The Lyin-ization of GOP Women

Carly Fiorina is a horrible surrogate for McSame (and let's face it, she's pretty darn "uppity, too). (See: Palin can't run a corporation. But neither can McCain. Or Obama or Biden. Just me.)

But don't forget Carly was an even worse business leader. She depressed the stock and morale of a solid corporation, and left with 21 million dollars in "severance."

In a true sense, the Fiorina placed in front of the cameras by McCain's camp has been blessed with a very similar whitewashing of history and thus, myth, to the whitewashing and myth created by McCain's advisors for Sarah Palin.

Look at these Top 10 Reasons People Hate Carly Fiorina, from BusinessPundit.com:

10. She didn’t take the time to build trust.
9. She didn’t provide numbers to back up her promises.
8. She favored market dogma over innovation.
7. During her time in office, she didn’t successfully implement her own vision.
6. She failed to preserve HP’s key cultural assets.
5. She lacked focus.
4. She didn’t listen.
3. She was a bad manager.
2. She was a bad leader.
1. She won’t admit to her own failures.

Shucks-- replace the "she/her" with "he/his" and "HP" with "America" and that's President George W. Bush.

Now compare this list to the New York Times front page article this Sunday, "Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes," examining Palin's very short tenure as Governor.

The Times article suggests, in part: Palin didn't stay around long enough in the state capital to gain anyone's trust, she favored loyalty over competence, she ignored the key components of the legislative process required in a democracy, and she was pretty vindictive, to such an extent it clouded her judgment.

Now add this picture of Palin next to the a few (of the many) contradictory myths pushed by the love-is-blind GOP: Sarah hates earmarks! (she actively sought extreme levels of earmarks both as mayor and Governor, and even kept and spent the millions in Federal Bridge to Nowhere funds), Sarah knows Russia! (it's geographically close), Sarah fought the oil companies! (she raised taxes on them, but McCain would rather die than do this), Sarah is a Reformer! (she made random budget cuts in a room alone with her un-elected husband, and she also supported corrupt Senator Ted Stevens, solely because he had seniority in the Senate and could bring home the pork).

The GOP adores their woman leaders, but only as symbols. Not as fully realized individuals. They cannot wait to transform these women into non-descript fictional characters celebrating personality traits more common to GOP males (Snark, hunting, and flags combined with blind loyalty, blind ideology, and free market first!). Why aren't more women in the U.S. not publicly outraged at the deep chauvinism fueling such "lionization" (lyinization?) of GOP women by the GOP white male elders (i.e., the Republican Party)?