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Sarah Palin, femme fatale
Globe and Mail ^ | October 22, 2008 | MARGARET WENTE

Posted on 10/22/2008 7:39:18 PM PDT by radar101

Sarah Palin drives men wild. At her rallies, they show up by the thousands. They wave handmade signs that say “Dudes for Sarah,” and buttons that say “Proud to be voting for a hot chick.” Sometimes, they outnumber women 2 to 1. “Marry me!” they yell.

What is it about some men? All a gal needs is high heels, big hair and a pretty face and they lose their doggone minds. Add a saucy dash of right-wing politics and they'll become your love slave. Look at Barbara Amiel or Ann Coulter.

Or the Fox News babes. They've all got that sexy dominatrix thing going. Men who vote conservative can't get enough of it.

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To: radar101
Amazing - this witch calls Palin "ignorant and poorly educated" in this so-called article. Tell that to former Columbia University President and graduate of University of IDAHO (Sarah's alma mater). And how about Terrell Bell, former Secretary of Education - also a graduate of University of IDAHO. Add to that senators, astronauts, authors, and more.

No one in the media seems to know what the requirements for the office of VP. Those requirements DON'T require an Ivy League education or previous time in the senate.

Gad, I hate these people.

41 posted on 10/22/2008 8:05:35 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun (Save the nation from GARF (generated attacks and rhetorical flourishes) - VOTE McCAIN/PALIN)
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To: cherry

I agree on each on your points. And, I HOPE she’s taking down names. -:)


42 posted on 10/22/2008 8:05:59 PM PDT by Wegotsarah.com (WE WIN- WE HAVE SARAH, AND THEY DON'T!)
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To: radar101
And by the way...I call

MANHANDS!

43 posted on 10/22/2008 8:11:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Who is Saul Alinsky and why is Barack Obama a disciple of his methods?)
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To: radar101
Nice to have some identity politics and SUBSTANCE on our side.
44 posted on 10/22/2008 8:11:43 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: radar101
Men who vote conservative can't get enough of it.

And men who vote liberal usually can't get enough of other men who vote liberal.

45 posted on 10/22/2008 8:11:53 PM PDT by NJRighty (Under President B. Hussein Obama, will the stars and stripes be replaced by a hammer and sickle?)
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To: radar101
She even squeezed Peggy "the traitor" Noonan in:

She doesn't think aloud. She just … says things,” wrote Peggy Noonan, the respected Wall Street Journal columnist. “The Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country.”

Thanks Peggy! You sure are advancing conservatism every chance you get!

BTW where is the BARF ALERT ?

46 posted on 10/22/2008 8:12:40 PM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: radar101

What’s Palin’s appeal to middle-aged men? Somehow I have no problem imagining this author, or Nancy Pelosi, or Barbara Boxer standing on a chair and screaming if a mouse came in their house. On the other hand I bet Todd Palin has never had to drop what he was doing just to kill a spider for Sarah.


47 posted on 10/22/2008 8:13:39 PM PDT by blue state conservative
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To: radar101
With all the blathering about women "fainting" at the mere sight of BarryO, and tingles running up Chris Matthews leg over ZerObama...it's hard to believe that the press is weighing in on the influence Sarah Palin has over men.

Sure, she's a babe...but not in the gutter sense implied by the leftist media. Women - especially good looking women - cannot help how their appearance affects men in public. I've always thought it was quite natural for men to be attracted to pretty women, and vice-versa.

It always astounds me when I hear - for example - that some woman stops being a fan of some young, hunky movie star, because he "got married". Yeah, like she would have a shot anyway.

It could be that the "marry me" signs are just a way to show her that people really admire her...after all, would you marry someone you didn't admire? They also might be out there just to pi$$ off the media and the left.

But the Governor of Alaska has more than just physical beauty...she is smart, and she simply exudes CLASS. She is one classy lady.

I find the left to be totaly absurd; if conservative men like meek, feminine women, then we want a woman to be our "slave"; if we admire the Fox news babes...then we're looking for a dominatrix. Maybe, we just like what we see...nothing wrong with that.

