Republican Chairman [sic] reduces Hillary Clinton's ideas to "anger"

I think that there is a real possibility that Republican National Committee Chairman [sic] Ken Mehlman [left] is the best thing to happen to Sen. Clinton's re-election campaign in a long time.
Here's what he has been quoted as saying on last Sunday's This Week on ABC: "Whether it's the comments about the [Congress being run like a Republican] plantation or [the Bush administration being] the worst administration in history, Hillary Clinton seems to have alot of anger. [And] I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates."



Although, I think anyone viewing the consistently self-serving and utterly incompetent actions of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress would be hard pressed not to be furious, that's not what caught my attention.
It's the amazingly sexist reduction of the Senator's political arguments to "anger." Is there a woman out there who at one-time-or-another hasn't been told by a man in her life - husband, lover, boss, etc. - that her ideas were the product of "anger" or "the time of the month," not rational thought. Dismissing someone's criticism as "angry," is a neat male method for not having to deal with it.
Rarely are male politicians described as angry. In fact, the only one I can think of recently is current Democratic National Chair, Howard Dean. I seriously believe that labelling Dean as "angry" during the primaries leading up to the 2004 presidential elections was an attempt to "feminize" him and make it seem as if he would not be capable of protecting the U.S. from terror. I think Mehlman's reduction of Sen. Clinton's ideas (agree with them or not, and I certainly have issues with the Senator) they certainly cannot be reduced to "anger" and dismissed.
So I think Mehlman owes all women an apology, not just the Senator.