Conservatives Fawn Over Palin's Physical Appearance (VIDEO)

Think Progress:

Last month, the McCain campaign accused Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) of being "disrespectful" and sexist for calling Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) "attractive." Will it similarly slam National Review's Rich Lowry, who praised Palin's sex appeal to male viewers?

I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.

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Comments

[milo h minderbinder]

So when people go on about Biden's botox and hair plugs, why isn't that sexist?

Love the double standard.

[JiminNC]

Piper Palin - A classic must see photo!

http://buzzword101celebritynews.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/2czc1uabuzz.jpg

[isis]

Conservatives have very low standards for just about everything. They ruined radio, the economy, the environment, our standing in the world and are doing the same for politics. It would be great for both parties to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. We have a right to vote for more than advertising campaigns or candidate images.

[TimboM]

Todd wisdom and pithy observations, 24/7.

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[jazzifay]

They don't understand. This election is about OUR future. Not OUR fantasies

[grantlingel]

who cares if she is attractive.. definitely doesn't make her qualified.
http://grantlingel.blogspot.com

[gez]

It's not not just Republican males who are getting over excited with Palin's appearance at the debate. Anyone watching 'Fox and Friends' on the Fox news channel will have noticed their complete fixation with this woman. They just can't stop talking about her and they have even started using the same folksy whimsical phrases uses eg. 'Joe six pack'. Yuck!! They're totally besotted by her. No One else gets a look in not even McCain

[mi]

Too much space between Repubs ears.

[JiminNC]

Anything to avoid talking about the current value of your 401k.

[siney]

i seem to recall male republican pundits also getting weak in the knees over the size of W's g roin in his mission accomplished flight suit...i guess it's true, then...she IS bush with lipstick....

[wayoutleft]

"conservatives faun" whereas liberals have been contorted, frightened and spiteful from minute 1. she should be appreciated for her attitude and spirit. democrats should welcome her. i understand you can't go and vote for people who want to put your social security in the stock market and so on. but confident ppl can appreciate her. half the liberals thought that if you couldn't answer a network anchor's question you would burst into flame and disappear on the spot- much like they were expecting divine liberal furies to strike her down in the VP debate. now they are dissembling. you so know it's bagged up for barack, anyway- don't lie. she's a fresh face and has withstood unbelievable pressure. she's no threat to anyone. and she didn't make lowry's leg tingle like obama made matthews' leg tingle. i think using arousal to manipulate matthews is really cruel. lowry was just saying that he could tell she was speaking through his tv directly to him- like an evangelist might.

[siney]

appreciated for her attitude and spirit? sure, if she were a game show contestant or competing for ms. alaska. but she's running for VP of the united states, not a sorority...what you call attitude and spirit is contrived folksiness from a border.lin­e....there­'s nothing charming and refreshing about her...it's W all over again, only in a skirt...but you're right about one thing -- i am freightened. what she and her ilk are offering is dangerous.

[stateMachine]

Former Vice Presidents, revisionist readings of the constitutional role of the vice presidency, women, and the world in general are good or bad, heavenly or hellbound to the extent they support or corroborate her naked aspirations. Her plucky will to win the Miss American President beauty pageant is nothing to encourage or even allow- here stands a woman who never had an issue with the gender rolls historically thrust upon woman. She gladly struts the catwalk in bikini and heels to the banal pseudo-be-bop trumpets, fully cognizant that she can't compete with the intelligence of the Hillary Clintons and Katie Courics of the world, she relies on her sexuality, and therefore sexism, to provide her competitive advantage, winking at conservative manhood to assuage their deep fears of emasculation at the hands of women (or black males for that matter) who are clearly smarter than they are.

[siney]

love this....will you marry me?

[westportmike]

HUH?

[Dynogrl]

She's the GOP Wet Dream...a nightmare for the rest of us...

[wayoutleft]

i think flag pin fetishists have their own.... let's say "complex" apprehension of palin's debate style.

[LemonMeringue]

All this fawning is unseemly. They might as well just shout it out:

She's dumb and unqualified!

[CaptainStormfield]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Activist_slaps_Palin_with_lawsuit_over_1004.html
Raw story get the scoop. Not all conservatives like Palin...

[Einstein44]

We would be dubbed as the 'dumbest Americans,"if Palin is elected...­.Actually,­we are the laughstock in the eyes of the world.

[siney]

what was the headline in that french newspaper after bush's reelection? -- How Could 60 million Americans Be So Dumb?

[Hirnlego]

I believe it was British..