The media reminds me of the little diva's that spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery, makeup, hair dos, and reducing salons just to look "hot"...and then call a man a "pervert" for staring at them. Hey, if you don't want the business, then don't hang out the sign.
48 posted on 10/22/2008 8:14:49 PM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is communism, by the drink. O'Rourke)
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To: radar101

Just because the author hasn’t had a man in years, compensates for her smallish malformed udders by putting on excess weight while hiding everything beneath oversized longsleeve flannel shirts and baggy jeans shouldn’t be a reason for her to not like Sarah, Ann or a host of other conservative women.


49 posted on 10/22/2008 8:15:44 PM PDT by fso301
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To: pray4liberty

“Why do liberal women always have that same hag-dog face while conservative women look 10 years younger than their actual age??”

It’s a genetic thing don’t you know. The “Liberal Woman look” comes from perpetual concern for nothing of value while consuming that which is of value.


50 posted on 10/22/2008 8:17:08 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: irv
You'll seldom find a conservative woman married to a liberal man, conservative women can't stand wussy men and most liberal men are just too lacking in manliness.
51 posted on 10/22/2008 8:19:21 PM PDT by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: radar101
English... Pictures, Images and Photos

Probably a good thing that she doesn't show that pretty English smile...

52 posted on 10/22/2008 8:20:36 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: rlmorel
See...liberal women (like the author of this article) think men are threatened by assertive and powerful women. Real men aren't. Real men like and can appreciate a woman like Sarah Palin, especially because she knows how to handle a firearm...:)

As a man I think Sarah is all that and a bag of chips ;) The difference between her and the the liberal hags is that she embraces her femininity, she actually likes and respects men too....OMG!!!! Isnt it amazing that men like and respect her? Feminist women see life so screwed up, men are the enemy....gotta act like a man to get respect. BS, a woman who acts like a woman can accomplish anything she sets her mind to, Sarah Palin being the perfect example. That's why the liberal women hate her, shes a walking talking testament that they are full of sheite, she's also HOT looking which pisses em off even more. I love it....GO SARAHCUDA!

53 posted on 10/22/2008 8:21:06 PM PDT by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: radar101
What is it about some men? All a gal needs is high heels, big hair and a pretty face and they lose their doggone minds. Add a saucy dash of right-wing politics and they'll become your love slave.

The fact that a woman is sensible is prerequisite #1. If she's hot too, well, what more should a guy want?

54 posted on 10/22/2008 8:23:06 PM PDT by supercat (Barry Soetoro == Bravo Sierra)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This is all so absurd. CBS did an hour of belly aching about this wardrobe cost. She’s damned if she does or doesn’t with the media. Can you imagine how they’d ripped her if her family had shown up on stage at the RNC in anything less than the presstitutes approved of.

There is a poll about this (poorly worded) at CBS Extra.

Freep the stupid thing!

Is 150K too much to spend on Palin’s makeover?

No...58%

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2008/10/vote_palins_pricey_wardrobe.php


55 posted on 10/22/2008 8:23:49 PM PDT by AuntB ( "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: radar101

There are liberal women who initially appear more physically attractive than Sarah Palin. The problem is, after those women open their mouths they look like Helen Thomas.


56 posted on 10/22/2008 8:29:17 PM PDT by TChad
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To: radar101; All

Ms Palin is very pretty, and she looks the type of woman who will age gracefully as well. But that’s not her real appeal. Her appeal is that she is authentic.

Even if you don’t like her, you have to admit she’s an original.

I think that’s why so many are jealous of her. They’ve spent their whole lives following the ‘in’ crowd and trying to be unique and different (by being the same). But they know deep down they’re not originals ... they’re wannabes and imitators.

Along comes someone who doesn’t give a damn if you approve of her hobbies, hair, manner of speech, number of children, etc etc. She has the courage to be just who she is ... not perfect, but not trying to be ... and not cow-towin’ to anyone.

