A large number of men are attracted to Sarah Palin because she is a politician that they want to have sex with.

There aren't that many political figures out there who are sexually attractive to men. So when one show up, she gets a lot of attention.

The Republican Party is feeding off that feeling this election cycle. Recall McCain's reference to his wife entering a topless beauty contest.

Sarah Palin is just a couple of years younger than I am. If I were being totally superficial, I would consider her a potential partner based solely on her looks.

Since I am not totally superficial, either about my love life or about my political choices, I find Sarah Palin abhorrent. But there are millions of men in America who are not that discriminating when women are involved.

John McCain is a weak candidate. The only things he really has going for him are his status as a former POW, and his membership in the Republican Party. There are many people who will vote Republican no matter what, but who have no connection to McCain. Palin gives those people something they can connect with.

For some it is her religious extremism. For some it is her "working mother" role. And for many men it is sexual attraction.

How many male politicians have swayed female voters because they were sexually attractive? I have no guess about numbers, but it has to be far more than zero.

Most people do not vote with their intellect. Should we be surprised that many are voting with their libido?

Having decided to brazen it out, she does a pretty good job.

She had two choices: Admit a mistake, or, Full Speed Ahead.

She chose the latter, and in that context, what she said was an excellent response and defense.

Now, don't get me wrong. Her decision-making is clearly inferior. She is clearly full of shit. I sincerely hope she loses about 80-20.

But having chosen Full Speed Ahead, she does it remarkably well. Karl Rove is probably nodding in agreement somewhere.

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As far as the Tinklenburg ad goes, I couldn't believe how bad it was. I am completely unfamiliar with Minnesota politics, especially those in that congressional district. With the proper understanding, his commercial may be exactly what he needs to unseat her. But based on nothing but the commercial alone, I would have a very difficult time voting for that man.

No, we can't. Not when the subject is Sarah Palin.

I was certainly counting both JFK and Barack Obama when I was talking about women voting for men due to sex appeal. Had you really read what I wrote you would have understood that.

My point was, why is anyone surprised that men are voting with their dicks for Sarah Palin, when voting with your libido is a long-standing American tradition?

I was discussing the feigned outrage about men voting with their dicks. I was wondering why anyone was acting surprised.

Your lack of clarity of thought leads me to believe you must be a Republican.

The commercial breaks on TBS are 45 seconds longer even in the regular season. (At least they were when I was in umpire school in 1995.) And I think they are even longer during postseason.

I listen to MLB.com for my baseball, and the longer breaks are quite evident when you are listening to a radio broadcast.

There are 16 commercial breaks in an eight-and-a-half inning game, such as the one last night. If the breaks are only 45 seconds longer, that is still an extra 12 minutes. And that doesn't count any breaks for mid-inning pitching changes.

MLB is charging higher rates for commercials during the postseason. Is it any wonder that they make the commercial breaks longer to increase the revenue?

When he was just brightstar65 he was an angry ranting anti-liberal and anti-feminist whose arguments led you to believe that his monitor and keyboard were covered in flecks of angry spittle.

Now that he has been "resurrected," he seems a little less angry, but no more coherent.

Nothing has ever been gained by responding to him. We are all much better off if he is just ignored.

I don't think he was saying that he was against it. I think he was saying that they couldn't just up and do it for the World Series this year. Even if both MLB and the umpires wanted it right now.

I think the main reason the fund raising shot through the roof is the national exposure. I would guess that most local races would get a fund raising boost if one of the candidates made a fool of him or herself on national TV.

@ Bassopotamus

Thanks for the context.

So, it's all about her values?

You are all for the extremist young-earth religion being taught in schools as if it were science? You are all for her abuse of power to target her personal enemies? You approve of the only sex education being abstinence-only when her own family is proof that it doesn't work?

You think her fiscal irresponsibility in taking a town of 6000 people with no debt and just a few years later saddling it with 20 million in debt is the kind of executive you support. That is over three thousand dollars per person in municipal debt.

You are all for that?