re: #85 Gus

This is just what I remember from the 2008 primaries — a level of misogyny that kind of floored me. At the time the Republicans were really much more civil about Obama, principally because they were so completely shocked by his, er skin color. They had not developed a socially acceptable vocabulary in which to articulate that horrible otherness. Blatant and vile misogyny was (and evidently still is) way more socially acceptable than blatant and vile racism.

On which topic, this study is totally worth a read: