In the past month, the national spotlight has been shined on the special election occurring in New York’s 23rd congressional district. For those who haven’t been paying attention, the special election was triggered when the 23rd’s longtime Republican congressman John McHugh was selected by President Obama to become Secretary of the Army. The Republican county chairs of the district selected Dede Scozzafava (pictured above, far right), state Assemblywoman from the 122nd district, as their candidate to replace McHugh. Scozzafava is a notorious RINO, being in favor of abortion, gay marriage, and card check, and her congressional campaign was supported by a bevy of left-wing groups including the AFL-CIO, the New York State United Teachers, and the United Auto Workers. She was even cross-endorsed by the Working Families Party, the political wing of ACORN, who normally backs Democrats in Empire State elections. Naturally, the conservatives that form the GOP’s base were unhappy with the leftist Dede’s selection, so most have switched to backing the Conservative Party candidate, Lake Placid businessman Doug Hoffman (pictured above, far left). Recent polls have shown Hoffman in a dead heat with the Democratic candidate, Plattsburgh lawyer Bill Owens (pictured above, center), and Scozzafava in a distant third.
Last Saturday, a scant three days before the election, Scozzafava announced that she was dropping out of the race. She explains why in the video to the right (hat tip: Irene Jay Liu). Take note of her appearance. Her eyes are watery and bloodshot, her cheeks are flushed, and her voice is broken. It’s blatantly obvious that she was crying before coming on camera. If this sounds familiar, here’s a more famous video to jog your memory.
Conservative blogger Fishersville Mike has compared the NY-23 special election to last year’s Democratic primary for president:
Look at the opponents. Hillary/Dede Scozzafava were both the establishment candidates.
Obama/Hoffman were the insurgents.
Image courtesy of The BEAST
The parallels run deeper then that. Both Clinton and Scozzafava were basically anointed by their respective parties and were expected to win election easily. Hillary as President was a running joke on talk radio shows going back to the early months of the Bush administration. Neither Clinton nor Scozzafava had faced a serious electoral challenge in their careers – Scozzafava has held onto her Assembly seat for a decade and Clinton was elected to the Senate in a heavily Democratic state, based solely on her surname, and facing token Republican opposition. But then, male challengers arose out of nowhere to give them a run for their money. Neither expected a fight and were solidly clobbered once the people had their say. And both of them started crying like spoiled children when they didn’t get their way. “This is my nomination, MY time to shine! How dare this MAN try to take away what is rightfully MINE!”
Last week, Female Masculinist posted a satirical guide dissecting feminist debate tactics. She attributes the feminist inability to debate in good faith to the fact that modern educational institutions are so overwhelmingly feminist that those who adhere to that viewpoint can coast on through without having their ideas challenged once. However, I’m becoming convinced that women in general can not only not handle debate, but competition in general. Why is this? The majority of women in the West live their lives with little challenge or struggle, as Chuck Ross stated in his piece “Women Aren’t Funny – Sorry“:
Your average, run-of-the-mill woman doesn’t have to overcome anything. As Hitchens points out, women find nothing ironic about their station in life. Being the object of male attention isn’t a bad gig. Being considered “sugar, spice, and everything nice” won’t create the slanted worldview that is usually considered funny. Raising children and being all motherly begets a certain sense of responsibility which is antithetical to ironic notions about the world.
As I wrote nearly a month ago, the solipsism of the modern woman is partially the result of their insulation from the consequences from their mistakes, putting them intellectually at the level of spoiled brats. And like spoiled brats, women start crying and throwing tantrums when someone shows them up in a fair and honest competition. They throw out baseless accusations and make personal attacks because it’s all they know how to do. Scozzafava has even gone one step further, endorsing the Democrat Owens in a last-ditch effort to deny Hoffman what she couldn’t win fair and square, the equivalent of an angry child pissing in the sandbox he was kicked out of to ruin everyone else’s fun. “If I can’t have it, YOU can’t either!”
I was confronted with this unfortunate flaw of the female species on my own blog recently. A little over two weeks ago, I wrote a response to relationship advice writer Susan Walsh, who attacked me in a post on her blog. My post was relatively respectful, focused on dissecting and deconstructing her flawed worldview and the ill-informed advice that sprang from it. Mrs. Walsh responded several days later, and I wrote another post focused on logically dissembling the points she made. Her final response on that post (my comments are bolded and in brackets) mostly consisted of hysterical screeching, personal insults, and complete falsehoods (such as her baseless attack on the ladies of Girl Game). When challenged on her beliefs, she folded like a slice of Swiss cheese.
With the occasional exception, females are ill-suited for careers like politics due to their inability to compete in a fair and honest way. If it weren’t for the fact that our egalitarian world is focused on getting us to deny reality, there wouldn’t BE many women in competitive fields. If women are playing checkers, men are playing chess.
And here’s to seeing Mr. Hoffman go to Washington.
(Image at top courtesy of Political Rapids & Current Events.)
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Ferdinand Bardamu is a former resident of New York’s 23rd and 25th congressional districts. He blogs at In Mala Fide. You can follow him on Twitter here.
