Although old news, it’s news to me and worth talking about. What kind of people are these, really? We talk about sexism a lot on this blog, but as many have noted: what would it take to get you to use language like that, about your partner, in public? I honestly can’t imagine that.

My family is filled with passionate, flawed people who aren’t afraid to raise a voice (but never a hand) to each other. Harsh language is the salt of life, obviously I was raised to believe that too. But I don’t understand how something like this is ’normalized’ into the habits of two people married to each other and for whom public image matters. Recklessness? Carelessness? Lack of intelligence, tact? Hatred of women? Any answer is one that reflects poorly on McCain as a national figure, as someone we want to have a finger on the bomb.

Like I said, this is old news but it’s time to talk about it again, and again. Women will be really turned off by this, and should be reminded, McCain isn’t for us. I was reading some depressing statistics about low information people this morning, so let’s all do our part to keep the conversations and opinions properly focued. On McShame is a good place.