Yesterday, we learned that voters were polled on whether Barbara Boxer or Carly Fiorina has better hair. Even without the 2008 election’s bombast (Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin), the past year has been rather rocky for women in politics. Some lowlights:
1) Public Policy Research’s question about the really important stuff in the California Senate race had its own illustrious background: Carly Fiorina being caught on camera calling Boxer’s hair “so yesterday.”
2) Further proof that some women need no help from men to commit gender fails, Colorado’s Jane Norton recently attacked her opponent, Ken Buck, in the Republican gubernatorial primary by saying he wasn’t “man enough.” He responded at a public event that Coloradans should vote for him, “Because I do NOT wear high heels.” Having successfully baited Buck, Norton is currently fundraising with the tagline, “Ken Buck may think a woman’s place is in the house. We know a woman’s place is in the Senate.” Too bad her policy positions would limit women’s choices.
3) “I did not go out with her, but other guys did.” — Noted Heterosexual/Disgraced Democrat/Guy Who Wouldn’t Bone Elena Kagan But Knows Others Did Eliot Spitzer, on the current Supreme Court Nominee. Also, one word for political commentators: Softball.