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The Girls of NOW Lose to Sen. Kennedy at a Game of Liar’s Poker

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[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]Funniest and funnest story of the week is about the sassy girls who hang out at the radical National Organization for (Irreversibly Unattractive) Women. They accused Sen. Ted Kennedy of gross betrayal.

Clutching the slender handbook of “NOW and Then” rules, which say only liberal men are allowed to batter women, the girls blew up when Mr. Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

“We stood up for you almost 40 years ago when you killed that girl at Chappaquiddick,” they said.

“We are repaid,” they added furiously in a prepared statement, “with his abandonment.”

We Lied for You, You Lie for Us

In 1969, the girls of NOW lied for the drunken Mr. Kennedy when he drove an innocent body into a body of water, and now they expect the liar to stand up for them in their phony crusade. Tsk, tsk. Weren’t we taught as children there is no honor among thieves?

How, they wondered, could Mr. Kennedy have lent his name to a dreaded man, a scion of the enemy gender, when feminists are trying to elect the first girl President?

Sadly, the girls of NOW were deadly serious about their protest.

You may recall one President ago, when Mr. Clinton was seducing vulnerable women and stacking them up as if they were poker chips, the girls of NOW chickened out of criticizing a liberal. They bravely dived under a couch.

By worming out of sight, the girls put the lie once again to the claimed veracity of their mission statement. They hid out until the heat receded and a husband who is faithful to his wife was elected to office.


Tell Me What You Believe

It is the pathetic history of this club of disingenuous man-haters that the politics of the assaulter determines his guilt and whether NOW will take a public stand.

Unlike MADD and other sincere victim-centric organizations, the bimbos of NOW are willing, open-mouthed stooges for the liberal establishment. They are no more interested in fairness and equality for all women than I am for bimbos.


It’s All in the Script

Rants such as those they carefully staged this week for the cameras and print reporters actually are fundraisers. Such screaming exposure on television and in newspapers shrewdly spikes their donations for a few days.

But these embarrassing cavortings only cause women who are sincere feminists to roll their eyes.

You see, a bimbo bigot, like a tiger, never changes her stripes.

The sprinkling of well-intentioned women who are attracted to NOW soon are overwhelmed by reality. It’s like joining the Ku Klux Klan to give a boost to Bed, Bath & Beyond. Shortly, well-meaning new NOW members face three narrow options:



Join the drum-bangers and enjoy the easy access to America’s glut of liberal journals.


Put your head down and plough on alone, trying to spread sparse seeds of goodwill among women who genuinely are victims.


Withdraw.


The New York chapter’s formal statement sounded like sappy schoolgirl satire you would find in an eighth-grade play instead of being the work of women who are supposedly mature.

“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal,” the statement reads.

“He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman President who is Hillary Clinton.”

The chapter said, seriously, it is the obligation of each member of the proper gender “to elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who know what is best for us.”

Not to be outdone, the Washington chapter of NOW stomped its feet and issued a more restrained statement in the name of NOW President Kim Gandy:



A Dash of Common Sense

“The National Organization for Women has enormous respect and admiration for Sen. Edward Kennedy. For decades, Sen. Kennedy has been a friend of NOW, a leader and fighter for women’s civil and reproductive rights, and his record shows that.” Further, Ms. Gandy said her chapter “respects” Sen. Kennedy’s endorsement. “We continue to encourage women everywhere to express their opinions and exercise their right to vote,” she said.

Ms. Gandy’s reputation is that of a daffy broad, but somebody had to act like a grownup in this overheated maelstrom.