An irresistible diary, for which I offer a pre-emptive apology!
I've been reading through all the diaries rolling through here on the choice of Gov. Palin, trying to gain my own sense of this turn of events. I'd just about had my fill and was getting ready to turn off the laptop and move on into the holiday weekend. As is my habit, I clicked on my "Favorites" list one last time, wondering if I'd missed any important and insightful commentary.
Now, I know I'm not the only one out there who has this guilty-pleasure website among my favorites. What can one say about Hot Chicks With Douchebags. For the unfamiliar, it is the premier website that exists solely to mock, before the entire world, the posings and struttings of... hot chicks and the douchebags who pose with them. That is, it posts pictures of the aforementioned HCwDBs, accompanied by unrestrained commentary and by downright clinical observation of the mating behavior of the inhabitants of this universe. Red plastic beer cups, bikinis, hand gestures, bling, boats, and other key accoutrements play a big role in the world of Hot Chicks with Douchbags. And every week/month the proprietors of the site recognize the HCwDB of the Week/Month.
As I gazed upon my Favorites, I sez to myself: "Wonder if HCwDB is on top of this story? Could it be that they recignize this as the all-time, ultimate HCwDB pair? But, no, this has just happened.... They can't be THAT fast and that smart!"
I was wrong. Someone was reading my mind:
Not since the Bush/Quayle pairing of 1988 have a douche and a hot chick run for office together.
For crotchety oldbag whining, for telling me to get off his lawn, and for picking a former beauty queen as his #2, John McCain earns this month's honorary HCwDB of the Month.
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...for today's idiotic selection, let's give John McCain a hearty douche of the month award. You've earned it, old wrinkly guy. Not to mention dumping your first wife for a 24 year old beer heiress. Your history of wonky douchitude is a long and inglorious one, Keating #5.
I'll let you read the rest, for your own guilty pleasure.
Beneath the snark of it all, there is some deep and legitimate psycho-socio-political connection between the usual targets of HCwDB and the Republican presidential nominee. In other words, I do think McCain just sewed up the depressingly large douchebag constituency.
But now, I must get over to The Onion to see how THEY are covering this!