Sarah Palin The dominatrix

http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/09/09/mistress_palin/

The dominatrix
Sarah Palin is trying to seduce independent voters. But she comes across like a whip-wielding mistress who wants to discipline a naughty America.

By Gary Kamiya


Sept. 9, 2008 | Sarah Palin has thrown a big-time scare into Democrats. The GOP ticket received a huge bounce after the convention, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll, and McCain now leads Obama among registered voters, 50 percent to 46 percent. And it's mostly Palin's doing. The "elite media" that Palin and her fellow Republicans so lovingly excoriated in St. Paul, Minn., is reporting that her entrance into the race may have put crucial states like Ohio in play. The tough-talking, gun-toting "hockey mom" who believes that America's wars are God's will has fired up social conservatives, restarted the culture wars so beloved of Republicans, and shifted the election from being about issues into a personality contest.

Post-convention polls are highly unreliable. But the same Democrats who were crowing with glee a week ago about McCain's off-the-wall choice are suddenly panicking. And you can't blame them. Four years after Americans looked at the first term of the worst president in modern history and decided they liked what they saw well enough to sign up for four more years, it's all too plausible that just when victory is in sight, the most crucial election of our time could be tipped by the 11th-hour appearance of a slick, unqualified, right-wing extremist and religious zealot in designer glasses.


Republican strategists have made it clear that the GOP's only chance to win is by reframing the election as a battle of images. And right now, Palin is the pinup queen in that war. She's feisty, she's a mom, she's from a frontier state, she guns down wolves from the air, she's a devout Evangelical, she poses as a reformer, and she insults the Washington elites.

And large numbers of Americans think she's hot.

apparently there is a photo of her at a bar.........

not to mention grossly unqualified.

that people are that shallow and downright stupid to want a person like this a heartbeat away from the presidency. I really cannot understand this. We are seeing things in this country go down the tubes. Education, never ending war, home foreclosures, job losses, high gas prices and the list goes on. I wouldn't care if I had been raised in a republican household and fucked up and voted twice for Bush! Any person with half a brain would see this for what it is! MCCain is the same as George and I really don't know who to characterize her ass. I would rather get some guy who teaches political studies at a community college for vp. At least I would know that he has some understanding of the United States and the world we live in. This is downright stupid!

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