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Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 09:51:25 AM EDT
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 The voting was close but Maureen Dowd outDowd herself this week with her piece on Governor Palin. Just to quote a bit....
New York Times Op-Ed 8/31/2008
Vice in Go-Go Boots?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 31, 2008
The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to sprawl on the chaise and watch a vacuously spunky and generically sassy chick flick.
So imagine my delight, my absolute astonishment, when the hokey chick flick came out on the trail, a Cinderella story so preposterous it's hard to believe it's not premiering on Lifetime. Instead of going home and watching "Miss Congeniality" with Sandra Bullock, I get to stay here and watch "Miss Congeniality" with Sarah Palin.
Sheer heaven.
It's easy to see where this movie is going. It begins, of course, with a cute, cool unknown from Alaska who has never even been on "Meet the Press" triumphing over a cute, cool unknowable from Hawaii who has been on "Meet the Press" a lot. and lots more 8/31/2008
Even as a man, I see how many levels this is wrong on. Most of all, she is intentionally demeaning the woman with all sorts of stereotypes before even hearing her convention speech. The Op-Ed was written on the 31st.
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We think there is little competition for Wolcott but who knows what Andrew Sullivan will write next.
Soulmate...?
....or fuck buddy?
John McCain, using the touchy-feely language usually associated with Match.com ads, described his vice presidential pick Sarah Palin as "a partner and soul mate," though to his credit he neglected to call her the wind beneath his sails and sigh, "She completes me." But it doesn't take a Sherlock to deduce from this video (courtesy of The Jed Report), which shows McCain Freudian-fiddling with his wedding ring as he glances sidelong at his running (soul_mate, that his unconscious longs to sack the Republican Party's earthmother savior in the end zone, if I may borrow a football metaphor in honor of the upcoming NFL season.
Here http://www.vanityfair.com/onli...
But we'll still have a secret poll, just like Democrats used to have. |
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