In a "Dear John" letter to presidential candidate, John McCain, Erica Jong takes umbrage at the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Jong:
"Dear John McCain,
We're not that stupid. Sure it would be nice if the women of America believed that everyone with breasts and a vagina believed in equality. But it ain't so. To take the struggle for equal rights that has gone on for two centuries and embody it in the person of Sarah Palin is not just misleading but abusive. Charging rape victims for rape kits is a travesty of equal rights. Insisting that government impose your own views of abortion on others is anti-equality. Cutting funding for black teenage mothers is anti-feminist and racist. Lying to the electorate about your record is insolent. Do you think we're too stupid or indolent to check? We have checked. You are lying and so is she."
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