The right wing rage of the "scary lady" is not gender based, it is right wing raged based. I have seen equal red faced right wing rage about Teddy Kennedy (liberal!), illegal immigrants (illegal!), Sean Penn (bad actor!), faceless bureaucrats (socialists!), Michael Moore (fat!), and lazy union workers (lazy!).

Same rage; different target. It's the rage du jour.

The right wing rage is bigoted when bigotry serves, misogynist when misogyny serves, racist when racism serves, fundamentalist when...

Accusing a raging right wing WOMAN as having gender rage, is well, interesting. Isn't it?

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PS. Have fun with any topic that is called "what women want" and then spends its time trying to explain why women should be treated on a gender-blind basis.

You contradict your own argument when you complain than men have monoplized gender based voting. You are not asking to be treated equally, you are asking for your turn.

Which one do you want?

Sarvis: Love your post's last paragraph. Right on target.

However, rage from the left is just as severe and misguided. Rage about rich people - Rage about oil companies - etc. Your inclusion of immigration is interesting. I haven't seen one prominent African-American leader take a highly public, pro-immigration stance (and I'm Black by the way). I have seen George Bush push for reform. I have seen about 80% of New Yorkers unwilling to give licenses to illegals (many Democrat voters). I have seen Hillary finally go on record and say she will deny such. (Hardly - a "nice" stance to take.)

But I can state without reservation that in terms of this cycle of national rage, the right wing defintiely started it.

As for immigrants, I have not noticed any prominant pro-immgration groups either. Then again, I don't remember Germans favoring the Irish in the 1800s, or Italians favoring the Chinese. Funny that.

Immigration is certainly an important issue, nevertheless, the 80% statistic that I see is that 80% of the rhetoric on the issue is generally ignorant ranting and myopic silliness.

Drivers licenses is a lovely example; lots of sound and fury with zero impact on the issue itself.