Thank you, Cintra, thank you.

I see you have no problem with the other three robots.

Then again, they ARE men.

They stand when they urinate.

/why aren't they furious about the men?

That's right, folks.

Salon keeps covering Sarah Palin, and the rest of the issues just fly on by!

And if Salon can focus all its resources of Sarah Palin, then maybe it won't have to cover any actual issue!.

And then maybe Obama will lose!

And then Salon's top brass will rejoice!!!

Read all about it at Salon: The Parody!

http://salonparody.blogspot.com

First Gary Kamiya and now Cintra Wilson...stop attacking Sarah Palin for her looks and referring to her in sexual terms! I'm by no means a Palin or Republican fan, but your articles disgust me. You, Salon, have lost another reader of your website.

Again.

We send our kids to be raised by the state in public schools and fed 'truth' in church on the off days. We sublimate their sexuality with homily, extend their adolescence with compulsory education, cripple their vigor with fat foods, sedentary classes, television and bad example.

When time comes to choose a leader through the servile dance of popularity, we purloin their lunchboxes to pad our own pot-bellies and narrow their futures in support of our comfort.

If you gift your children with ignorance and tears, lions and crocodiles should rule the earth.

And now this time is here. Cause-and-effect is the one law. Reap what you sow. The bible is full of high-class thought and feeling.

Elect who you please. It's like shopping for baby food. You decide.

As a sexy librarian myself, I have to take issue with your lede...

It's fortunate for you that your mother didn't feel the same way about her "rights" when she was pregnant with you, but then again, we might not have had to listen to more of the liberal rag that spews from that thing you call a brain. It's people like you that piss women off... the one's who can't seem to get passed people's looks... news flash, goodlooking women can have brains and aspirations beyond beauty queens and victoria secret models. Sounds to me like you're jealous of her... she's a self made woman, with a good family life who holds strongly to her ideals, and believes in her cause. Maybe if you'd paid more attention to her politics and less on her looks you'd know this. At least the conseratives aren't riffling through old town hall meeting minutes from 2 years ago and beyond in search of dirt on our competitors... we have more dignity... besides that, she is by far more experience than the democratic presidential candidate, seeings how she has served more than 143 days, the equivalent of Barak Obama, don't believe me? look it up. So all I have left to say is GO SARAH... you friends and family are behind you. The 49th is behind you all the way.

Seriously. Who would have thunk. I'll bet he is both thrilled and tumescent that he has galvanized the repubs and skinned and boned the demos. We're all atwitter. Everybody wants glasses like Sarah's. And a pregnant daughter, too. Silver shotgun.

What a guy, that John McBush. Brilliant or lucky? You be the judge.

So I just don't get the supposed hotness factor of her. She's a small, petty person.

By the way, LivenAK, you're an idiot. What the hell is 143 days? She's served as Gov for longer than that, as has Obama served much longer than the 143 days.

Sarah Palin is currently the breadwinner of the Palin household. Her husband stays by her side, minds the kids while she campaigns, and generally performs the duties of a political wife. She's not deferring to his ambitions; he's deferring to hers.

So the "Stepford" label obviously doesn't fit Sarah Palin; Palin is the very opposite of a Stepford wife. True, Palin doesn't share the political ideology of the feminist old guard (at least as it pertains to abortion, the only issue that seems to interest it these days). But her life story is a feminist's dream come true. The revolutionary restructuring of the family unit, for which feminists clamored in vain throughout the 1960s and '70s, has come to surprising fruition among, of all people, American evangelical conservatives.

Meanwhile the American left clings to reassuringly reactionary images of traditional family life. Michelle Obama's DNC speech offered a particularly interesting example: Ms. Obama carefully sidestepped the question of her own lucrative career, casting herself as wife and mother in near-total deference to her husband. The effect was almost, well, Stepford-like. If you didn't know better (and most Americans didn't), you'd have sworn that throughout their marriage, she "turned the flapjacks" a la Mamie Eisenhower, instead of pulling down a six-figure salary.

If "the personal is political," as a central tenet of feminism dictates, then it's high time leftists began to evaluate Sarah Palin not in terms of a few litmus tests, but in terms of the ways in which feminism has made her life and political career possible.

Couldn't have said it better myself. The pick of Palin horrifies me on many levels. She's certainly welcome to be who she is, I have no problem with her choices for herself - it's her choices for ME and this country that scare the sh*t out of me.

I don't always agree with your point of view, Cintra, but this article was brilliant. And you perfectly articulated everything that nauseates me about this cynical choice. What I don't get is why is she trumpeting herself as a pit bull (with or without lipstick, for Pete's sake). They're acting like the Democratic party is their enemy! I thought the terrorists were supposed to be their enemy. No, I guess it's Democrats. Their fellow Americans. It is nauseating AND scary. I myself am not a Democrat nor a liberal. Nor a Republican nor a conservative. I seem to find myself at the nexus where all of these beliefs systems meet, but one thing I feel that I am not is someone who is happy to turn a blind eye to the unbelievable amount of corruption that has taken place in the last eight years, along with the society- and economy-wrecking disparity between the classes and the complete trashing of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. I actually am proud to be the kind of American I used to think most Americans wanted to be. I hate the fact that everyone has become so partisan that people will defend THEIR candidate to the death, no matter how fascist or morally bankrupt, just because they're from THEIR party. And I hated the mean-spiritedness and backward-looking fervor of the Republican convention. Yes, Palin is no doubt a clever choice politically. But morally? Economically? Spiritually? Sexually?

Scary.