Come to think of it, who wouldn’t be jealous of a person like that?


57 posted on 10/22/2008 8:35:49 PM PDT by Lorianne
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“Men who vote conservative can’t get enough of it.”

So? Your point is what? Conservative men should be like liberal men, preferring a male leader inspite of qualifications. Afterall, the liberals passed on Hillary, then Hussein passed on having her as his VP candidate.

Judging from the diss Hillary received from her fellow liberals, and especially her opponent Hussein, both male and female liberals don’t appreciate the value of a woman of their own persuasion. Especially if they seek to serve in a position of power.

Boohoo! The mud is in your face. Since unlike liberal men and women, conservative men and women don’t have a problem with a woman of their own persuasion serving in a position of power. And if she happens to be gorgeous...


58 posted on 10/22/2008 8:36:49 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (Sarah Palin 08,12,16)
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To: hiredhand
Ewww...that does it for me. My thingie just turned inside out and disappeared! :-)

Like a frightened turtle!

59 posted on 10/22/2008 8:39:14 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Welcome PUMAs!)
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To: Snurple; All
This was something I posted a day or two after the RNC...as a "regular guy" (or so I think) who would be in a position to pull the lever for her and McCain here were my thoughts...if you want to get the gist of it...go to her introduction of her husband at the RNC, because that is the heart of why a guy like me would readily vote for her:

Rush Limbaugh is correct when he observes that traditional 60's and 70's style feminists (as well as the sections of the Democratic party that still have two brain cells to rub together) are VERY worried about someone like Sarah Palin, because they recognize the threat she presents to their ideology.

There was an issue recently (I think a few days after her rollout at the RNC, that she was criticized for something she wore.

I thought that particular angle, just the clothes, portrayed and symbolized much more than the cloth they were cut from.

This has been discussed endlessly, but it just begs for the rich treasure trove of opinions because...it is rich in many ways, but most of all, it is rich with steely irony (Which admittedly, is lost on many liberals. Irony is not on their radar.)

Liberals have been tilting at windmills with dishonor via George W. Bush, and before him, Ronald Reagan. But if you have followed politics closely, you can easily see that neither Reagan nor Bush frightened Liberals in the same way Sarah Palin does, because neither of those two presented such a deadly threat to the heart of their ideology.

Sarah Palin goes right for their jugulars of victimhood, bitterness and divisiveness. Their culitvated misandry (hate or contempt of men or boys) which is the feminine yin to the yang of the better known term, misogyny. She is a direct threat to one of the main structural pillars of the democratic party, which is Radical Feminism. I have hope that she is preparing herself to destroy that pillar of liberalism. She is not Superwoman, but she is pretty sharp, and she knows what the stakes are.

As Ann Coulter describes in her book "Treason", liberals will fight with desperation, as they did during the Clinton years when he had to show himself to the nation as a liar. And those liberals fought as they did, because it directly threatened to expose one of the other structural pillars of liberalism, and that is Deception. He was in front of the American Public with his pants down, figuratively speaking. So they fought back, in Ann Coulters phrase, "like cornered animals".

A couple of other rich areas are sexism with respect to the coming battle between the liberals regarding their concealed (they think) sexism, and in the campaign as a whole, racism.

A Freeper recently said: "...If a conservative had said anything at all about the way Hillary was dressed, it would have been called sexist...."

Pfft. Like the stuff I say all the time. I have such a dislike for the politics and attitude of the Clintons that I even see her nearly bitter animosity towards some of the concepts of Conservatism expressed concisely in the things she wears.

I will readily admit that one of the things I think is absolutely CAPITAL about Sarah Palin is her femininity that by all observations goes hand in hand with an agile brain (And that brain seems very well rooted in conservatism.) I wrote something a while back about Hillary, which I recount here:

She will never, ever get MEN to vote for her. I am not talking about Rush Limbaugh's "New Castrati". I am talking about Normal Men.

