This is bound to really backfire on the GOP. Most of the voters under 40 have no idea who “Pussy Galore” even is. They’ll simply hear the word and assume that the Republicans are being offensive to women. Older women (and many men) will find it oddly off topic. Is it Pelosi as a woman that they find offensive?

And the GOP seems oddly fixated on Pelosi’s looks…but are torn about what they mean. Is Pelosi a “femme fatale”, or is she, as the morbidly-obese leader of their Party claims, so repulsive looking that he is advocating having her image put up in motel rooms to reduce their use for illicit sex? Not that this would apply to Limbaugh’s Viagra-supported romps to the Dominican Republic…of course.

So we have the word of Pelosi…who appears to have the backing of every document thus far released by the CIA, as well as the statements of other Senators who were briefed separately at the time that there was no mention of the CIA already using water boarding, or any other extreme interrogation method.

This is counter to Porter Goss, who says only that Pelosi should have “channeled” what the CIA “meant”. Is that not an admission that the Agency did NOT brief them explicitly on the methods? She should have “inferred”…nudge, nudge, wink, wink?

And if we are going to talk about sexually-linked “spies” shouldn’t it be Goss in the role? He hired his CIA buddy, Dusty Foggo as the top Executive Officer at the CIA. The man who would have been out arranging the contracts for all these activities. Foggo, who is linked to the procurement and use of prostitutes to entice members of Congress into taking kickbacks from contractors in exchange for critical votes on the Appropriations Committee?

Don’t tell the Republicans, but nowadays they can’t even get their gynophobic smears right.

Most people, particularly most males, who’ve heard of Pussy Galore don’t think of her as a bad girl, but as the incredibly sexy woman who James Bond helped set right. Not exactly 100% female-empowering, but on the whole far more positive than negative.

If the Republicans really wanted blue-collar males to hate Nancy Pelosi, they shouldn’t be encouraging their target audience to think of her as the Bond character portrayed by the deeply sexy, smart and competent Honor Blackman.

They just like using the “p” word, the actually have no familiarity with what it stands form.

Or what to do with one should they encounter it in the real world.

And even those of us under 40 have no idea what the Republicans are talking about comparing the two .. it just shows how stupid and out of touch they really are .. besides .. who is Goldfinger? Mitch McConnell? And doesn’t PG turn on Goldfinger in the end?

Here’s what I don’t get: there are Republican women of dignity and stature. I don’t agree with their politics, but, generally, they are as strong and serious-minded as Democratic women.

Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Elizabeth Dole. A few others.

Why do they allow this to go on? What I’d like to see is their response to this video.

Why allow GOP men to pull this shit without protest?

Who among the GOP women officeholders will condemn this ad?

Susan Collins? Olympia Snowe? Lisa Murkowski? KBH?

Or perhaps Virginia Foxx or Jean Schmidt? Liz Cheney? Jodi Rell? Christine Todd Whitman? Michele Bachmann?

Do these female GOPs endorse this kind of advertising? Do they think it moves the debate forward? Would they like to be portrayed this way themselves? Have they spoken with anyone at the RNC about this ad?

Finally, is this what Michael Steele means by “classy?”

Does Sarah Palin support this ad?

What does Condi Rice think?

Is Mrs McConnell on board?

Does Meghan McCain approve?

Does Bay Buchanan endorse this portrayal? How about Mary Matalin?

I’d sure like to see some of the women on talk shows this weekend asked about it. Katty Kay? Jennifer Loven? Michelle Bernard? Cokie Roberts? Peggy Noonan?

The worst thing that could happen to the posters at this site is the demise of the Republican party.

(Palin’s office did not respond to a call from POLITICO on the Pelosi matter, and McCain declined to comment. None of the House or Senate Republicans contacted by POLITICO was both available and willing to comment on the RNC video.)

@ART45 — that’s nice, Art. So, you support advertising that equates Democratic women with Pussy Galore, is that right?

