GOP misogyny

You knew it had to happen. Someone was eventually going to trot out the "C" word against Hillary. And one of the O.G. GOP dirty trickers, Roger Stone, finally did with a brand new 527 called "Citizens United Not Timid." I'll let you figure out the acronym. Mainly they seem to exist to sell nasty t-shirts.

From the TPMuckraker blog:

In addition to this website being blast-emailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses that Stone and [another GOP operative] have accumulated over the years (working off over 170 different email lists of everyone from opinion-makers to political activists to industry associations), Stone is counting on T-shirt sales to further serve as "billboard education." He figures the whole thing will end up taking on a viral nature, thanks to the yuks factor....

"The more people go to the site, the more people buy the T-shirts," Stone explains.... "The more people buy the T-shirts, the more people wear the T-shirts. The more people wear the T-shirts, the more people are educated. Consequently, our mission has been achieved." Though neither the word itself nor even the acronym is ever mentioned, "it's one-word education. That's our mission. No issues. No policy groups. No position papers. This is a simple committee with an unfortunate acronym...."

The optimist side of me that believes that people are basically decent hopes that such naked misogyny will turn off Republican voters. But the cynical side of me, the side that has been the subject of lots of nasty comments from (mostly conservative) men who denigrate me on the basis of my gender rather than my crazy ideas and call me all sorts of names including the C word above, wonders if it's not just exposing a base sentiment shared by a good many of my fellow Americans. That would make me sad.