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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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