Turning on Democratic women is always classy, for a slug-brained gooper. I doubt you’ll see any GOP women condemn this tactic. Hope so but I would be shocked if any of them publicly objected to it.

All Rs will be afraid to criticize because Rush wouldn’t like it. They are so spineless – so be it, let them walk right off that cliff.

Don’t know….some powerful TX R women have written about the “whorehouse” remark from the Perry camp.

Buncha Oddjobs who truly believe their Fighting Skills are Unstoppable. (apologies to David Rees)

Call me stupid, but as a woman almost Nancy Pelosi’s age, I think she looks great in the ad. I think she wins this one! Republicans took a drink of the stupid juice and they just can’t seem to get it out of their systems.

They should be asked to go on the record one way or another. It’s a great wedge.

If I want opinion, I want Senators Byrd and Bunning to give it to me. They’ve been around the block, you know.

Does Bay Buchanan endorse this portrayal? How about Mary Matalin?

summonabitch – that’s right, those two are allegedly ladies females.

Sometimes it slips my mind.

The idea that a 69-year old person in public life has NOT had plastic surgery is laughable. Every one of the men in the business has had work done too. And what difference does that make? Nancy Pelosi is LOADED and she should be able to spend her money the way she wants to. At least the DNC doesn’t have to buy her clothes — her handsome husband Paul shops for her.

Buncha losers trying to make Pelosi’s name poison. It hasn’t worked before and it won’t work now.

so, which link leads to the ad??????

i really resent being led to ‘politico’ my first clicki in…. and refuse to click on any more links here.

c’mon, give a quote or a clue to a source, something.

as much as we say don’t give traffic, i am pissed as hell i just gave them/those assholes some.

gimme a break. consistency is a nice thing.

it’s as bad as ads that entrap me….don’t wanna give them traffic, don[’t wanna read what they have to offer.
and without the ad, i can’ tcomment…

either embed it or make it clear….and yes i am pissed as hell that i gave ‘politico’ traffic..wouldn’t you be?

“Their business is deception” —- they gave the final line to Pelosi, and she told it like it is. Repubs are so darned dumb that it’s embarrassing.

Bay has had so much work done that when you put her next to Pat she looks like his daughter not his sis.

I look forward to Chris Matthews non-sexist treatment of this ad. He will probably ignore it, since he finds it impossible to discuss gender issues without blushing and giggling. But it would be funny if someone brought it up to him.

Okay, I’ve watched the ad 3 times, and I think Nancy Pelosi wins it going away…..she said they lied, and only a fool could imagine that the CIA wouldn’t,…….they lie; it’s their job; sometimes they do it better than at other times, but they lie. Panetta sounds like a cypher…..blah, blah, blah.

congressional rethugs have a 5% approval rating? 5%? That must be some sort of record. Heck, 5% of this country probably roots for the enemy in any given war.

and the last sentence before the update, lobbying, is spelled wrong.

it’s the little things, like giving traffic to sites that should rot in their own rhetoric, like spelling…really…

you know this shit, why am i having to tell you?

rofl, don’t make me go to politico again, please.

: )

left you a response in la figa

so, i repeat, which link leads to the ad?

I think most of the women likely to be offended by the attacks on Pelosi have already ditched the Republicans. The ones that remain are like my wingnut sister, who became completely unhinged when Hillary Clinton was first lady and stokes those fires of hatred to this day. She has a similar if slightly less intense opinion of Pelosi.

LOL.

Here ya go dmac

I guess you’re right.
*sigh of disgust*

Stay classy Gop. Geez….

You can find the ad at Balloon Juice, which is the second link (”sniggering frat boys“) in Jane’s post.

It’s quite disgusting.

But are they burning the brand with women in the process? From the latest Daily Kos poll:

From the looks of that poll, those of us who live in the South need to start controlling our borders to prevent more Republican refugees from the rest of the nation from further reducing our average I.Q. We need to be especially alert to state politicians trying to erect huge dunce statues, telling the rest of the nation to send us their morons, their hate mongers, the wretched refuse of their teeming stock car races and gun shows,etc..

