[Per-Ling]

This is a double hit: Palin = pig; McCain = “old fish”

[muawiyah]

No, it's a double hit on Palin ~ "fish", and "lipstick" ~ both the kind of references male homosexuals make about women, and about what are known as "lipstick lesbians".

Obama is really shaken up to have let down his guard this far.

[Jagman]

This is a double hit: Palin = pig; McCain = “old fish”

I disagree; the second is the most vile thing 13 year old punks say about girls. Pure misogyny.

[ConservativeMind]

The reference was particularly unkind if Palin was the reference.

Implying a woman is a “stinky fish” has connotations which are grossly impolite.

[Postman]

In his usual, off prompter, style, the empty suit tried to claim in his press conference this morning that his lipstick comment was not an attack on Governor Palin.

This might have worked had he not, as you pointed out, followed the lipstick slur with the old fish slur.

It doesn’t take a detailed reading of Freud’s “Psychopathology of Everyday Life” to know that the empty suit meant exactly what he said; his audience knew exactly what he meant and the McCain campaign knows exactly that his crude comments referred to Sarah Palin and John McCain.

I’ve heard some long in the tooth Publicans go out of their way to give the empty suit the benefit of the doubt. If any of you are reading this, STICK YOUR NOSE WHERE IT BELONGS; YOU LOST YOUR FIGHT IN 2006. THIS IS A NEW ERA!!!