By my count, this is Maureen Dowd's third attempt to mock
Sarah Palin (although maybe I've lost count and confused her
with Sally Quinn). MoDo suspiciously
manages to echo Obama's lipstick-on-a-pig remark:
Sarah, who is now so renowned that she is known merely
by one name and has a name ID of 90 percent, has to be a Kmart mom
who appeals to Kmart moms and dads. She's already shown that she
can shoot the pig, put lipstick on it, bring home the bacon and fry
it up in a pan. Now all she has to do is also prove that she can be
the leader of the free world on a moment's notice, and field dress
Putin as adeptly as she can a moose.
After devilishly mocking Obama -- and successfully getting into his
head -- with ads about how he was just a frothy celebrity, like
Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, it turns out all the McCain camp
wanted was an Obama of its own. Now that they have the electric
Palin, they've stopped arguing that celebrity is bad. All they do
is worship at her cult of celebrity.
When are the elite liberal media going to realize that their
obsession with Palin is actually helping the Republicans? There is
a figure of speech, derived from the works of Joel Chandler Harris,
for a situation where people allow themselves to get stuck in
something they can't get out of, but I wouldn't want to risk
offending anyone today.
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