NY Times: "Lipstick Bungle."

[muntrv]

Op-Ed Columnist
Lipstick Bungle


By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: September 19, 2008
Mr. McCain, on Monday you repeated your delusional notion that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Now, the federal government is working on a deal to save that economy from collapsing. You have admitted that the economy is not your forte, so you could have used a running mate with some financial chops. (Remember Mitt Romney?)

But no. Who did you pick? SnowJob SquareGlasses whose financial credentials include running Wasilla into debt, listing (but not selling) a plane on EBay and flip-flopping on a bridge to wherever. In fact, when it comes to real issues in general, she may prove to be a liability.

In what respect, you may ask?

It turns out that the Republican enthusiasm for Sarah Palin is just as superficial as she is. They were so eager for someone to cheer for (because they really don’t like you) that they dove face first into the Palin mirage. But, on the issues, even they worry about her.

In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted this week 77 percent of Republicans said that they had a favorable opinion of Palin. But when asked what specifically they liked about her, their top five reasons were that she was honest, tough, caring, outspoken and fresh-faced. Sounds like a talk-show host, not a vice president. (By the way, her intelligence was in a three-way tie for eighth place, right behind “I just like her.”)

When those Republicans were asked what they liked least about her, they started to sound more like everyone else. Aside from those who said that there was nothing they didn’t like, next on the list were: her lack of experience, her record as governor and her lack of foreign-policy experience.

Also, most Republicans think you only picked her to help with the election, not because she is qualified, and a third said that they would be “concerned” if for some reason she actually had to serve as president.

And Palin is proving to be just as vacant as people suspected. In her interview with Charles Gibson last week, she didn’t know what the Bush doctrine was. At your first joint town hall meeting with her in Michigan on Wednesday, in front of an invitation-only crowd of Republicans no less, she dodged substantive questions about the issues as if they were sniper fire, while issuing a faux challenge to the audience to play a game of “stump the candidate”. Seriously?

Many of your supporters will no doubt cry sexism. Fine with me. But that defense rings hollow. I find many of them to be sexist. Fresh-faced? Delegates on the floor of the Republican National Convention wearing buttons like “Hoosiers for the hot chick”?

Seriously.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/opinion/20blow.html?th&emc=th

[CakeGrrl]

1. "SnowJob SquareGlasses". Ouch.

:rofl:

She's gonna love that one. Welcome to the Big Leagues!

[trueblue2007]

5. I prefer SpongeBobSquarePants instead of the Lipstick on the Bitch

BITCH is the word that should be used at this time!!!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch

Bitch is a term for the female of a canine species in general. It is also frequently used as a term for a malicious, spiteful, domineering, intrusive, or unpleasant person, especially a woman. This second meaning has been in use since around 1400.<1> When used to describe a male, it may also confer the meaning of "subordinate", especially to another male, as in prison. Generally, this term is used to indicate that the person is acting outside the confines of their gender roles, such as when women are assertive or aggressive, or when men are passive or servile. More recent variants of bitch are bitchy, ill-tempered (1925), and to bitch, to complain (1930).<1>

Since the 1980s, the term "bitch" became more and more accepted and less offensive. After the word was widely used between rivals Krystle and Alexis on the drama Dynasty, it gained usage, in malicious contexts or otherwise, and is now very rarely censored on television broadcasts. Prior to the term's general acceptance, euphemism terms were often substituted, such as "gun" in the phrase "son of a gun" as opposed to "son of a bitch". More generally the term has also acquired the meaning of something unpleasant or irksome, as in the expression "Life's a Bitch".

[adamuu]

10. I am a SB fan. This is an insult to SB

cease immediately.

[AZBlue]

2. "the Republican enthusiasm for Sarah Palin is just as superficial as she is"

Nicely put!
:rofl:

[malik flavors]

3. Nice Op-Ed right thar.

[me b zola]

4. Leads off with McCain's delusional notions

:rofl:

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. McCain may have just handed this election to Obama on a silver platter...

and just doesn't know it. Good Republicans and moderates have reason to be concerned about Palin, and her ability to lie at the drop of a hat, and I'm hopeful that they'll reject her come November.

[Miss Chybil]

7. SnowJob Squareglasses!!!!!

ROFLMAO!

[Turn CO Blue]

8. Ditto! My stomach hurts from laughing at that one...SnowJob Squareglasses!!!!!

[JimWis]

9. Ditto - I had to write that one down - great post

[flamingdem]

11. Snowjob !!

Love it.

[Cha]

12. Snow job is a nice

non sexist description of palin.