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Palin's "Little Starbursts"
I promise you I did not make up this quote from Rich Lowry:
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. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/palins-superpow....
A number of my XX Factor colleagues here said that the debate tonight wasn't "about" gender. I guess that's true, but on the other hand, it was, at least in one small way. On CNN, the tracked "real time" reactions of uncommitted Ohio voters were divided by sex. And boy, did Biden simply not seem to connect with male voters. Those same men seemed to like Palin, though—a lot more than the women did. The Ohio women thumbed their disapproval when Palin got cutesy ("It's 'Drill, baby, drill' "), sending her ratings down. Women *really* didn't like it when Palin talked about Iraq and the "white flag of surrender." And they loved it when Biden talked about Pakistan. Meanwhile, any time Palin turned and faced the camera, the men's ratings shot up attentively. This division may have a lot to do with issue keywords—that is, a difference in which issues mean what to the two sexes in Ohio. But it was striking nonetheless. Gender may not be an issue, but I still contend that Eros is one, and Palin just has much more charge on stage than Biden does. (I have to say, I don't think that his suit or tie helped; he seemed overdressed, overformal.)

Meanwhile, I was disappointed (if not surprised) to find that one of their few moments of total agreement concerned the issue of gay marriage. When Biden firmly said "no," neither he nor Obama supported gay marriage, I thought: *here* is politics as usual. Two candidates who've suffered discrimination in different ways (Obama, Palin) yet both defend a profound form of continued discrimination. Nice.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/03/returning-to-the...
...it appears Sarah Palin bewitched the men folk in the punditry with her fetching blink.
Roger Simon, whose brains seem to have been leaking through a sieve ever since
he joined Politico, was one of those smitten with her eyelash action.
But if people thought she was going to look like a dumb bunny for 90 minutes,
they were disappointed. She said what she wanted to say, and she was so
relaxed she even winked at one point. Really! An actual wink during a national
debate, when she said she was going to try to get John McCain to change his
mind about not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.I hope that wink
wasn't a lurid signal that Palin plans to bestow lipstick favors on her running
mate to get him to change his mind about ANWR, breathily promising him that
she'll show him the true meaning of drilling in Alaska if only he'll say yes.
That would be so wrong on so many levels.
Perhaps she intends only to "wink him off," to paraphrase the famous joke told
by Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail. But even that would be a dismayingly
inappropriate way to further the cause of domestic oil exploration, in my
opinion.
As for Rich Lowry (courtesy of Kos), he too felt Palin's wink winging his way.
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.Good thing
Palin didn't blow a kiss at the camera or Lowry might have fucking fainted. I'm
not a licensed psychotherapist but when you think the people on TV are
addressing you personally and directly it's often a sign of incipient dementia.
I confess to being immune to Palin's contrived charms. Everything about her
strikes me as phony--she possesses about as much depth as aluminum siding. And I
wasn't surprised to read that Gwen Ifill was a dud as a moderator--her vaunted
reputation is one of those Beltway myths, like David Broder's mantle of
judiciousness.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2008/10/i-missed-the-veep-last.html

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[eshfemme]

I love how Keith Olbermann reproduces the fanboy orgasmic tone of voice Rich Lowry would have. LOL!

[JournalistJohnson]

The Republicans are such tools.

[QuartuvLarry]

That's it? That little straw Olbertardd grasps for?

What, does creaming your pants over fat slag Janeane Garofalo make you BEST person in the world?

Sheesh!

[AnusreeAnuradha1]

ahi really need to find somebody who clicks with me

[Roonskii]

$20

[librophile]

Rich Lowry (National Review) ...

Starting from puberty, when exactly did you graduate from being an apprentice or junior bator ... to become a master bator? LOL

[wildpeachatl737]

A good mule kick to the head will give you the same effect, Rich. Does that dude need a date or what?!

[armadilloze]

What is WRONG with wingers? Funny, yet sad. Also. Too.

Palin/Muthee 12

[JamesCraven2007]

Everyone in the room LTMFAOs off after that.

[54spiritedwill54]

LOL! McCain winks his eye too, they are so full of it.

[NightroadxAngel]

Wow...."I don't care if you masturbated during the debate,but did you have to tell the world?"

That's not suprizing considering the fact her teenage daughter is pregnant and she lets her 7 year old wear high heels(and I'm not talking about the cutsie plastic princess slippers either)Thank God she's not president.If they can't teach their own kids better,what makes them think they can lead a community or country?