PAGLIA: HILLARY HOLDS 'DISDAIN FOR MASCULINITY'...
trumpets today's DRUDGE REPORT.

Now let's just back up the trailer truck a bit (no mean feat) and take a closer look at that one, shall we?

Just how much credibility on the subject of masculinity would you give this lesbian and self-professed "fag hag" who starts out her monthly article lecturing readers on what happened at the Rodham dinner table when Hill' was a child, and then ends her article with a paean to drag queens? Look, we know she digs Michelle Obama -- finds her personally attractive ("Meanwhile, my pessimism about the Democrats' chances in next year's presidential election vanished for an ecstatic moment when I laid eyes on a photo posted last week on the Drudge Report of the Obamas standing with Oprah Winfrey. ...what a vision of a future White House! It flashed through my mind that Michelle Obama would be the most graceful, stylish first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy. And she's fierce!)" It's nice that Paglia's vowing to support the Democratic candidate come what may, but she really should stick to the pretty poetry books, dontchathink?

Further, what credibility does the professor have to represent working-class women, those supposedly sexually brutalized by Hillary's big, bad ole husband? Most of us think of Monica ... she wasn't working class. And it was consensual, which further reduces the victim label some wanted to lay on her for political reasons.

Now you might say, imbalance of power = President v. Intern. But just as Gully Sully (gullible Sullivan) has no credibility on moral issues due to his barebacking past, wasn't there something years ago about Paglia sleeping -- consensually -- with a female student, whose father didn't take kindly to it and got her fired from the girls' school where she was teaching?*

I admit -- I don't really follow the gay gossip. So I'm unclear on the details. And I really wouldn't waste time enlightening myself, just as I'm not exactly clear whether Sullivan was advertising for quickie condomless sex partners before or after he was aware of his HIV infection.

(Don't really care; don't choose to spend my free time entertaining such detail. But if you're a eclectic reader, particularly one who browses around, you tend to pick up on the scuttlebutt, hence my cursory knowledge of stories in both their pasts.)

So who exactly died and made Paglia a political scientist, much less a expert on unequal sexually harrassing relationships or working women? My view is -- unless there was some quid pro quo proof, if women want to be accepted as equals, we have to take responsibility for our actions and not play the victim card, as Paglia clearly wants to do on behalf of these "working women".

No thanks. Stick to your drag queens, your poetry books, and your relationship with your partner and child. Just as the rest of us have no place evaluating whether or not one should stick it out should infidelity occur in a private relationship, Paglia has no cause to judge whether or not Clinton was right to remain true to her wedding vows --"for better or worse ... til death do us part."

I wonder if -- like her unconsummated crush on Madonna, back when shock was a better selling technique -- Camille was harbored a Hillary crush, just as she now admits being hot for Michelle Obama. Maybe she wished when the Monica sex scandal surfaced -- and was played up by Republicans at the expense of the country -- that Hillary would "liberate herself" as a divorcee and leave her marriage. And Paglia then soured when Hillary worked through it, remained loyal to her marriage, and proved more resiliant in the end.

Dunno, but I do know that Camille Paglia -- who apparently was afraid to have dinner with fellow professor Ann "how I judge what is said depends on who it is that's saying it (imagine that in the public classroom)" Althouse -- is not one to lecture the country on masculinity or working-class women. Nor is Sullivan really, with his obvious man-crush on Barack Obama, no real beacon of working-class masculinity himself.

Not that it necessarily matters in a president, but if these two "critics" are bound and determined to view politics throught the sexxpassion lens based on the sexual play of their own 1980s pasts, it's fair game to hoot and jeer, right?

Thankfully, the rest of the country has moved on from those times, we're more immune to shock techniques for their own sake, and understand it's not about the sex stupid, it's about the economy, the Middle East, the Islamic rogues who view us as an immoral nation, etc. etc.

And hey, didn't those crazy liberal kids Paglia and Sullivan themselves eventually "settle down"? Far be it from me to offer advice, but maybe take your partners out on hot dates, oogle the 20-something kids, go home and make passionate love ... and keep your noses out of the Clinton's marriage and dinner tables, eh? For the sake of the country.

Because Mike Huckabee is one hell of a speaker -- common sense, plain talk -- even if doesn't dress like Rudy G. Heh.

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* Just so you don't think I'm libeling, online I found a relevant reference to Paglia's own alleged "imbalance of power" relationship:

While at Bennington, Paglia had two girlfriends. The second one, a theatrical young woman named Patty, was a former student. The couple went to a school dance one evening when a rich student from Chicago came out of nowhere and physically attacked them. Paglia spoke about this to Heather Findlay in a cover story for Girlfriends magazine. She said, "I went to the police and filed a report. Then her parents went ballistic." ... The relationship with Patty ended the following year.

Just like Bill Clinton did, it looks like Paglia too was forced to pay the price for her private indiscretions. So why the continued hostility on behalf of Clinton's alleged "victims"?