What Palin Tells Us About The GOP

[Joanne98]

A reader writes:

The shocker is not that Palin was chosen, or that she turns on Rich Lowry. (Let's face it: Palin is incredibly attractive, she uses her sex appeal to make straight men wither, women have been using that strategy since Cleopatra, and men will continue to cave in to such tactics until at least the next Ice Age.) The real shocker is that conservative Republicans -- after 8 years of George Bush -- are *again* willing to put all their hopes into a charismatic, folksy leader who is ideologically rigid and intellectually stupid. With her complete inability to express herself on complex issues, and her willingness to mask that with folksy charm and talking points, Palin is a carbon-copy of W.
Wouldn't you think that conservatives would be more wary of her after seeing the destruction that George Bush has wrought? The fact that they splash Palin's picture on the cover of the National Review with the words "The One," while knowing full well she lacks any intellectual fortitude and will therefore require a shadow presidency (is Todd Palin the next Dick Cheney?), tells me it will take a deeper collapse of America's foundations for conservatives to realize that this strategy is, has been, and always will be, fundamentally flawed.
Palin is the aroma that rises from the corpse of American conservatism. And they find it invigorating.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/what-palin-tell.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I love that last sentence.

How true.

[YDogg]

2. [palin] "uses her sex appeal to make straight men wither"

:wtf:

[WCGreen]

3. The only thing that withers...

is my thing...

[cliffordu]

11. lol. Me too.....

[TlalocW]

7. Some men

Conservative men and guys who had fantasies about their school's librarian.

TlalocW

[YDogg]

8. not that there's anything wrong with that.

the school librarian part, doncha know.

[TlalocW]

9. Well, as long as

The fantasies don't include her saying things like, "Hay dere, stud... I can show you a good time, doncha know!"

TlalocW

[Aviation Pro]

4. Sarah Pornstar is ditch liquor to the male members of the....

...Got Old People Party and they are quaffing it by the barrel full.

(Note: Ditch liquor is the waste fluid used by pig farmers instead of fresh water to fatten swine before they send them to slaughter).

[underpants]

5. She is talk radio in human form. 4 years ago if we didn't re-elect them "we will be hit again"

NOW complete lack of experience or insight is what we need. Uh-huh.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. And the rest of the repukes are standing there like deer in the headlights

allowing their party to swirl down the toilet. I am really scratching my head at this. At least Nixon had the fortitude to resign to save the party. But this pair of lunatics, being egged on by the rightest and most fringiest of the lunatic RW fringe and their bloviating blowhards on the radio, have brought an unmitigated disaster upon the GOP.

I expect that one day they will wake up and say, "My God, what hath we wrought?"

[ibegurpard]

10. she's "incredibly attractive?"

whatever...i would say she's unremarkably pretty. that's all.