It may be sexist, it maybe patronizing, but this lady is so damn CUTE

[Sarah]

Every bit helps, Martin.

[John Junk 2.0]

Actually, I totally read all those articles, with glee.  I mostly agreed with the Daily Show take, which is "So, the press knew this shit and agreed not to tell anyone until the race was over?  As in, once it didn't matter and was of no use to anyone? 

[Trembling Eagle]

Actually, I totally read all those articles, with glee.  I mostly agreed with the Daily Show take, which is "So, the press knew this shit and agreed not to tell anyone until the race was over?  As in, once it didn't matter and was of no use to anyone? 

They had to, they signed non disclosure agreements for the access. It was up to the American people to see and understand the obvious.

[Regular Joe]

I'm a little late coming to this, but has anyone else read Camille Paglia's totally insane take on Palin?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html

'I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come.'

I compulsively read her column every month knowing I'll be made helplessly angry by her knee-jerk contrarianism and liberal-baiting, but I can't help myself. She's the Armond White of political blogging.

Even though it almost makes me helplessly terrified again, I think what Camille said there is mostly true. No matter what your affiliation, Palin has in large measure become (by default of her position on the ticket) a leading example for females with power, no matter her lack of qualifications. Yes, ultimately that missing experience was her fatal flaw, but as far as I can tell, that was pretty much the singular thing most people didn't trust about her, outside of partisan politics as usual. It is SO much more worrisome that the only reason she became a liability instead of a laser for the right, was something so potentially fixable as her lack of factual knowledge. Given more time and a measured, concerted effort to install the party software into her already charming and disingenuous hardware, she is precisely the type of Terminator that could con a great number of people into sopping up the prettified Regan-centric bullshit, like honey on a biscuit.

There are only two saving graces I can see right now. Either the Bush administration has so mortally wounded the GOP that it will now just lay there in the dirt gushing out its lifeblood until it dies, leaving Sarah Palin high and dry (seems unlikely, given the 2 party lockdown on our system), or in 8 years somehow enough of us will remember her as the Sarah Palin of the past week, a buffoon, but only a buffoon in the same pitiable way that anyone would be seen as, if they too were so quickly rushed onto the national stage and thrown to the lions. This is more likely, but come on. Most people forget everything. Trusting in these things alone still seems so shaky, even if Jesus H. Obama himself fulfills every promise he's ever even hinted at and finishes off his next 8 years with all the finesse everyone hopes for.

Gosh, I really thought I'd buried this on election night too. I guess not! I just wish everyone would ignore her like a proper troll should be ignored so I can ignore it too and maybe it will just go away. Honestly I blame reality television for ALL of this, even my own lengthy post. I watched every episode of Kid Nation and am currently following the second season of Charm School (it's way better than the first one), so I am by far among the guilty. It's a disease, not a choice, but I still disgust myself.

[Trembling Eagle]

I'm a little late coming to this, but has anyone else read Camille Paglia's totally insane take on Palin?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html

'I was never in doubt about what she intended at any given moment. On the contrary, I was admiring not only her always shapely and syncopated syllables but the innate structures of her discourse -- which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come.'

I compulsively read her column every month knowing I'll be made helplessly angry by her knee-jerk contrarianism and liberal-baiting, but I can't help myself. She's the Armond White of political blogging.

Even though it almost makes me helplessly terrified again, I think what Camille said there is mostly true. No matter what your affiliation, Palin has in large measure become (by default of her position on the ticket) a leading example for females with power, no matter her lack of qualifications. Yes, ultimately that missing experience was her fatal flaw, but as far as I can tell, that was pretty much the singular thing most people didn't trust about her, outside of partisan politics as usual. It is SO much more worrisome that the only reason she became a liability instead of a laser for the right, was something so potentially fixable as her lack of factual knowledge. Given more time and a measured, concerted effort to install the party software into her already charming and disingenuous hardware, she is precisely the type of Terminator that could con a great number of people into sopping up the prettified Regan-centric bullshit, like honey on a biscuit.

