I watched Sean Hannity interview of Sarah Palin on Fox News last week hoping for some greater insight into the mind of the woman who wants to be our next vice president. It left me feeling rather uncomfortable. I was struck by the tone of the interview. I felt like I was a voyeur snooping on a couple in love, out on a date.
James Rainey, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times also observed that Hannity was smiling dreamily at the Alaskan beauty, lamenting that he wished he had more time. In his article "Todd and Sarah Palin unchallenged in Fox interviews." He observed Hannity's "weak kneed idolization of the governor." (More)
Her good looks and sex appeal have become a powerful political weapon. Then I came across this somewhat erotic Newsweek article by Sam Harris in which he waxes poetic:
Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by Sarah Palin's performance at the Republican convention. Given her audience and the needs of the moment, I believe Governor Palin's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who—being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy—could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country." If anyone could make Christian theocracy smell like apple pie, Sarah Palin could.
I watched the speech myself, and whereas the Governor's deliver of the speech was excellent, she certainly did not plant a heel in my forehead. A commentator on Daily Kos summed up Palin's effect succinctly:"Every man wants to do her." Sarah seems to have given America a giant hard-on.