I'm not a Sarah Palin supporter, but let's not as progressive people use sexist images to tear a woman down when it's convenient for our purposes. Imagine our outrage if the conservative media started dressing Hillary up in S&M drag!

Still...maybe it's better to leave your personal fantasies out of this. Just sayin'.

Kamiya. This gal is your worst nightmare. Anne Coulter in the shape of Ann Margret.

Cheers to Gary Kamiya for one of the most entertaining analyses of the Palin phenomenon yet! I never thought of her as a Domme, but it is plausible. To me she is more the girl jock.

Partisan background noise aside, I might point out two things: 1) The BDSM crowd is spread pretty evenly throughout the US; it just surfaces in New York and San Francisco. 2) "Dominant" is really a misnomer. The dominant in such a relationship generally serves the submissive by bringing him/her to a higher state of thrill via the spanking or bondage or what have you.

Finally, the artist who attached the corsetted body to Palin's head deserves a thank you note from the lady. After five kids, I doubt that she'll ever have a waist that tiny again.

Bathe in the hate. Drink it up.

Thanks for reducing a female candidate to a sexual object. We do need more of that. In fact, let's see photo-shopped images of Obama in a snazzy codpiece and an article with a sexual analogy about his poltical experience. That would really elevate the conversation about credentials.

Salon's all-out assault on Palin makes Libs seem anxious and desperate. Independent voters like me find ad hominem attacks pedestrian. I suppose they will continue through election day. So predictable.

So how about everyone voting for her instead of Obama or McCain?

She is respectable.

You can't say that about the other parties.

I see what Kamiya is driving at and his point is valid. Palins appeal derives from exactly what Kamiya is pointing at.

It's funny how the religious republicans need to be whipped up into a guilty frenzy to maintain their loyalty to the party. And funny is what Kamiya has made of this acquiesce.

Can we get back to talking about OUR nominee, Barack Obama?

Enough about Mistress Mooseburger, already.

Your post read, in part,

"I disagree with Sarah Palin on just about everything, but she's earned the right to her own opinions. She smart, she's politically savvy, she successfully juggles her career and her kids, and apparently she can deliver one heck of a speech."

I'd like to respond, here, to a couple of your assertions:

In your post, you state that Sarah Palin is "smart." Well, let's review, shall we?

Palin is an evangelical Christian who believes that the universe was created six thousand years ago; that would be, uh, let's see -- hang on while I get my calculator -- about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.

You additionally assert that Palin "successfully juggles her career and her kids." Hmmmm . . . again, let's look at her record.

In what can only be a direct reflection of her support for "abstinence-only sex education," Palin is now mother to an unwed, pregnant teenager. And, while there is a wide variety of criteria upon which a woman's success as a mother might be judged, I can tell you from personal experience that checking the box next to "unwed, pregnant teenage daughter" was not among the motherly "successes" to which I aspired.

Sarah Palin is a nitwit. And were she just a garden-variety nitwit who stayed at home & tended to her unwed, pregnant teenage daughter, I'm sure I couldn't care less about her obvious lack of brain power.

Unfortunately, such is not the case. Rather, Palin aims to bring her stupifyingly ignorant evangelical Christian zealotry to Washington, D.C., where, should she ever land in the oval office, she would work overtime to ensure that EVERY American public-school child be taught "abstinence-only sex education," creationism as a legitimate alternative to evolution, and a host of equally preposterous positions typically advanced by the boneheaded Christian nutbags of the lunatic fringe variety.

So please spare me your bullshit platitudes about Sarah Palin's "smarts" & "successes," & refrain from the lectures on how "I disagree with Sarah Palin on just about everything, but she's earned the right to her own opinions." The truth is that she & her feeble-minded ilk present the single most terrifying threat posed today to the future of this country & to the rights, privileges & freedoms currently taken for granted by America's asleep-at-the-wheel citizenry.

And make no mistake. Should McCain & Palin emerge victorious in November, those opinions, to which she has so "smartly" & "successfully" earned the right, will be employed by Palin and her fellow Christian pinheads in single-minded pursuit of the recasting of America as a Christian theocracy.

The time has arrived to WAKE THE FUCK UP & FIGHT THE THEOCRACY, before the Kool-Aid drinkers are in control of every aspect of our existence. Gary Kamiya not only didn't go too far in his criticism of Sarah Palin, he didn't go far enough.

Gee, Gary must've touched a nerve on the mouth breathers with this piece. I especially like the writers who say they won't read it, then go on to criticize it.

Brilliant article, Gary. Funny, snarky, and kicking the big lie spin machine right in the balls. Encore!

I think you are confused:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/

No mention of jews there.

They are putting the stink on Christians and Moslems.

Putting that stink on Palin too.

Stinks, don't it?

I think you are confused:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/

No mention of Jews there.

They are putting the stink on Christians and Moslems.

Putting that stink on Palin too.

Stinks, don't it?

Look at their policies not their media image. Obama has been unfairly categorized as nothing but a celebrity, Palin was obviously chosen to be McCain's V.P. running mate because she would have quasi-celebrity appeal. LOOK AT THEIR BELIEFS. LOOK AT THE POLICIES.