There are only two saving graces I can see right now. Either the Bush administration has so mortally wounded the GOP that it will now just lay there in the dirt gushing out its lifeblood until it dies, leaving Sarah Palin high and dry (seems unlikely, given the 2 party lockdown on our system), or in 8 years somehow enough of us will remember her as the Sarah Palin of the past week, a buffoon, but only a buffoon in the same pitiable way that anyone would be seen as, if they too were so quickly rushed onto the national stage and thrown to the lions. This is more likely, but come on. Most people forget everything. Trusting in these things alone still seems so shaky, even if Jesus H. Obama himself fulfills every promise he's ever even hinted at and finishes off his next 8 years with all the finesse everyone hopes for.

Gosh, I really thought I'd buried this on election night too. I guess not! I just wish everyone would ignore her like a proper troll should be ignored so I can ignore it too and maybe it will just go away. Honestly I blame reality television for ALL of this, even my own lengthy post. I watched every episode of Kid Nation and am currently following the second season of Charm School (it's way better than the first one), so I am by far among the guilty. It's a disease, not a choice, but I still disgust myself.

She is from the that type of willful ignorance that doesn't need or want to be enlightened. The republican party is essentially the White Nationalist Party of America the future for them is either distancing themselves for their shameful behavior over the past 40 years and become more inclusive or they can get retract and get meaner, nastier and embrace their white nationalism more openly.

[wwwes]

Look, say America forgets all the scandals, which is pretty safe to assume. Assume that she works really hard to learn about the things she doesn't know (somewhat less likely, but she might). She's still a terrible person on a purely personal level.

She is nothing but cruel on the campaign trail. Every election she has ever won has been done on the basis of hate-mongering, playing to evangelicals, looking pretty and crying sexism at every opportunity. That works well in Alaska because there's a substantial segment of the population that is batshit crazy. In the US, that kind of thing is out of favor and done to death. She will have to develop a whole new bag of tricks in order to succeed.

Not to mention that she'll have to keep her looks up, which will only get harder. Let's see how she does if she's no longer able to win conservative Gen Xers over with a Betty Boop wink.

[Trembling Eagle]

Look, say America forgets all the scandals, which is pretty safe to assume. Assume that she works really hard to learn about the things she doesn't know (somewhat less likely, but she might). She's still a terrible person on a purely personal level.

She is nothing but cruel on the campaign trail. Every election she has ever won has been done on the basis of hate-mongering, playing to evangelicals, looking pretty and crying sexism at every opportunity. That works well in Alaska because there's a substantial segment of the population that is batshit crazy. In the US, that kind of thing is out of favor and done to death. She will have to develop a whole new bag of tricks in order to succeed.

Not to mention that she'll have to keep her looks up, which will only get harder. Let's see how she does if she's no longer able to win conservative Gen Xers over with a Betty Boop wink.

she's got great genetics she'll look good for years to come. Plus I sense a boob job coming.

[Sarah]

Besides, boobs aren't the basis of her appeal:  she never used cleavage to get attention.

I'm going to keep hoping for a big election scandal in Alaska that can be unequivocally laid at Palin's door. 

In conclusion, 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03fcGelz8Hw&eurl=http://mudflats.wordpress.com/

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Plus I sense a boob job coming.

Eagle sense...  tingling!

[erika]

I don't want to think about his tingling.

[samir]

Besides, boobs aren't the basis of her appeal

They are the basis of her appeal to a lot of people, sadly. Jason G being but one. Philly Boy Roy being but two.

[Sarah]

I realize I misspoke.  Let me put it another way:  while boobs may be the basis of her appeal to some, she did not flaunt her possession of them.  It is perhaps the only thing for which I can respect her:  she refused to unleash the power of the (however discreetly) exposed breast to cloud men's minds.

[Trembling Eagle]

I realize I misspoke.  Let me put it another way:  while boobs may be the basis of her appeal to some, she did not flaunt her possession of them.  It is perhaps the only thing for which I can respect her:  she refused to unleash the power of the (however discreetly) exposed breast to cloud men's minds.

No I think you have it right she definitely played on her looks but not to the degree of wearing anything boob revealing or accentuating, she was way more into showing the legs off.


Maybe I'm a prude but weren't some of those skirts cut way high (for professional attire)?


Also, Katherine Harris

[samir]

Sarasota, Florida in the house!
It's where my parents live.

[jbissell]

Plus I sense a boob job coming.

Eagle sense...  tingling!

Don't you mean... trembling?