You Betcha She's Doggone Cute
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.
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Sarah Palin had nowhere to go but up. She was the one that was sexist and rude last night. She has a Barbie doll personality, but underneath all the folksy, cutesy stuff is someone dangerously ignorant, but very ambitious. Was I the only one that caught the reference she made about a constitutional change to give more power to the vice president, and she admired? Dick Chaney?? She is dangerous folks, because she believes she has been sent to this position by God. I have been around people like that.. She believes she is right and has the power to do what she see fit. She didn't even have a clue what Joe Biden was talking about when he was talking about the middle east. We are living in a dangerous world right now, on all sorts of levels, we do not need "Joe six pack" running the country. What an insult to the American people..Le
Narcissistic--just like John.
She's already told us how she will govern. Remember her statement that she will only answers what she wants to answer? Palin is narcisstic. She thinks the world revolves around her and that she is truly special.
My Grandkids and their school friends are calling her "Capital Barbie" . ANd they live in a strong Republican area!
Too bad as 7-9th graders they can't vote, but I hope they are picking it up at home!
Thursday morning Pat Robertson, head of CBN and host of the 700 club prayed that God would support Sarah Palin in the V.P. debate. I've seldom agreed with Pat, but I would have sworn he was smarter than support someone so lacking in basic intellect as Palin. It makes me wonder how low Christians are willing to set the bar just to get a professed Christian, and certified witch hunter, elected.
"The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums." George Santayana, 6 Nov. 1934.
Santayana would be even more appalled were he here today
McCain is thrilled with her performance!
What does that tell us?
(Other than he has a crush.)
H E L P
"Sarah Palin has already won the Olympics of reality TV. She'll do just fine"
And this six college attending, moose hunting, rape kit charging, Governor of a state the size of Memphis, anti-choice, winking, abstinence preaching, witchdoctor soliciting
This is just shameful!!
Exactly! "betcha, gotcha, winkin'-bl
And what's with"Todd and I" would love to go to Michigan.
She needs a pitbull to block her from 'annoying" reporters
Talking Heads on MSNBC were discussing the fact that professional women have remarked negatively on Palin's cuteness and winking.
As a professional educated woman who supports the Obama / Biden ticket, I approve this message.
Everyone keeps calling her "folksy."
I'm from Iowa. That's pretty much the capitol of "Folksy". That being said, when I heard Sarah Palin and all of her little "folksy" sayings, I actually said out loud, "Who talks like that?"
I'm not sure who she was trying to appeal to with this strange vernacular, but it certainly didn't resonate with this "folksy" Midwesterner.
Pholksy is more accurate.
Or faux-y
And I'm from rural central Pennsylvania, the capital of "Joe Six-pack," and there is no one of that description here whom I would want to be the President of the U.S.
I agree, Atomic, don't we want our highest elected officials to be BETTER than the rest of us? or better than our neighbors? Aren't they supposed to be the best of the best?
That would be folksy out of central casting, as portrayed in an MGM movie from the 1930s. It was fake then; it is fake now. (I grew up in the Midwest, and I know no one who talks like that, not even the folks I knew in small-town Nebraska 25 years ago.)
Finally!! Amen. I'm from Minnesota and we don't talk like that. She keeps claiming a connection to the Heartland. Lady!! Alaska is nowhere near the heartland. You might have flown over the heartland, Midwest, but that doesn't make youone.
I think Palin demonstrated little more than a facile tongue, that could operate without connection
to the higher centers of brain function.
We wait 24 years to see another woman on the ticket and we get.....Pa
I'm sickened by McCain, who insulted us all by putting her on the ticket. With her gollys, and hecks, and shucks, McCain THOUGHT men would vote for McPalin because they would just see how gosh darn cute she is, so would not be threatened by her or pay too much attention to what she actually says (or doesn't say) and women would vote for her, because, well, she's a woman. He insulted both genders, and put himself first and the country a very far second, in choosing someone so obviously ill-prepared and unqualified to serve as VP, much less, possibly the president.
Thumbs Up.
And why is Obama prepared again? I keep waiting for someone to come up with a good answer for that.
Because he is intelligent and has a decent knowledge of every issue facing america. She had no ideas of the issues facing 'the lower 48'. He has the charisma to lead the nation and the attitude to get things done. He has served on multiple important committees in the senate. Including Ethics, homeland security, and foreign relations committees. He has visted and actually talked at length with foreign leaders and the rest of the world doesn't hate him.
