
Flying pig alert.
Via Politico:
…But evading the question, to some extent, is the point: When you get to the rarified level she and Clinton inhabit, you’ve got to invent a new lexicon for discussing gender in politics – much as Obama tried to do with race in his presidential campaigns. You need to talk about it without quite talking about it.
“I don’t think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she’s a woman, and that– because the candidate is a woman,” Pelosi said.
“When I was running for leadership, the last thing I would say to my whips [was], ‘Do not ever say to anybody it’s time for us to have a woman in the leadership,’ because that’s the least important selling point,” she said, going on to offer some unsolicited advice: “In terms of Hillary Clinton and this election, I think that the attitude that … you should vote for her because she’s a woman and you’re a woman is not a good selling point. And I think that turns some people off.”
