Hubby got a stiffie from the wink and is trying to cover his embarrassment!!!!
I guess it worked because she is "not sure" what set him off. *snicker*
I was thinking along the same lines. Her husband probably secretly lusts after Governor Palin. Can you blame him? It must be very difficult to be married to someone so filled with hate, then when a connection is made through a wink it is easy to be swept away.
Or, another theory could be that he is so confused by feeling any emotion after being dead inside for so long, that he must translate it into hate, in order to quickly get back to the comfort of feeling dead inside.
After living in a hygene free zone since years earlier per the instructions in the Official Wedding Handbook for DUmmies, facilitating his successfully faking EDS, he was probably exposed during the debate and forced to do the dirty, dirty deed, waking up with so many tiny little "beachcombers", it looked like a scene right out of Gulliver's Travels.
That'd set anyone off.