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A Party of Nalas?

May 31st, 2006 3 Comments

Brendan Nyhan notes that Democratic women are increasingly using the metaphor of a lioness protecting her cubs in order to project strength not commonly associated with women, especially Democratic ones. Nala, anyone?

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3 Responses to “A Party of Nalas?”

  1. Dugger says:
    May 31, 2006 at 10:05 am

    What happened to “it takes a village”? Didn’t that one work? Why not have Democratic women simply state what they stand for instead of a Hollywood advertising campaign?

    Dugger

  2. SaveFarris says:
    May 31, 2006 at 11:05 am

    Both you and Nyhan miss the bigger news out of that story: Nancy Pelosi supports pre-emptive war!

    How soon until she’s Lieberman’ed?

  3. Anna in Cairo says:
    June 1, 2006 at 7:06 am

    How about a lioness doing the hunting while the lions sit around and make noise? I believe that is sort of the way it is in the pridelands, right?