Politico did get a comment from a Utah Congressman I had never heard of before:

After viewing an RNC video that juxtaposed the speaker with the James Bond villainess, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told POLITICO Saturday:

“I thought it was reprehensible, irresponsible and unpersuasive. If we’re going to regain the credibility of the American people, we’re going to have to stop with silly antics like that. It may get a snide chuckle inside the Beltway, but it offends most people. We have to get away from the politics of personal destruction,” he said of the video.

The RNC declined repeatedly to explain the Pelosi/Galore connection, saying only that the video was about the speaker’s “lack of leadership.” Chaffetz is the only Republican thus far who has been willing to comment on the video.

“Policy and public comments are fair game, and there are creative ways to amplify it, but I despise it when Democrats and organizations like MoveOn.org use these types of tactics,” Chaffetz said. “I would like our party to be more consistent in calling out inappropriate behavior like this. We’ve got to show some leadership and get serious about the issues at hand. It just bothers me that we have someone in the bowels of the organization on payroll working on stuff like this.”

Of course, the reporter uses this opportunity to discuss the Betrayus ad, as if MoveOn and the RNC are somehow equivalent.

This ad is so many different kinds of stupid.

Have they ever even watched a Bond movie or read the books? The CIA and Bond’s spy agency MI6 — as depicted in the Bond universe — lie all the time. In fact, it’s taken for granted that the CIA and MI6 lie and engage in coverups. For instance in “Live and Let Die” the CIA is running operations on U.S. soil even though domestic spying is illegal!

It’s also stupid because it looks like Pelosi is getting shot by a sniper in that sloppy parody of the 007 “gun barrel sequence.” Is the RNC suggesting the CIA is willing to carry out a political assassination of a democratically elected U.S. official?

jane,

politico?????as a source??????????? i am pissed. really am.
i give up. thanks anyway….i can’t be the only one who thinks that getting past a politico ad/mention/ht hit on the first link hit, to get to the video mentioned in the post is way beyond what i want to do right now. or ever.

having to dig for the link is bad enough, but having my first try com eup ‘politico’ is beyond the pale..
politico sucks, having them as a first link in trying to find the video relating to your post is sucky at best.what other wonders am i going to encounter? politico sucks. sucks.and i don’t cuss.. wrote them lotsa letters, did you? well…don’t wanna go there. wanna see see the ad.

where is it?

politico, lots of start-up money, lots of spam….i absolutely can’t believe you are sourcing them, jane. all of a sudden they are ‘ok’??? you may have forgotten, i haven’t. you may leave your back bare, but i have it. don’t get sunburned.

all of a sudden we have become mundane when we settle for the middle.
yeah, this comment, another reason to hate me, ‘t’……..

thanks, so, which link was it?

Blue Texan is upstairs at the Mothership!
Obama Calls for Larger Armed Forces at Annapolis

love yua, babay.

wow

thanks, i was pissed at having to ‘dig’…after politico, i wan t going to.

i hate those mother fuckers. i really do.

direct link to the youtube

warning though, it is the rnc youtube channel.

thanks mah deahah….
and left you a note in the thread hwere you blushed….

((selise))

think i’m gonna go de-politico myself…

i really do.

it’s the only explanation , really.

You’re forgetting what the vagina-equipped GOPers are actually like. I’m not just talking Caribou Barbie and the other visible Heathers, like Michelle Bachman.

I’m talking Howie Kurtz’s wife, Sheri Annis.

Far more important. And I wouldn’t be at all surprised if “Pussy Galore” was her idea

What’s so weird is that it’s a stupid ad. If they wanted to strike fear in the hearts and genitals of white male blue-collar voters, comparing Nancy Pelosi to a sexy James Bond character, and a good girl who Bond redeems, is NOT the way to do it. If they were aiming to hit the various misogyny and homophobia buttons, Rosa Klebb would have been the smarter choice by far — see, Rosa Klebb’s a lesbian, and Pelosi lives in San Francisco, which has lots of lesbians!!!!! I mean, really: This sort of demonization used to be something the RNC could do in its sleep. Now they can’t even do garbage smears right.

