"Her actions did not warrant a campaign of this length" is a meaningless phrase. Saying she doesn't deserve an even-handed analysis from the Press is just mind-numbingly moronic (smarter posters, please). You say a "card" should have been thrown in a ditch (because lying about your own life story in order to perpetuate your campaign message is only bad when the white chick does it I guess), but didn't she lose? Wasn't her credibility in tatters at that point? Weren't the only things that even temporarily buoyed her run at that point Obama's stumbles? So you're arguing nothing here. I disagree that her campaign was particularly vicious to use your term, or that viciousness was solely found in her campaign or out of the mouths of her supporters--or that lying, fearmongering, etc apply there, or only to her as it were, as well (saying Bill Clinton not mentioning Obama in a sentence was McCarthyism??). In fact, much of what you've been doing has been rather lame assertion rather than substantiation or really making or pursuing much of an argument whatsoever, to the point where, after three posts of yours saying basically the same hate-filled redundancy, I question why you're persisting; point made, and Obama's the nominee anyway, so the only thing holding you here is your own irrational and hyperbolic hate, spiced with meaningless callouts to misogynistic language. Granted, you're on the boys' club that is The Internet, and therefore you have little perspective as to what is appropriate or not, but that raises the question of why you're so adamant to defend against sexism while at the same time attacking with those tropes, when the corpse is so very very dead.
Note that I didn't say one way or another what your political position was; I only contradicted your erroneous points. You're quoting something I wrote in response to another poster, which is, dare I say, bringing debate into the bogs. The question of how much sexism has cost her, is different than the question of whether or not she as a person has faced sexism during her run, particularly but not limited to in her treatment in the media. Someone with more than three brain cells (ie Howard Dean and Katie Couric, who apparently have at least four, though possibly they teamed up for this one) can appreciate the difference--can you?
