re: #330 Cato the Elder

You might as well give me credit for my pun. What I said was, “If Barack Obama is Chance the Gardener, Sarah Palin is…his hoe.”

[rimshot]

And yes, she’s a whore. I’ve never met a politician who isn’t.

Cato, I like you loads and agree with you on many things, and I certainly share your distaste for Palin. I have a potty-mouth myself and a love for the filthy turn of phrase.

But some of your Palin jokes go over the line, IMO. I agree all politicians are whores, but you’re too smart and frankly too good a person not to realise that using the word ‘ho’ or ‘whore’ or ‘hoe’ in reference to a female pol carries a lot of baggage. I don’t think it reflects who you really are as a person; you’re better and more clever than that.

And I’m surely not the only female poster here, regardless of ideological identification, who finds that kind of phrasing distasteful.

Just my opinion and all. Sorry if it sounded like a lecture, I don’t mean it to be.