McCain at Sturgis, Revisited

So… about McCain going to Sturgis and telling the assembled multitudes that he suggested Cindy (his wife…see yesterday’s post, just below) should enter the “Miss Buffalo Chip” contest… to the roaring (heh) approval of all those Harley Dudes. Bad move, John. In so doing you’ve lost the rabid feminist vote, as if (a) you ever had it, to begin with and (b) you even give a shit. As for me, I rarely frequent the “feminist” blogs; I get enough male-bashing watching Lowe’s ads and such. (I have one particular commercial in mind: the one where the Doofus Dad sez…after getting a new roof and fence at his Dear Wife’s urging… “Well, now the house is done!” At which point All-Knowing Mom and Insufferable Little Eight-Year-Old Daughter both cross their arms over their respective chests and give Ol’ Doofus The Look, and Dad sez “Except for the back-yard!” whereupon we cut to a thousand-dollar-plus playset being installed by the Friendly Lowe’s Installers. That ad. Now ask me if I’ll EVER set foot in a Lowe’s. Go on… ask. I dare ya.) (Digression!…a la Tevye.)

But… back to the “we don’t need no steenkin’ penis” crowd… Here’s Megan Carpentier at Jezebel, for starters:

He didn't do it just because she's pretty or has an enviable body for a 54-year-old woman or because he's proud of his wife's brand of socialite beauty. He did it to pander to the crowd's idea of appropriate masculinity, and that apparently includes over-sexualizing your wife and the mother of your children for the amusement of a few people in a crowd. McCain offered up the thought of his wife objectifying herself for the sexual gratification of others (at his suggestion) in order to get a couple of chuckles, inspire some male fantasy and make a few "friends." Fun!

Oooh. Ignominy! “Take my wife… for your sexual gratification!” Yeahrightsure. That was exactly what was on McCain’s mind, I’m sure. And then there’s this:

All I’m saying is that if Barack Obama had gone to an event with 20,000 people wasting gas to talk about energy and said that his wife should have simulated sucking a banana dick between another woman’s legs, this race would be fucking over.

I cannot imagine BHO at Sturgis or anyplace like it, ever. I mean, Hell, the man can hardly bowl, let alone ride. But…Yep. We’ll outlaw “wasting gas” for recreational purposes and ALL related activities (including Fake Orgasm contests) once BHO is crowned. Just you wait. Finally:

That John McCain really is a “man of the people,” which is why he went out to the Sturgis biker rally in South Dakota yesterday to praise the slobs for their slavish dependence on Muslim Arab petroleum. “This is my first time here,” McCain told the crowd of fat, tattooed motorcycle fetishists from the suburbs, “but I recognize that sound. It’s the sound of freedom.” The sound, actually, was just these people revving their foreign-oil powered bikes for no reason at all beyond a childlike delight in destroying everybody else’s peace and quiet. Oh, and then McCain offered Cindy to the motorcyclists, in a nod to the old Hells Angels’ tradition of letting everybody bang your old lady.

There’s a “beauty contest” of sorts held each summer at the Sturgis rally. And it’s just the kind of honor you’d want to see your wife achieve, if you’re the kind of repulsive old misogynist who calls your wife “trollop” and “c**t.”

Ah, I get it now. It’s bikers that are the problem, what with our child-like delight in destroying everyone else’s peace and quiet while sucking up vast quantities of fossil fuels (at 50 mpg and over). When we’re not banging each other’s Ol’ Ladies, of course.

Oh, well. This lil tempest in a teapot is done now. Can we move on to the next outrage, please?

(Image credit: Black Hills Travel Blog)