Ethics

Worst Prediction of 2008

By Ed Brayton

I'm reading Going Rouge, the anti-Palin book that mimics the name and look of her own book, Going Rogue. I'm only about 25 pages into it, but came across this quote and it made me laugh. It's from an essay about Gloria Steinem, who was, for once, far too optimistic about the Republican party. Speaking of the outcome of a loss in last year's presidential election with Sarah Palin on the ticket, she predicts:

Republicans may learn that they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.

Or...not so much.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).