Sarah Palin: lipstick pitbull

Is this who you want as a Vice President? Sure, the picture is a fake, unfortunately (the real one is HERE), but it might as well be true! [I poached this picture from HERE].

There was a very funny/scary/informative article by AA Gill in The Sunday Times today. I've attached the link in the post title above (click on it to read the whole thing). If you don't feel like it, I've pasted a few of the more interesting sections below:

"The Republicans chose St Paul for their convention because, like Colorado, Minnesota is a swing state. It doesn’t swing very far and it doesn’t swing very often and it doesn’t swing in a way that is exciting. This is where the Swedes and Norwegians came to try to whittle Scandinavia out of the hem of Canada. Back home they grew to be the most liberal nations in the world. Here they grew silent and maudlin. There’s a Minnesotan joke – only the one. It goes like this: there was an old Norwegian man who loved his wife so much he almost told her. That was so funny I almost laughed."

"At this convention the Republicans have just 36 black delegates. That is perhaps the most shocking statistic of the whole election. That’s less than 2% of all the delegates. Fewer than one per state and less than any other election for 40 years. THOSE are the interesting things that I found out on Monday and Tuesday. But on Wednesday everything changes. It all gets Technicolor with sprinkles on top and it comes back to the subject closest to Republican hearts: sex. Sex and the young. Hot, procreative sex."

" Depending on how fundamentally hard right you are, Palin is either a godsend who speaks to the experience of ordinary small-town large-breasted American women and sticks two fingers in the eyes of the coastal latte liberals. Or she’s a hideously embarrassing mistake that will swamp the election in underclass redneck sexual incontinence and that everything is about damage limitation and trying not to think about what would happen if President McCain died and this was the first family. Not so much from igloo to White House as igloo to White Trailer."

"She has been given a speech that is as well oiled and finely crafted as a synchronised beaver trap. It’s very aggressive. It goes for the throat of liberals and Obama. It mocks and it ridicules. And some of it hits home. It’s good for the room. They cheer to the echo. But outside, down the unforgiving prurient tube, I think she looks hard and calculating and a bit of a bitch. I can imagine people all over the country saying, I wouldn’t want her for my mom. The first poll seems to indicate that she loses a vote for every one she wins."

"Yet the most sustained excitement of the week isn’t for Trig or Sarah or even McCain, or sticking it to Barack. It’s for oil. For self-sufficiency. For cutting the umbilical pipeline with the eyeball-eating, terrorist-funding Middle East and the commie gangsters of Latin America and Russia. Let the world wallow in its own sump and turpitude. America needs to drill, drill for its dream. The marvellously priapic image of getting the bit between the loins had them chanting, then shouting, then roaring: 'Drill baby, drill baby, drill baby, drill.'"