The problem with what you're saying is Palin is a) not male and b) has made it clear by her own actions that she wants us to notice she is a woman. She wears her infant son Trig (is that his name) as a badge of honor and she leads around the rest of her family like poker chips. And besides, the only reason McCain picked her is because SHE IS A WOMAN. So what's so hard to understand about this? Palin's femaleness is a political issue.

Does Mr Kamlya really believe what he writes or did he simply decide that by using the words dominatrix and Palin in the same sentence his little essay was a sure in on this website? I think the latter.

The left is in a state of irrational frenzy not because Palin comes across as a dominatrix but because she is a Hillary Clinton that women and men actually like. As one of the NYTimes columnists put it, we see Hillary as a politician who happens to be a woman and Sarah as a woman who happens to be a politician. That is what has made her attractive.

When McCain and Palin talk about change, it is not empty rhetoric. And while many of you will never, ever get it, many Americans do. The Democratic talking point that says John McCain has been in Washington a long time and so can't be part of the CHANGE that is needed falls flat for the simple reason that for years the media has treated him like a maverick who was not well liked by his own party. That is the reputation he has earned for good or bad. In this election, it is for good (for him and the GOP). Just so, Palin has the same rep and her 80% public approval in Alaska makes the other Dem talking point--she is a scary right winger who is business as usual on economic matters, also fall flat.

Anyway, if Sarah is so terrible and so unattractive to independents, what are you worried about? It reminds me of the line from Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Yes, you all sure do.

McCain-Palin are up 10 points over the Messiah and the Chia Pet amongst likely voters. Thanks for doing your part, Salon.

"Salon.com: Daily giving you new reasons to wish King Kaufman had his own website."

dragged out and sent to the news media and show them what nastiness really is, in case they forgot, and how they played a part in it.

I would actually like the Obama campaign to remind the public that "Gore Lies" was a lie, in case they forgot, and how Kerry's war record was trashed and most importantly how Bush's War was based on lies as stated by members of HIS OWN CABINET. Halliburton! People need to be REMINDED!

Bush = Lies = Corruption = Republicans

And, FORECEFULLY, not in quiet tones but the angry tones that equal the population's anger (and it's not just left wingers people....).

Palin is not even close to some drop kick. A LOT of Evangelicals are frankly, suspicious themselves. (A picture like this will turn them off however, folks....I mean, be a bit strategic....)

By the way, who is going to make sure Palin isn't wired for those debates (or even interviews?) Unless she goes through full airport security I wouldn't put anything past those evil people. It's not like it didn't happen before....

Stay on message, assholes. Nobody cares what you think is misogynist. Most of you wouldn't know a misogynist image if it strangled you with its apron strings. I'm looking at you AKA Smith. And to the rest of you would-be Obama supporters taking umbrage at Mr. Kamiya's siren song for the dominatrix set (a brilliant bit of reverse psychology on that crucial whip-and-ball-gag demographic), suck it the fuck up people! I don't want to read any letters about how Stupid Racist America blew this election for you when you assholes can't even show a united front against a candidate as weak as McCain. Jesus Christ. It's like herding cats! And you wonder why the Republicans spank your bright red baboon asses every four years.

As much as I hate Sarah Palin for almost everything she stands for, this article and the picture that accompanies it are so egregiously sexist, I'm shocked to see it here. There are so many legitimate issues to write about with her. Why compromise your integrity with this blatantly sexist bullshit?

McCain-Palin are up with the Viagra set and will go down again, once the drug wears off which it will very soon.

Like many I'm sure, I just can't bring myself to read this article. That's probably for the best.

Come on Obama/Biden, where's the ad that spends twenty seconds on a highlight reel of Palin's extremist hits most likely to bother every day Americans then ends with the voice over, "A Republican governor from a large state in the White House? Haven't we seen this before? John McCain, more of the same" all while a picture of McCain and Bush standing together morphs into a picture of McCain and Palin standing together. This is too easy. The Dems need some balls.

Keep it up Salon, you are guaranteeing a GOP win. Man, what a pack of retards.

Dismiss her as an unworthy lightweight and move on. Every second we talk about Sarah Palin we are not talking about what a disaster the last eight years have been and how much better the next four can be.

I am taking the Salon RSS feed off my Yahoo home page this morning after reading this article. I am sick to death of the hate and vitriol spewing back and forth this election. This was not a piece of journalism, it was sensationalist writing. I will now avoid Salon for the same reason that I avoid Fox News.

Once again you obviously miss the point on hypocrisy.

I really tried. I told you she and the Clintonistas of Salon would do anything to keep Obama from the White House. She fed the right-wing for months with her obsession over Reverend Wright. Now she and her own harem of submissive men tosses them the red-meat proof of "liberal sexism." Gary Kamiya, absent of shame as ever, is yet another boy-toy (like Alex Koppelman) of the deranged racist Joan Walsh. If Rush Limbaugh isn't on the radio with this before I get to work this morning, I'll be very surprised, and will assume it's just because Koppelman hasn't emailed him the link yet. Having surrendered the hard-work of professional investigative journalism to the easy rewriting of tabloid stories and publication of gossip, Salon is no longer as "important" as it became during the Clinton and early Bush years. As Salon's readerships shrinks and the career cards for Joan Walsh get played (she's shopping around for more TV gigs, you know), the editrix will no doubt show signs of increasing desperation and decreasing civility. Pay attention, dwindling Salon audience of intelligent leftists who care: Joan Walsh opposes the election of Barack Obama, and will do anything, especially anything underhanded, within her diminishing editorial power to prevent it. When you poor bastards find yourselves standing in the shards of a campaign that once held high promise, you need not look at the third-party voters (as your leadership have pushed you to do in the past): no, you need look no further than Joan Walsh and her ilk, who would selfishly rather surrender hope and freedom in America than admit they were wrong.