isn't the same as sexist coverage.

The campaign hit on Sarah's good looks and good legs and thought they could dress her up for even more leverage.

If I had a nickel for every "Joe Sixpack" of my acquaintance who has countered my disgust with her lack of knowledge and brain cells with "yeah, but she's hot"...I could fund the rest of the Obama campaign.

They deliberately made a decision that pumping up the volume on Palin's pretty face and figure would get them more than running ads for some poor schmuck trying to hang onto his seat in the hinterlands.

Sex sells, goes the addage. I think the RNC invested heavily in it.

So...ta da...the sexist prize goes to those who thought they could package a big box of nothing in gold foil and it would get them into the inaugural ball. Sarah has (with her exuberant cooperation) been exploited in the oldest game (older than politics) on earth.

They thought Hillary's girls would fall for this? And while you're ignorantly sending a woman out to harvest those votes, why not net the slobbering menfolk as well. How's that workin' out for ya?

right onto the burning bandwagon and called her personally before giving the story a chance to really smell bad enough for a close look.

Being a depraved hate monger does have its upside. A personal call from your heroes. love to know if they called again after she confessed.

It makes me cringe to see you suggest that Palin is headed toward the front of the GOP when McCain goes down, as thpugh you are applauding the fairness of that outcome (if, God help us it could be the awful truth)

Palin is clearly a master manipulator. The winks, the shrugs, the smirks as she gushes trash and lies. Through some of her comments and actions it is clear that Palin doesn't even know what she doesn't know.

It is also clear that her lack of performance is being blamed (by her) on the muzzle the campaign put on her. You saw how she handled interviews...she's not a lightweight in need of tutoring, she is an arrogant moron.

And if you read the reports of how she has used the resources of the governor's office to pad her own pocketbook (per diems for her own home whlle the governor's mansion is empty, trips for her kids, etc....it is easy to believe Sarah Palin had a hand in wardrobe-gate. No one who enters a beauty contest is immune to believing she can get what she wants by behaving as Palin behaves. That's the real sexism here.

What the McCain camp discovered too late wasn't Palin's gross incompetence and intellectual limitations. It was her EGO.

Joan, she incites the basest of the GOP base, that's all. And a couple of nutty neocons who would back a sack of rocks to stay in power.

It ain't gonna happen. And I am SHOCKED that you would suggest, much less appear to relish it.

McCain is where he is because Barack Obama is intelligent, honest, informed, empathetic, moral, enlightened, charismatic, believable, trustworthy...etc. etc. etc.

Obama is the reason...not the footnote to...McCain's and the GOP's failure.

That needs to be acknowledged and respected. And I hope it is after Nov. 4...when the best man officially crosses the finish line way out in front.

It's about time.

for shining the kleig lights on Palin's two faces. Unfortunately, it won't keep the Sarahbots from howling and screeching about how she bin done wrong.

Thank God Halloween is just around the corner. It will such a relief to see somebody else masquerading for a change.

xxxoooxxx

While not new revelations in terms of the low-grade knowledge or suspicion that this is the "world"... you pulled it all together into undeniable focus.

It''s disgusting, and your "let the players paint the picture" approach makes it the more so.

I admire your ability to illuminate by shining pinlights in the right places, rather than rushing in with the grand expose apparatus.

Your rock. Perhaps your next book should be about the descent of journalism (on some fronts) into the shameful businesses of pimping and pandering.

It is, I believe, a gender-inclusive term. As for diva, there are plenty of male equivalent (deserved or not) slurs.

The fact that anyone has to worry about whether calling Palin a certain name (other than the c-word, which is out-of-bounds) is to give credence to the idea that criticism of her is sexist. Gender-specific words are ok.

She's a bitch. McCain is a prick. There. The only things wrong with those designations are the attached whys and wherefores. They need to be known or present to make it all kosher.

She is a whack job. For so many reasons already stated and proven in so many places. Sexist?No.

It sets us back decades to imply that it's politically (no pun intended) incorrect to call a bitch a bitch.

Please don't make me go back to my momma's day.

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has been going on too long. The Dem's need to stop paying and know that it will be an improvement to have that smirking, self-satisfied jackass join his real compadres on their sinking ship.

Or would the surgical removal of a festering sore be a better analogy.

Either way.

So long Joltin' Joe. I wish I could say we hardly knew you.

Heads up Connecticut. NOW do you get it?

Memo to Dems...we will all hate you if you don't finally stand up and take out the trash.