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"Her message is unapologetically emasculating."

By Ann Althouse

Hillary's message is:

If he does not have the gumption to put me in my place, when superdelegates are deserting me, money is drying up, he?s outspending me 2-to-1 on TV ads, my husband?s going crackers and party leaders are sick of me, how can he be trusted to totally obliterate Iran and stop Osama?

Crackers. Crackers, indeed. Are we allowed to say "crackers"? Well, we can say waffles, so why not, in the grand scheme of bad carbohydrates, say crackers?

Anyway, that's Maureen Dowd, wielding extreme Dowdiness this morning:

In the final days in Pennsylvania, he dutifully logged time at diners and force-fed himself waffles, pancakes, sausage and a Philly cheese steak. He split the pancakes with Michelle, left some of the waffle and sausage behind, and gave away the French fries that came with the cheese steak.

But this is clearly a man who can?t wait to get back to his organic scrambled egg whites. That was made plain with his cri de coeur at the Glider Diner in Scranton when a reporter asked him about Jimmy Carter and Hamas.

?Why? he pleaded, sounding a bit, dare we say, bitter, ?can?t I just eat my waffle??

His subtext was obvious: Why can?t I just be president? Why do I have to keep eating these gooey waffles and answering these gotcha questions and debating this gonzo woman?

Gooey... gotcha... gonzo...

What's the next word in that series?

Gonad!

She's so emasculating.

Full post as published by Althouse on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).