Yes, but that was directed at a powerful Republican woman, a Texan. Not a San Francisco Democratic woman.

The RNC/GOP’ers got its ass kicked by a 69 year old grandmother. Bwahhahahhhahaaaa!

Yeah, I know. The GOP stereotype of a bunch of sniggering frat boys pointing their fingers and screaming “boobies” is rarely unfair.

Au contraire. It’s totally fair.

Teh stupid is burning their brains out. Stand away from the ropes, folks, keep your hands and feet behind the line. Just $.025 more and you can see the fire swallower and the tiger woman also.

Ah but Pussy Galore was a lesbian too — until James Bod took her in his arms.

Clearly this is a messgae to Pelosi that her Evil Sapphic Powers will melt before the Overwhelming Manliness that is Bobby Jindal

What is the reason for GOPers doing this? They have shut out minorities, women, gays … really, every minority. They are literally left with old, white men. And old, white men can’t win elections. They know this.

WHY are they doing it?

Reading these comments I can’t help but think I watched a different version of Goldfinger from everyone else. In the movie I watched, James Bond gets several strangers killed(after f-ing them), can’t escape from a fat man’s country club, and finally has all of his problems magically solved for him by the lesbian he forced himself on(Goldfinger bond is a good stand in for the RNC). Also in that movie, Pussy Galore was thoroughly mercenary and amoral up until her unbelievable transformation(minus the ending, that’s how the Republicans have always thought of Pelosi).

Did I hear Pelosi say that deception is their (the CIA) business, that’s what they do? Finally, someone said the obvious. Never under-estimate how juvenile Republican “conservatives” can be. I especially resent them because I’m old, white, male, and sometimes bitter. They give old white bitter men a bad name. Besides, they think that a reference to a very dated, silly film that no one under 60 has heard of, with a sexist twist, is really clever and will win them points. Onward in your downward spiral, RNC.

James Bond “set her right”?? I hope you don’t mean that.

PG was a criminal lesbian whom 007, um “set right” by f***ing her straight (and reformed, apparently).

Besides those who don’t know the material will see the play on the name…Pussy=Pelosi. Pelosi Galore.

didn’t read the rest of the thread yet..

i want to apologize for my outburst..

here’s what was happening–

i was starving/hungry…had just taken a bite of a bacon/egg sandwich fresh out of the skillet and then ‘clicked’ and burned my mouth the worst i ever have..instantaneous, no time to spit it out…huge, deep blister 1/2″ behind my teeth..at least it’s not right on my gum line.

but it’s right where my tongue hits my palate.

i should have explained what was happening.
i ate a few bites of my sandwich and went to bed.

sorry for acting like an impatient ten year old.

am now awake cuz my mouth ‘feels funny’..
not fun.
thought i should explain and apologize.

In response to Rovian/Rushlips/Halley(Galore)Barbour jab

We may be getting bogged down by a 45 yr old voyerist movie here, looks like those demographics in Mays Vanity Fair are right though. And that is the average Bum Rushlips listener is 67 yrs old ect Its all the RNC has to work with.

I don’t care for the picture at all of Nancy being looked down the rifling of a gun barrel, not at all. The party’s never really had a platform.

The Democratic party as a whole used sexist language against Hillary Clinton as did the media. Remember that? And both parties used sexist vile language against Sarah Palin. It was time to exit the Democratic Party. Few spoke up and now self-righteous folks are asking if it is time to exit the Repug Party. What a bunch of hypocrites!!

“I’m not a statistics expert by any means but in the last election, women cast 53% of the Presidential vote. Obama got 56% of the female vote, while McCain drew 49%.”

I have to agree. Those two percentages add up to 105%.