Palin: One Canadian's Opinion

[lisasmall]

I was looking for something else when I ran across this at Heather Mallick's website. Mallick, a Canadian journalist whose columns are rarely seen outside Canada, has been getting battered by Faux News, the imps and minions of which are enchanted with her facetious aside in a recent piece asserting that Republican men are "sexual inadequates" -

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[thesmorphoros]

I'm not sure what you are getting at here, but it seems to me that if women failed to embrace SP, the old white guys sure have. I cite the recent Daily Show that sent staff to Wasilla to interview SP's neighbors and friends. The most creepy, of course, is the old guy who said "if she weren't married, I'd do her". Keith Olberman also has talked about smarmy GOP guys who swoon about her winking at them, and discuss her outfits and shoe choices. Also, there is the recent Google stats that show that Palin + nude photos is one of their top searches.

Excuse me, I need to take a shower.....

Palin's Hold On Old White Men, And Naked Politicians

[lisasmall]

Well! Thank you for giving me the platform from which to launch my "why some old white men love Palin" rant. :)

They do. And none more than McCain himself. I knew he was going to choose her as soon as her name came up, weeks before the convention, because John McCain never met a beauty queen he didn't like.He dated one in Brazil. His first wife was one. His second wife was Miss Something-or-Other, can't recall off-hand. One of his recent putative mistresses was a beauty queen? cheerleader? can't remember which. And there's the age thing

What I Was Getting At / Republican Sex

[lisasmall]

Whoops, in my age-rant, I forgot to answer your implicit query.

Mostly, I just wanted to post a perspective from north of the border, the latter, longer, quote, but as I researched it I fell into the dispute about the delicate feelings of Faux viewers regarding republican virility and skill, and so threw that in there also.

The sexual material obviously overwhelmed my initial intent, but I cannot resist any time Republicans start whining about sex, whether it's sexual assault, sex ed, abortion, contraception, expertise (!), adultery, orientation, or impotence. Drives me right out of my tree. As always, I assure you, I'd have no interest in their sexual or reproductive lives if they didn't keep trying to legislate mine.

Re: What I Was Getting At / Republican Sex

[belle_marmotte]

Oh amen to that!

[aislingtheach]

Wow, you've done a good amount of reading! ;) Your post, I must admit, is making me think quite a bit.

I realize I have a low tolerance level to argumentation that is not solid and rigourous, but lower still to sophisms of all kinds. However, I am very lenient when it comes to ranting pieces. That is, when ranting is done on my sideWhen I read Mallick's post, I gloated inwardly over some of her statements. But what makes it more acceptable than a similar piece done by someone from «an opposite side»? My first reflex would be to say «truth», because I know that a good part of it could be backed up - as you just did for the sexuality part. But then, my being confident it could be backed up is pretty much the same as the opposite side being confident it could back up its own claims. We each live in our own paradigms and what we bring forth to the surface of our discourses is usually «supported» by a series of «facts». Yes, I do think that in the end, there is a perspective that is stronger than the other, but it is not something that