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Say, Glenn --"can I ask to ask to call you Glenn, so that later on in this alleged debate I can clumsily and gratuitiously throw in a highly rehearsed groaner that rhymes with your name and is followed by a Ronald Reaganism?"
If you're a woman, you can easily see how Palin was trying to flirt with the men out there in tv land: the plastered beauty contestant smile, the calculated bug-eye opening timed a couple of seconds before each wink, the head tilts, the barroom-level casualness.
My hope is that while the old guys who like McCain anyway probably got their jollies, any guy under 60 just laughed at the obviousness of it all. One thing's for sure: I think we can all retire the idea that the poor l'il gal needs a reassuring hug.