To many men, her voice is like chalk on a board. It is the sound etched deep into the primordial areas of Man's Brain, and it is the sound of a woman who is very, VERY angry at him.

Her voice is shrill...and resonates a perfect, exquisitely awful dissonance at certain frequencies.

Primordial Man first heard that sound when he dragged his filthy, muddy ass into that clean, dry cave and was lit into by Primordial Woman because he didn't clean the swamp ooze off of his feet, or the Wooly Mammoth guts off of his malodorous fur skin.

That is the voice of Hillary Clinton. She tries to hide it. She tries very hard. But no matter how hard she tries, there are times she opens that mouth and every man with that Primordial Man inside him, hears Her voice.

It is clear she dislikes men. But what REALLY gives her away (and the radical feminists by extension) is the spectacle of the fake affection she has shown towards her husband, simply accepting it as a personal cost to her as she grasps for power. The the contempt she holds him in (and richly deserved in my opinion) is real which makes her willingness to prostitute herself (along with any shreds of principle she may have retained) in order to gain and keep power, a particularly egregious insult.

Quite a difference from Sarah Palin.

The sound of Hillary saying "... "I'm not sitting here as some little woman 'standing by my man' like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together..." has all the feminine charm of a chainsaw cutting through a large plastic log.

Now.

I just want to paint a contrast here. And folks...this is the part that really made me smile, because it will be such a boon for our country if she can deal a deadly blow to Radical Feminism. If she does, she may cripple the feminist movement in the same way Joseph McCarthy crippled the Communist movement in this country. He made it disreputable.

This is what Sarah Palin may do to free millions of young girls and women from the societal influence of the bitter brand of feminism that has tried to destroy the family and drive a wedge between men and women. I believe that Radical Feminism has been one of the most powerful negatively eroding forces in our country since the middle of the Sixties. A very destructive, divisive and wasteful ideology.

One would read this and wonder how on earth Sarah Palin could destroy the Feminist movement. What would her "weapon" be?

Ironically enough, her Femininity.

She likes men, and it is evident she has real respect and affection for her husband. When one is forced to watch leftist junk on television showing fathers as being contemptible, incompetent, idiotic boobs, you would think American Husbands are the lowest form of life on earth, surpassed only by men in general. (Brent Bozell has written brilliantly and insightfully on this viewpoint.)

THIS is what struck me during her acceptance speech.

Did anyone else hear this during Sarah Palin's acceptance speech, when she talked about her husband:

Todd is a story all by himself.

He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers' Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.

Throw in his Yup'ik Eskimo ancestry, and it all makes for quite a package.

We met in high school, and two decades and five children later he's still my guy.

In the same breath she ended speaking, even though the camera was on her husband and not her, I thought I heard something in that moment when she stopped talking. I heard, just barely above the threshold low enough to miss it... a giggle. A real, giggle. Just four little heh-heh-heh-hehs under the breath, almost as if she tried to keep them bottled up inside of her chest, so everyone there wouldn't hear it. She involuntarily giggled to herself almost completely inaudibly, but the sensitive microphone picked it up. I went back and listened to it on Youtube, and sure enough...it was an affectionate, genuine giggle of a girl for a guy.

As a man, it was a wonderful thing to hear. It was very feminine, from a woman who sees nothing wrong with femininity, who didn't view her "guy" as a contemptible enemy.

And that, folks, if Mrs. Palin pulls this off, is going to be the thing that girls and young (or not so young) women can look to with genuine admiration and excitement. This is a pathway that they can follow in their lives without being compelled to compromise their principles.

And if this generation of women see that path and take it, it will be a great thing for our country and our society.

After that, conservatives can help blacks (and our nation) in the same way by producing a black man who is more a disciple of Thomas Sowell instead of Saul Alinsky.

And when that happens, blacks will be freed in the same way that next generation of young women will be freed.

60 posted on 10/22/2008 8:45:00 PM PDT by rlmorel (Who is Saul Alinsky and why is Barack Obama a disciple of his methods?)
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