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Women always saw through Palin in ways that men didn't. That was most evident in the vice-presidential debate. Because many (straight) men found it hard to see past the boobs. Let's face it: if Palin looked like Golda Meir, there's no chance McCain would have picked her. And no one would currently give a damn

 - Andrew Sullivan

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 03:30:33 PM EST
How are breasts of a woman with a mind so vile even appetizing?
by Nomad on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:00:45 PM EST
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It's something that's worth saying because there is something true in that analysis. But it actually misses the point that an awful lot of people actually respond to the message she was delivering, however bonkers. There are female birthers, deathers, evangelicals, born agains, anti-abortion people y'know. Lots and lots of them, stupidity and madness are not exclusively male traits.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:10:14 PM EST
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I doubt that her looks gained the ticket many votes. Sullivan is throwing out the old "look at me, I'm smarter than all the other people in this country" line that everyone from unread bloggers to famous pundits like to throw out there.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:48:00 PM EST
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I mean, lipstick on a pigpit bull...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 04:50:12 PM EST
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I don't even think the psychology is very good. Sex doesn't sell unless the sell involves an increased possibility of sex - "buy this sportscar and women will come calling." Voting for someone could increase your odds of getting laid, I suppose, but the attractiveness of the politicians involved has no impact on that.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 05:06:13 PM EST
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It's not so much MILF appeal as the fuck-yeah attitude - the semi-comatose but pointedly self-righteous defiance of honesty, truth, morality, decency, and intelligent awareness.

She's a walking narrative - the idea that all you have to do is believe in yourself hard enough, and wish mightily enough, and you can tell any lie, put up any front, rant any rant, and you can still make it to the top, against small-minded naysayers who don't appreciate your own personal asteroid of awesome.

Plus, guns.

Also.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 07:58:35 PM EST
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ThatBritGuy:
the idea that all you have to do is believe in yourself hard enough, and wish mightily enough, and you can tell any lie, put up any front, rant any rant, and you can still make it to the top

lol, so true...

don't forget her moose rack.

she takes over from bush in the 'politics for dummies' dept, seems like a portion of the american public wants to see 'take-charge' women who still look like women to um er well, take charge.

strict mommy, dress her up like a dominatrix in your mind, and there's a click of yes, the stuff about eating raw moose brains in the snow while giving birth and undoing the bridge to nowhere and waving to vlad the i'm palin from her igloo and bringing integrity back to washington while modelling high fashion and elastic moral codes.

you coudn't make her up, and because the universe is generous in reflections, they don't have to invent her, she comes locked and loaded with the ultimate in specious corn-fusion, served up in gingham, hoistinga betty crock'o you know what, steaming fresh from hell's kitchen.

sarah can chop your wood, sarah can stomp your wood, there's nothing supersarah can't do...

except string two considered opinions in a row.

as if they'd fit in their cups anyway, lol.

with sarah, you don't even need satnitelive, she's the real wang-doodle, there to make you chuckle at her downhome awfulness, and squirm as she proceeds to make bush look like albert einstein!

comedy gold, born to run, go girl, goddess of retrokitsch goodness, you can taste the apple pie just looking at her.

coulter for VP!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Nov 18th, 2009 at 01:19:02 AM EST
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Andrew Sullivan has no business talking about what (straight) men see in Sarah Palin.

She is physically attractive to a certain type of person.  "Caribou Barbie" is probably the most apt nickname for her.  While she's absolutely useless if she's unattractive I think her looks are vastly overstated in terms of her appeal.  What she says, and how she says it, is what people like about it.  To the men who agree with those ideas, she's irresistable.  Fortunately those men are not even close to a majority.

by paving on Tue Nov 17th, 2009 at 06:47:44 PM EST
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