I make fun of John Boehner's (sp) tan all the time. I think I have spent the equivalent of a whole day making fun of Mitt Romney's hair during the primaries last year. I mean, I get what you are saying to a point, but sometimes people of both genders just say nasty personal things about people they hate, regardless of gender. I know I do.

When you make fun of somebody, you commonly make fun of some distinguishing characteristic.

Like when Al Franken called Rush Limbaugh a "big, fat idiot", he's not making fun of all big people, fat people, or idiots. He's making fun of Rush Limbaugh.

Pelosi's plastic surgery face and notable taste in designer clothes are distinguishing characteristics. That's all there is too this.

But please, read way more into it than exists, if thats what makes you happy.

Ever referred to Rush Limbaugh a pig? A fat bastard? I have. Politics is personal for many and it gets personal out there, Rebecca. So man up!

... In the Elks Lodge, one is not supposed to talk about religion or politics. So this topic would be off-limits. Why not give your casual, maligning aside to a group that deserves it - like the John Birch Society?

and the same can be said of the democrats attacking the republicans.

That is why Obama wants to put the issue "behind us".

Of course not, she's serving as a scapegoat to stir up the "base". They want her stay in office as long as possible. In the end though what conservative wants is irrelevant. Liberals and progressive should demand Pelosi resign for two reasons.

1) She was willing to sacrifice our Constitution and our country's soul for political expediency

2) She lied about her cravenness to protect herself and try to cast blame on others (CIA).

If we don't hold accountable one of our own, what right do we have to hold Dick Cheney and the Maybury Mafia responsible.

to joke about Rush's drug habit and obsession with anuses;

to call Gov. Palin a pig in lipstick, and

to talk about Mitt Romney's magic underwear?

How is it sexism to mock a politician's appearance in modern day America? It's puerile to be sure, but then again so is our discourse. And I don't recall Traister sounding off when Joe Biden was getting called out for his hair plugs or John Boehner for his shake and bake fake tan, etc. As it is, I'm entirely unclear what sets this instance out from those or myriad others (not that I would find any such argumentation in a Traister screed).

Calling sexism at every opportunity is the surest way to pejoritize the charge. Such as it is, the entire feminist movement would be better served by not throwing it around outside of clear cut cases of sexism. The perfect cautionary tale here was the Democratic primary, in which huge swaths of the Democratic electorate became convinced that HRC is a racist or that Obama is a sexist, neither of which is backed up by anything remotely compelling.

Rush and the rest of the dunderheads on the right are clowns. In his case amongst many of the others, they are almost assuredly misogynist clowns. But looking for women's issues in every current event involving women is mind bendingly asinine. Please, for everyone concerned- knock it off.

Other than that, I'm not crazy about her, and I think she hurts the party whenever she opens her mouth.

But that's just my perception.

A bunch 'O stupid schlubs

Ewww NO GIRLS!!!

WE'RE THE HE MAN WOMAN HATERS CLUB!!!!!

Their not used to having real criticisms so it's not a surprise their still in default "attack things that have nothing to do with policy" mode. Now that they have a real problem to address they don't really know how to fall out of that. Though I have to agree with the other posters on this one, how much do we make fun of Rush's weight or drug habit in cases where it has nothing to do with what he said?

Stop jumping on every single tiny little thing that could possibly be related to sexism and freaking out about it. Sometimes when a woman is criticized about physical appearance, its just a criticism on physical appearance, not an attack on her gender.

Its articles like this that steer me away from this column. Which is a shame, because sexism in this country is very real, but diluting the cause with this sort of stuff doesn't do you any favors.

then I'd feel bad about people making fun of her looks.

But Nancy "off-the-table" Pelosi has blood on her hands. And personally, I think that's kinda ugly.

Nancy had the authority and constitutional duty to take action against the executive for high crimes. Which she personally knew for a fact had occurred. But that was off-the-table.

How many people were tortured-to-death after Nancy became speaker of the house?

I know. It's a lot of work trying to impeach a president who ordered torture, illegal wiretapping, and other crimes. If a couple dozen prisoners are tortured to death in the meantime, that's ok. At least she got reelected.

Nancy Pelosi is tough, smart, politically savy, and more than capable of handling a bunch of bombastic, Republican blowhards. Conservative men must be compensating for something very small; they feel very intimidated by professional, intelligent, ambitious women. They like their women stupid, stay at home, often pregnant, and attractive. That's how they know so much about Botox.

Let them talk their trash; Nancy can take it. All this nasty talk diminishes them more than it hurts her. This is all smokescreen, an attempt to distract attention from the crimes of the Bush administration by focusing on the Democratic woman, first female Speaker of the House, whom they have worked so hard to vilify for years. It's a strategy that stinks of slimy Next and Turdblossom. Nancy can't keep her stories straight??? How many times did the lies about torture change over the past 8 years?