It's not just the T-shirts that say "The Hottest Governor from the Coolest State."
It's not the come-hither poses for Vogue magazine.
It's not the photo of the "Babe" in a red-white-and-blue bikini hoisting some sort of assault rifle (yeah, Sarah, we get it!)....
It's not the fecund daughter and the studly young Impregnator and self-described "fucking redneck" paraded around as a show of glorious testosterone meeting glorious virgin estrogen.
The response, the roars, the bellows of support for the attractive Palin drove home a point to me:
This candidate is all about sex.
Remember, we Democrats have done sexy for ages. We set the gold standard for sexy candidates with JFK.
We've had an unending parade of good-looking men since then: Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, Jimmy Carter (in his day, he looked good in jeans), Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, John Edwards .... the list goes on and on.
The closest any Republican candidate has come to "sexy" was Bob Dole and his Viagra commercial.
Think about their parade of un&^%able men: Nixon, Goldwater, Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain ....
The only sexy GOPer was Reagan, who was well into senility by the time he took office.
I think a great deal of this pent-up release we're seeing, this forward thrust of Republican lust, is just that: they finally have a candidate they would love to -- no, not invite to a BBQ for a beer -- but sneak away with into the neighbor's pool house after the BBQ is over.
Which is apparently what Gov. Palin was doing (metaphorically, at least) with the business partner. Details to come, awaited breathlessly by a horny Republican "base."
DRILL BABY DRILL!
I don't think it is necessarily OIL they all want to drill....
Can you help me come up with some way this overarching truth can be turned back against the Repubs? I know, I know -- Obama is plenty sexy for any one ticket. But I mean a way we can use this knowledge to ridicule them in a significant way.