Ugh, you'd swear the american public had never seen a girl before judging by how it's going on and on and on about this woman.
Ah, come on. People are just having fun with it! Women swooned over John Edwards and Bill Clinton too even though they aren't the hottest pieces around.
Some women were into Bill Clinton and some women were into Tony Soprano ... it's an attraction to power and status. In a perverse way, I think there's a similar thing happening with Palin. Whoever made this action figure, I can imagine that person lusting after the mean, bitchy head cheerleader in high school. Palin's got that Mean Girl thing going on ... there's something very magnetic about that, even if you have no respect whatsoever for the object of lust. Beyond the sexual aspect, I think there's also a desire to reap the completely undeserved rewards and status that person is enjoying.
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