Abraham Lincoln was a first time State Representative when he won the presidency. Greatest president we ever had. Experience doesn't matter nearly as much as a good message and intelligence.
To figure out the difference between Obama and Palin, don't just watch the lips move... listen to the words!
You mean besides being a Harvard Law grad and a teacher of Constitutional Law and a state senator and a US Senator and the author of two books where he laid out his opinions on matters quite candidly? He has done countless interviews and press conferences on every network. He has demonstrated a grasp of the issues.
I do not understand why the Presidency is the only important job where its ok to be unintellectual and not curious. I can't be a neurosurgeon based on my ability to be relatable and cute, but Palin gets the ability to nuke other countries because she winked during the debate?
My wife is a registered Republican who supported Hillary Clinton. I guarantee that she will not be voting for McCain/Palin. In fact, she commented during the debate that Palin turns her stomach.
Palin would turn the stomach of every women who had a brain
Cannot wait to see SNL tomorrow.
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Step Right Up Folks! *Come* One, *Come* All
She Winks, She Blinks, She Flirts, She Skirts (the questions)
She Has Mystical Powers Unknown to Mortal Man
She Will Sap Your Strength (and your wallet) With One Glance
She Is The She-Devil Wonder On Earth & In Heaven
Step Right Up Folks! *Come* One, *Come* All
To the Greatest Reality Horror Show on Earth
Legalese fine print:
Oh, and for you undecided’s, please vote for Obama
Exactly, Erica.....
The dems introduced the sex-over-substance technique when JFK's appealing, but vapid, virile-man style was pitted against, and trumped, Nixon's substance in the first TV debate. Why complain when the repubs have borrowed, and perfected, the technique?
So JFK himself was "vapid", huh?
Yeah, right.
Huh?
The dividing line in American politics is 1960, when Kennedy used his looks and "hale fellow well met' persona to great effect during the campaign and in the 1000 days that followed his inauguration.
The idea that we Democrats are immune from this, and that we would criticize a woman (but a man) for using it, is HIGHLY sexist. Were John Edwards a 5' 7", 200 pound, pot-bellied trial lawyer (made good) from North Carolina, he never would have been the Vice Presidential choice by our party. Obama has similarly benefited from his good looks and deep resonant voice. It is rather amazing, on this site, for thinking Democrats to be denying their own infatuation with looks - from Kennedy to Obama - but making fun of it when it happens to be a woman (who can't be taken seriously because she is attractive).
Her appeal (non-physical) is bound up with her ability to be glib, in her own folksy way. We all prefer someone who is more attractive, has a nicer sounding voice, and other features that have nothing to do with judgment or intellect. That Democrats - liberal Democrats - would not recognize this about themselves, and would use it as a basis to critique a woman, is quite offensive. Apparently we are in some sort of tangled set of emotions, self-denial and self-righteous about sexual equality.
Oh, and I know Ted Sorensen, Ted Sorensen is a friend of mine, and JFK was no Ted Sorensen.
You and Sarah have a lot in common....
Are you insane? JFK could dance circles around Palin, and most likely you.
Kennedy's self-awareness, and use, of his sex-appeal in the 1960 campaign has been well-documented. In this regard, Obama has taken a page from the Kennedy play book, but he has had to dial it back with the SNL lampooning earlier this year.
I could go on and on with the Edward's haircuts, etc., and don't even get me started on the embarrassing attempts to spruce up the candidate's spouses.
Palin's just following in a long tradition that dates back to Kennedy.
Sex sells--you betcha!
Presidential intelligence rankings (by me)
1. Lincoln 2.FDR 3. JFK...41. Hoover 42. Bush(Jr.) 43. Buchanan
She ma'am is no JFK. :)
Yep, Kennedy was smart enough to use his sex appeal.
She is the female version of Peter Seller's Chance the Gardener character from 'Being There'.
Its both compelling and frightening to see people fill the vacuum she creates with her imponderable, ambiguous comments with whatever they most want to hear.
I pity the poor news interns tasked with preparing transcripts of the debate - just imagine trying to figure out how to punctuate it!
Yes and No.
Chance actually meant what he said about gardening, it was everybody else that misunderstood.
With Moosilini she doesn't *understand* what she was saying...m
I expected her to turn to Biden and chant "Cooookies!"
Very sharp, perceptive observations, Erica. I think her little tricks don't work well on women, and this is why in the end she will not do anything for McCain's campaign - luckily!
She also winks!
I just threw up in my mouth a little
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