The Democrats’ Hail Mary Optimist
Don’t judge a boob by her hair color. The roots go a long way back, but the tradition somehow endures that blonde women are different. Whether it’s because of Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Sally Struthers, the Wayne Sisters on the Johnny Carson show, or all of the above, most of us have grown up with the stereotype of the ditzy blonde firmly embedded in the backs of our minds. We’ve been taught not to look to them for high intelligence or clearsighted vision of the future. Now, in our new progressive era, we finally have a chance to overturn that worn out cliché and see blondes as better than ditzy to some degree. Take the MSNBC Queen of Democrat optimism, Joy Reid. She has proven herself capable of seeing what no one else can see. When others were spinning an opposite line, she recognized with eloquent passion that the Trump speech in the Bronx was an even worse bomb than every recent Disney movie: Every word drips with sneering contempt for the real dumb blond on t...