If one concedes that the lipstick was a reference to Palin, one has to concede that the pig wearing the lipstick is also a reference to her.
Which is why the crowd roared and jumped to its feet.
No one does not.
Lipstick on a pig is a phrase that means you can’t take something ugly try to dress it up and pretend its not ugly.
Fauxbama and the full text is here and out there for anyone to look at clearly attacked McCain/Bush’s policies and then said they are the same old same old, you can’t put lipstic on a pig.. its still a pig... etc etc.
The choice of using the word lipstick was no doubt an attempt at getting the nightly sound bite because it plays to her famous joke , but in the context of what he said you cannot get to him suggesting Palin was the pig.
It was incredibly juvenile and unbelievable STUPID, because the statement can so easily be taken out of context and used to portray that’s what he said, and make no mistake that there are plenty of folks on the left who have said it meaning completely Palin is the Pig when they did, that’s not what Fauxbama said.
I will give you this, it’s possible that Obama wanted to give a new meaning to the word lipstick. I just think it makes the Republicans look small by making a big issue out of it. It seems that Palin is smarter then any of the Washington Insiders. I don’t agree that he was calling Palin a pig. I think he just wanted to take that word and use it in a different way. I agree with Palin, this is stupid. She is a smart women. Sometimes Rush gets carried away because he himself sometimes lacks honesty. The guy has issues, though I like him, I am still aware he has issues and this is one of those times when it’s apparent.