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

[MaybeMilo]

All that was missing was from the debate was Palin eating a banana...

...slowly.

[ajax2]

Are the Beverly Hillbillies and the Flintstones the only shows that Sarah has ever watched? Some blonds may feel relieved that Sarah Palin is on a national stage.

[zoozey]

As a blond, I thank God she is a brunette.

[Beowolf741]

She is a disgrace to brunettes

[nibblybits]

The Rich Lowry wiki page is pretty hilarious right now:

"Rich Lowry became so aroused by the Sarah Palin debate performance, he did not realize someone was taking a picture of him, while he was in a state of arousal. Keith Olbermann used the picture on his "Worst Persons in the World" segment of his MSNBC nightly show."

How long will it last? (The edits, not Lowry's woodie.)

[zoozey]

Where is he and what is the pic of? Is it for real?

[nibblybits]

There is no pic. It was a joke. Don't believe everything you read on wikipedia.

[dct1999]

That's f#kking funny! LMAO.

[robeson]

I believe Rich Lowry is gay. Perhaps Sarah and the Witch Doctor converted him.

[robeson]

Pow, darn, golly, gee whiz, gosh, you betcha.

It's twilight in America.

[LAThinker]

So, who needs brains, when there is a Barbie effect? First they though that women will vote for Palin becouse of her gender, now it is time to thnk that american men are as dumb as to vote for her becouse of her wink?

I am no voting for Barbie!

http://www.ucubd.com/Index.aspx?id=776&cid=3151

[slc1950]

Part 2:
7. lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others (side note for this one: simply cannot do this, has no remorse, does not understand remorse but is good at "acting" remorseful - remember her total lack of acknowledgement when Joe Biden talked about the tragedy of the car accident that cost the life of his wife and daughter, serious injuries to his sons).
8. is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

If one has 5 or more of the above qualities, then they can be diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

She is vacuous, robotic, plays the role of a real human being well but is actually a complete and utter fraud. There is no beauty, inner or outer, in this "person". Please go back to the frozen north.

[zoozey]

she's an absolute case study, you betchya.

But what is also worrisome is that it also describes about every one of the nitwits that rule right wing radio.

[slc1950]

Part one:


Does any of the following look like Go.v P. alin?

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
4. requires excessive admiration
5. has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
6. is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends

[patriotic008]

I am an ardent Woman 4 Ob a m a/B i d e n, but I do think she is very pretty. She is also snarky, emptyheaded, and condescending. I was completely offended when she winked at me during the Vice Presidential debate. What a fine day for women when men are judging our qualification for the second highest job in the land by our looks. I have said it before S a r a h P a lin is one step forward but 8 steps back for women in this country.

[nibblybits]

Let's see how that works for her when 2012 rolls around and she's pushing 50. Doubt she'll be giving Lowry the sausages she's giving him now.

[MoeJava]

Wonder how many kids she will have given birth to by year 2012.

[zoozey]

Women are also being judged daily for that quality in lots of other, less critical jobs, too.

If you recall the Clinton years, there were constant diatribes even about Hillary's looks from men (which I could never understand--I think she is pretty). When I would hear them guffaw over, "I don't blame Bill Clinton for cheating....ha ha...." I would ask one thing: " Barbara Bush was really a babe, wasn't she?" If that didn't shut them up, I would further ask them if I could see a picture of their own wives. That usually did it for them.

Just remember that this VP choice came from a man who used a little girl (chelsea) as the butt of a joke about ugliness....

"Looks" (the outside of ones body) are the only thing that shallow people understand. It is the perfect representative of hypocracy.

[Tulka2]

Did they really think Palin would "appeal to women"? When she blinks or winks, her bangs move. Her bangs are in her eyes. Argggg! Turns out the group she appeals to are old, white guys. They love it that she's "young", but she dresses in the fashion of the girls of their own youth. In other words... she's a Barbie.

All the views she espouses will be bad for her children. Period. Enuf said.

