Sarah Palin is a character out of Lewis Carroll. No one can translate that smile. She's the Cheshire Cat.
She says nothing and she grins triumphantly. Her smile lingers when the words have gone.
Nothing she says makes sense but the eyelashes never stop batting. Catch phrases and buzz words bounce in the air above her head. She adores the word "also." Also, she adores herself. She is so doggone cute she turns herself on.
She is the woman politician advertisers have been waiting for -- all style and no substance. Full of confidence and full of beans, the walk of feminism without the talk. Nobody can object because there's nothing to object to. Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro had ideas you could disagree with. But Sarah Palin is perky and inscrutable at once, you betcha. She talks. We listen but we have no idea what's been said.
She is the female candidate of GOP dreams. She talks, she smiles, she flirts, she never opposes. She makes mistakes but nobody seems to care. We watch her lips go up, go down, go sideways. We watch her eyes glisten behind rimless glasses. The beauty pageant promoters removed her soul so it wouldn't get in the way. How can we dismiss her or debate her? She's a bubble. She's fizz.
She is the perfection of beauty pageant womanhood. All image, no ideas. Camera-ready for hair and lipstick commercials. Her patriotism is of the Fourth of July variety. Let's eat a heck of a lot of hot dogs, pun intended.
She's pure as a sex-phone operator. You can fantasize but not touch. The bill comes later.
She reminds me of Paris Hilton -- who once tried to trademark the expression "That's hot." Will Palin trademark "You betcha"? Or "doggone"? Or "team of mavericks"? I wouldn't put it past her. Whatever happens with the "election" the endorsements will come flooding in. Maybelline will want her. And Kellogg's. And Wal-Mart. Some publisher must already have an offer on the table.
Sarah Palin has already won the Olympics of reality TV. She'll do just fine. As for the rest of us -- I'm not so sure.
Read more reactions to the Biden-Palin Vice Presidential debate from HuffPost bloggers
"What’s most striking about being Sarah Palin? Her degree of narcissism is quite extraordinary. By comparison, she makes Paris Hilton seem almost caring. "
http://www.rose-rosetree.com/blog/2008/10/03/aura-reading-empath-merge-biden-debates-palin/
Rose posted aura readings of the VP candidates during their debate.
Those indiscriminate "also's" of hers are getting my last nerve.
She may have inadvertently helped women: this is what we do not want to ever see again! This is what needs to be fixed!
The cutesyness, winks, and by golly and hecks, are just to drive the nonsense home.
I keep wondering exactly who are the women who could watch that phoney cutesy b.s. and not see right through it.
I know a helluva lotta women and they all have the same reaction to her: absolute b.s.
Underneath this is a woman clawing her and scratching her way up, not based on knowledge, but on performance tricks.
The idea that she would expand the duties of the VP makes my wife and I shudder.
The lipstick smiles, flirty wimks and cute folksy talk may fool some people for a short time, but her complete lack of substance will not fool the intelligent women and men who will elect Obama/Bidden on Nov. 4th.