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 the scene, Donald Trump. How browbeaten Democrats like AOC must be cheered to the roottops by Ms. Reid’s scathing review of his performance.

Contrast with the response on view in one of the world capitals of dumb blondes, Australia, where Sky News got it just plain wrong:

Personally, listening to Joy Reid’s message of hope for the Biden partisans, I was reminded of the seemingly anomalous cheeriness of an unlikely hit song that stole the charts in 1967, in what many considered the darkest days of the Vietnam War. Their message was inspirational: Forget about all that and have confidence that all will be well in the future. What was the band’s name? Platinum Alarm Clock? Can’t remember. Maybe Liz Cheney or Sonny Hostin would know. They always have all the answers…

One thing is still true. Blondes DO have more fun, come what may.