[VivreBoutique]

I dont see what is hot about her - She lacks poise, walks like a truck driver and all I see are the panty lines from her support underwear, her hair is messy and eyes that are much much much too glittery. She looks like she's been on far too much coffee and has to speak really fast so she wont forget everything she crammed. The only thing really extraordinary about her is how ordinary she is. Seriously, what is attractive about a woman who can't say Nuclear? New-ku-lar? Please.
Is there a past tense for cringe as in I "crunged" so much everytime she winked, she "betcha'd" and she "clobbered". Who says clobbered???? Ugh!
She looks like all your average looking hockey moms who get this weird tan in September and think theyr'e really hot. Yuck!

[PLDChicago]

She got a reputation for being "hot" after they put her head on the Levi's sister's body. Most of the imbecilic men in America thought it was her. And for those morons, it's just easier to keep the fantasy going.

[Snarkysmachine]

She's not attractive at all. And c'mon 44 is NOT young, especially when the person in question looks 54! I guess old, white guys have worst taste than I was originally led to believe. Heck, I don't even think Tina Fey's hot. I mean she's talented, but she's not cute either.

[blisterina]

VivreBoutique, thank you! You have expressed exactly what I've been thinking -- from the cloddish walk to the backwater articulations. To quote the late, lamented Arrested Development: "HER??"

And I hope "crunged" makes it into the common vernacular!

[littlepuffycloud]

...A pretty face can't hide an ugly heart

[starfire426]

...or an empty head!!

[hmmmmmer]

Or that voice, geeeeesh!

[KeithMayass]

no white house for the winking white hose

[jmoore79]

I just don't get it - I don't see what's so "hot" about her...

[Sparty1]

It's because she does look 100x better than the other Repub women that they trot out there. She doesn't look like George Washington in a dress.

[dct1999]

Why are you bringing Barbara Bush into this?

[Snarkysmachine]

LoL. So true, though I think Condi's kind of foxy. Love a gal with a PhD.

[huffposeur]

the comments from the putative women on this string are precious. truly precious. why don't you post a picture of yourself with these comments and allow us to see who's superficial and who's just jealous?.

the 2008 election is going down in history as the end of affirmative action and the end of feminism.

but the good news for the people on this board is that it will likely mark the beginning of the united socialist states of america.

anybody catch the remarks by the botoxed, hair-plugged, capped tooth senator the other night when he said the government should have the power to lower interest rates AND principle on the mortgages of people facing foreclosure?

how's that sit with the 98% of us who weren't stupid enough to get in over our heads, or stupid enough not to read the documents we were signing, but are smart enough to pay our bills every month?

or is there anyone here who even fits in that category?

[dct1999]

Is Palin your mom? Are you one of the long lost children that was fathered by Todd's business partner? Tank is that you?

[Christabel4]

It is brilliant insight into the female mind and winning rhetorical style such as yours that is the reason McCain's numbers are plummeting. Socialist states of America? What, are you in the peewee John Birch reserves. I didn't know they had computers at Hayden Lake.

[commissaris]

Brad Hanson, welcome.

[zoozey]

Okey dokey, I'll remind you of your statement when your party runs yet ANOTHER diatribe on how OBAMA supporters are so into "celebrity." I will remind you of this when I have to sit thru your nauseating ads that compare Obama to Paris Hilton. And I will remind you of your so-called "high mindedness" when you make fun of Obama for the reception he got in Europe and around the world and you trot out the old tired lines about "celbrity" status. At least our celebrity has a freakin brain in his handsome head! At least we like him for his wisdom, intellect, calmness, enlightenment. Yes, our candidate has charisma, but HE is the whole package.

Now when you get a candidate that is the WHOLE package deal like we've got, then you can come on here and lambast us for thinking you all are nimble-brained because you have chosen a candidate based SOLELY on her looks.

btw, that 98% of "stupid people" who got in over their heads????? In my city, they are/were living in 98% predominately REPUBLICAN, WHITE neighborhoods! The largest amount of foreclosures are in Republican, good old boy states and neighborhoods.

Now, just get over yourself and your little pull-string chatty cathy doll.

[Snarkysmachine]

Oh I know I'm a 7-on-a-good-day-with-flattering-lighting, but I'm not running for VP. I'm also not trying to trade on my attractive, but average looks. I went to ONE college for undergrad and ONE college for graduate school and ONE college for my PhD. People don't have to think I'm "HOT" because I've got the goods.

[wazzucoug]

Nothing attractive about Palin. She's both phony and shallow!