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'The Cut of His Jib'

By Robert Stacy McCain on 10.30.08 @ 10:10PM

Parodies of elite "conservative" pundit endorsements of Obama are the flavor du jour, and Iowahawk lays it on just a bit thick, but very juicy:

I mean, my God, this woman is simply awful; the elided vowels, the beauty pageantry, the guns, the crude non-Episcopal protestantism, the embarrassing porchload of children with horrifying hillbilly names, the white after Labor Day. As fellow conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan quipped to me the other day outside a Martha's Vineyard antique shop, it's gratifying to know the Gipper isn't alive to see what has become of his party. . . .
The idea of this dreadful woman in Washington is almost too much to contemplate. Not only would it be a fashion disaster, one can scarcely imagine the White House social calendar -- mooseburger fetes to that ghastly Joe the Plumber, perhaps followed by snow machine derbies through the Rose Garden?

This is essentially the anti-Palin argument, n'est-ce pas?

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Eric Dondero| 10.31.08 @ 7:43AM

And conservatives wonder why libertarians don't trust them? We're alwasy there for our conservative cousins in elections. But when one of our libertarians gets elevated, our conservative friends diss her, and downgrade her.

We'll remember this next time a conservative "ally" pushes a stack of brochures into our hands and asks us to walk a precinct or two.

Richard M| 10.31.08 @ 8:32AM

Somewhere, Chris Buckley is cringing.

Richard M| 10.31.08 @ 8:33AM

And Iowahawk remains a master of his trade. He's really outdone himself this election year.

Surly Duff| 10.31.08 @ 9:16AM

"This is essentially the anti-Palin argument, n'est-ce pas? "

Well, I guess that is the shallow anti-Palin argument, which is pretty much all the Beltway offers up for either side of the candidate slate. But if you think that such inane ramblings about Palin's wardrobe, her speech, and the names of her children are the only problems with Palin, then you are ignoring many of the unfavorable characteristics she has displayed since her selection as VP candidate.