What do Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe think of calling women "bitches"?

Both GOP Senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, have endorsed John McCain for president. The media needs to ask them what they think of John McCain's silence, then agreement that it was an "excellent question," when a questioner at a McCain event called Hillary Clinton a "bitch."



The appropriate response when someone calls your opponent, a woman, a "bitch" in public, and you're running for president, is to immediately say "okay, that kind of language really isn't appropriate" and then you give a small lecture about how we're all one country, etc. The appropriate response isn't to make a joke back and say that it's an excellent question. I mean, would John McCain have sat back and laughed if a questioner called Rudy Giuliani an asshole? Somehow I doubt it.

The sad thing is that a week ago or so Hillary's campaign was wrong to pull the woman card and say that she was being beaten up for being a woman. This week, that's exactly what's happening. Presidential candidates don't get to sit back and tacitly agree with people who refer to other presidential candidates as "bitches." It's not just inappropriate, it's not very presidential either. It's not the first time McCain has had a "not very presidential" bimbo eruption, and sadly it looks like it won't be the last.