn, Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 1st District. In the past, on his blog "Mr. Conservative," Hagedorn had some deep Conservative thoughts:
Lest anyone challenge his bona fides, Hagedorn wanted to make abundantly clear he was a straight white male. "Senator McCain's campaign was all but flat lined before he brought the feisty Caribou Barbie into our living rooms," he wrote in 2008. "Which reminds me, on behalf of all red-blooded American men: THANK YOU SENATOR McCAIN, SARAH'S HOT!"
Not all female politicians were viewed as favorably. In a 2002 post, Hagedorn referred to Washington Democratic Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray as "undeserving bimbos in tennis shoes." Former Bush White House counsel Harriet Miers, he wrote in 2005, had been nominated "to fill the bra of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor." (our emphasis)We haven't seen his footwear, but we're going to say "Dim Jim" is an undeserving himbo in
