Right-Wing Cringe Corner

I have been trying to ignore the coverage of Sarah Palin's bizarre pre-4th July rant as of late, and failing. As much as I am a proponent of the (non-religious) policies she supports, words cannot describe just how stupid this woman is. So I won't try write much more as she simply irritates me. In all likelihood she has no idea what the policies she is supporting actually mean anyway.



Can't the Republicans get a more intelligent example of their party than this? She is tokenism at its worst. It must be nigh on impossible to interview the woman as she is so damn stupid.

She can't compare with an educated articulate woman such as this:



Then I am reminded that New Zealand politics seems to have a three pronged answer to Sarah Palin at present. All supposedly centre-right wing supporting women who Fran O'Sullivan pointed out John Key has propelled as the new female-friendly face of the National Party. However all in their own way turning out to be collectively as dreadful. Whereas the left at least have women who on their University paper are smart, ambitious and driven (albeit for the wrong reasons), we are stuck with the following:

tried hard but even Duncan Garner took her apart.

time bomb waiting to fully explode.

And the worst....

if she is the answer what was the question?

All three I offer in support of the fact you don't just go promoting a woman like Mai Chen and her new cabal wish, just because they are a woman.

They have to be up to the job. Here are two examples of women that clearly are:





I'm struggling to find more than a handful of examples of very senior National Party propelled women who have been up to it based on current form.