I'd say we should get these guys laid, except David Vitter proves that with the GOP, that isn't enough

What are these guys, twelve?

She’s the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history.

But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National Committee wants you to think “Pussy Galore.”

At least that’s the takeaway from a video released by the committee this week – a video that puts Pelosi side-by-side with the aforementioned villainess from the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger.”

The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the use of waterboarding in 2002. While the P-word is never mentioned directly, in one section the speaker appears in a split screen alongside the Bond nemesis – and the video’s tagline is “Democrats Galore.”

The wisdom of equating the first woman speaker of the House with a character whose first name also happens to be among the most vulgar terms for a part of the female anatomy might be debated – if the RNC were willing to do so, which it was not. An RNC spokesperson refused repeated requests by POLITICO to explain the point of the video, or the intended connection between Pelosi and Galore.

But what isn’t open to debate is that the waterboarding conflict has been accompanied by a cascade of attacks on the speaker, not as a leader or a legislator, but as a woman.

I'm serious. At some point, shouldn't we start demanding psychiatric evaluations of Republicans to find out why their psychosexual development always seems stalled somewhere between the anal stage of toddler development and the misogyny of the third grader?

What these attacks on Nancy Pelosi's female-ness do, of course, is debunk all the right's rhetoric abortion -- that it's somehow about TEH BAYBEEEEZZZZZZ and NOT the fact that they are absolutely scared shitless of female sexual power. So when do we get to confront them on that in just these words?

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