The more positive response she gets from voters, the more difficult it is for colleagues in the GOP to consider her solely for vice president at best, Ferguson says. There are a lot of sharp elbows in politics. A lot of forces want her to be relegated to the vice presidential slot. She personally hasn t seen many of the giveaway adjectives or adverbs, Ferguson says. In a past study of media language used for male politicians vs. female politicians, Ferguson says, the traditional vocabulary used for men often focuses on military and sports images.
Writers have a more difficult time with women.
Oddly enough, Ferguson says, analogies for women often relate to animals. A woman senator was once described as an angry poodle barking her case. Another woman official was a wounded dove making a last stab at having her amendment passed. Don t let me see them. It could be even more scary, Dowd wrote.