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Lots of Lipstick Out There
Michael Graham at National Review
| The Obama camp has been working the "lipstick meme" for days. |
Yesterday afternoon I spent two hours in the parking lot of a restaurant in the Boston suburbs collecting lipsticks from angry voters who want to send a message to Sen. Obama. I was expecting maybe 50 people to stop by. Instead, about 200 angry, horn-honking, fired up listeners mostly women helped me fill an entire bulk mail bin with lipsticks.
They aren't nit-picking over exactly what was on Sen. Obama's mind when he made the crack about lipstick.
They heard it, and they got the message.
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Usually when a talk radio host does a station event, the attendees are overwhelmingly male, as is our listenership. But 75% or more of the folks who came by yesterday were women. And they aren't nit-picking over exactly what was on Sen. Obama's mind when he made the crack about lipstick. They heard it, and they got the message.
One woman, who identified herself as a Hillary supporter, drove in from Rhode Island. Another a mother in her late 40s drove 42 miles each way to bring me one lipstick.
I know there are conservatives who think this controversy is a campaign fiction being cleverly exploited by the McCain campaign. But as I wrote in the Boston Herald today, I think they're wrong. The Obama campaign has been working the "lipstick" meme for days. Sen. Obama should have left it to his surrogates, but instead gave into a moment of unbecoming snarkiness towards Gov. Palin.
The crowd knew it, and the women I'm hearing from I've gotten several hundred emails from them in 24 hours heard it, too.
Posted by: lotp 2008-09-11 |
